Article by Romeo Ene – Published on Friday, August 08, 2025, 21:03 / Updated on Friday, 08 August 2025 21:06
Gabriel Manu (43 years old), the former “second” of Laurențiu Reghecampf (49 years old), was questioned about the technician's choice. He took over Al Hilal OmduMmanSudan's champion, a country with serious problems due to a civil war.
Despite this aspect, Reghecampf He claims he has good conditions in Sudan, being protected from poverty and conflicts. Not the same opinion is Manu, the one who told a shocking event that happened in Sudan.
It happened in 2019, when Reghecampf was “main” at Al-Wasl Dubai, a band from the United Arab Emirates, and Manu “Second”.
Gabi Manu, Horror memory in Sudan, with Reghecampf head coach: “I saw the poverty”
Manu remembered a sad episode, spent in 2019. Al-Wasl Dubai then had a match in Sudan, and what happened that day to marry Reghecampf's former collaborator.
“It is his choice, I cannot comment. Everyone chooses what he wants to do in his career and where he wants to go. I couldn't comment, just that this memory rushed me. It's something I couldn't believe there's in this world.
Everyone chooses how he wants to go further in his career. To give God to go out and to have the success he deserves.
God forbid! (no – if they would accept an offer from Sudan). It's an unpleasant memory for me. In 2019, I was Reghecampf's assistant at Al-Wasl, in Dubai, and I played in an international competition. I played the first match at home and won it with 2-0. And the second match I played in Sudan. I lost 2-1.
I had an unpleasant experience. From the moment you arrive in Sudan, you have the feeling that all the diseases of the world enters you. God, it's a harsh poverty there. I was shocked. I think it was the worst thing that happened to me in my life and I would never want to get there, ”Manu said, for slot.ro.
“They started breaking stones and throwing into us”
In addition, Manu claims that the entire stadium began to throw stones, and after the match the bus was broken. The club has mobilized extreme protection, with gendarmes and personal plane, so that things do not degenerate.
“We scored the qualification goal in the 90th minute. At that time, the entire stadium, 20,000 people, started breaking stones and throwing into us. Actually, they were breaking stones from the stadium. I stayed for an hour in the middle of the lawn. There was an ambush of gendarmes around us. I didn't think we were out of there.
They also broke the window of the bus. The sheik that owns the club sent the personal plane after us. And our hotel was full of gendarmes, we were not allowed to leave the rooms, ”Manu added.
For me, it was sad at the same time. I really saw the problems of life, I saw what poverty looks like in this world. I couldn't figure out what those people were wrong were born in that poverty. From that moment I told myself that I do not want to reach such places.
– Gabi Manuabout the experience in Sudan
