“Do you know what I was doing when Dănciulescu fell in Dâmbovița?” + “Woman naked on the shirt …”
Article by Alexandru Barbu, Răzvan Stamatiu – published Tuesday, August 05, 2025, 14:15 / Updated Tuesday, 05 August 2025 14:15
Invited to the GSP podcast “2 to 1”Vlad Munteanu, the current sports director of the Romanian Football Federation, acknowledges that at “stole” Bucharest in the early 2000s, when he left Bacăul to sign with Dinamo. What is the biggest “stupidity” he did and where was when Ionel Dănciulescu was falling in Dâmbovița by car?
“I liked to go out, to socialize, to enjoy life and the presence of friends and girls. There were times when I exaggerated, but I learned my lessons,” says Vlad Munteanu, former champion with Dinamo.
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“Bucharest was another world then, with an active social life. You could go out in the city every day of the week. Now it is no longer. At Planters, in Amzei Square, it was the exact time. It was a show, you could not enter. We all met: Lobonț, Pancu, Chivu.
“The biggest stupidity I did? When I showed, after a goal, a shirt with a naked woman. Now I would get alone for this, as my father beat me then, ”said Vlad Munteanu.
Vlad Munteanu, at Podcastul GSP “2 to 1”, photo: Ionuț Iordache (gsp.ro)
If we gather the young players from 4 football clubs and compare what they are doing now with what we were doing, we do not reach the nail at the little finger. It's not something to praise, so were the times. Paparazzi were not like now, people didn't judge you so aggressive …
– Vlad Munteanu, at Podcastul GSP “2 to 1”
“Victor Becali told us that Dănciulescu fell in Dâmbovița”
In the spring of 2002, Ionel Dănciulescu, a colleague with Vlad Munteanu in Dinamo, had a road accident, had a car, a Mitsubishi Pajero, in Dâmbovița, at midnight, on a Saturday. The excessive speed and the slippery road designed the car on the sidewalk, the car flying over the safety fence next to the Ciurel bridge. Dănciulescu came out of the car through the left window, then was taken by a passerby to the University Hospital.
“Do you remember when Dănciulescu fell in Dâmbovița by car? That night, I was with Giani Kiriță and Adrian Mihalcea, at the baby and Victor Becali. When I saw him leaving, I asked him where he was going and replied: “I go to the hospital, that Dănciulescu dropped by car in Dâmbovița.”
Immediately we went after him to the hospital, to support him. We had nothing to do with Dănciulescu then, we just went to the hospital to support him. Camaraderie from the perspective of the locker room. Victor knew where we were, Giovanni sent us a bottle of champagne, mystery Dinu the same. The pursuit began when the Craiova lot came ”, recalls Vlad Munteanu.
Integral podcast | “2 to 1” with Vlad Munteanu:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBBW1QD_M8
About Vlad Munteanu:
- In Romania he played in Bacău, Dinamo, FC National and Chiajna;
- Outside it has evolved for Energy Cottbus, VFL Wolfsburg, Auxerre, Arminia Bielefeld, FSV Frankfurt and ErzgeBirge AUE;
- It has 13 goals and 8 assists in 58 appearances in the Bundesliga;
- 6 trophies has won throughout his career, all with Dinamo: two titles (2002 and 2004), 3 Cups of Romania (2001, 2003, 2004) and one Super Cup (2005);
- For his transfers, 3 million euros were paid;
- He was the president of U Cluj between 2013 and 2015;
- Since 2016 he has been working at the Federation, now he is the sports director of the forum.
