“Let's not say public!”

Vochin reconstructs for the first time the negotiations with Becali since 2007, when he held the position of deputy editor -in -chief of Gazeta Sports, a coach at FCSB – at that time, the team was called Steaua – it was Gică Hagi, and Becali wanted to strengthen the team. With an official transferred from the press.

Vochin declined a consistent amount, but also an absolutely amazing requirement.

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– The offer from Steaua. I read about a 3 -hour discussion at the palace with Gigi Becali, salary 100,000 euros. Is the story real?
– I don't know if it's good to say what function or how exactly the discussion was then. But I think Mr. Gigi Becali would be pleased to say, because his reign is the same. I mean – what you tell him, he can't find everyone. And then I think I'll say.

– That's right.
– Also through Tolontan, my petitioner, it happened. He called Tolo to tell him if he could talk to me. I think he had no phone number either. And he called me. The style of his reign: “To come, because I want to take you. Ready, I take you to Steaua!”. “Stay, sir, a little.” I, analytically. I had met him again. From the post-Patron posture. But not only, but also from the position of friend with MM. We were together in many moments and it was like it. For example, I found myself when Zenga was changed. I got into the Marriott office. Returning …

– Please.
– I asked him, “What should I do at Steaua?”. And his answer … He says: “You come to learn football on Hagi!”. Hagi was the team coach. And then I didn't know what to do! “Mr. Becali, please do not say this public. How to say so?! And how do I teach football on Hagi?! God forbid …”.

– And how did he continue?
– “Come on, good, father, leave! Come to me at the palace and talk, because I do not know what …”. I went there and it was a guy, Virgil seemed to him, that was called, a house of the house. And that gentleman received me at the palace, the first and only time I was at the palace. He had begun: “Tomorrow, we do that, Dregem, we see, we have a meeting with I do not know who.” Lord, stay a little … “. “No, no, the employer comes now, he is gone, but he has asked me to …”. Finally, I stayed for a quarter of an hour until Mr. Becali appeared.

– and the negotiation begins.
-He presented my whole palace, he showed me: “Look how beautiful it is, with gold around here.” I had the bad inspiration to make a comparison with the Republic House. “Come on, good, this, this is gold, good, I don't know which …”. “But let's see what I could help you.” Said the same thing (no – about Hagi). “Please be nice, you never say. I don't want to have a job.” How can you think that ever?!

– And publicly never said. He listened to you.
– Yes. I do a bracket now. There was another discussion through an intermediary, after many, many years, had won the future in front of him. “You see that I was right? There was no need for someone to learn football. Hagi knows enough football.”. “Come on, good, my father, I beat him!” As he is, with his charm.

– Financial side …
-Becali had a mini-chief when Tolo told Tolo to give me a lot. Because it was a period when, in the press, a lot of money was earned. The advertising market had exploded and I had many collaborations. GSP TV had appeared, comment matches, I had a show of mine. It is certain that I, in that year, won somewhere at 100,000 euros, cumulative. That was the amount that Mr. Becali would have offered me to come to Steaua. That's what Tolontan told Tolontan and this told me when I was at the palace. Tolontan transmitted, moreover: “You see that I do not think you are convinced with it.” “You can't! You, in the press, even so …?!”. “This is the situation. That you can't buy us again, if you are going to be.

– But you touched nothing?
– Standing about 3-4 hours on a terrace, there, saying wishes and unvacted, he tried to come with other arguments. I was looking at how smart it is, the man feels very good. When he saw that the story with the money did not affect me, it started: “Go with the team in so many trips, abroad.” “Domne, I, abroad, honestly, I like to go with my family. And abroad I went with the newspaper and I tell you that there are many moments when you see the airport, the hotel, the stadium and so on.”

– At that time you even went frequently in travel with the star.
– Exactly. And it's a chance to say. I had been with them at the match with Betis, on a return. I had a very good relationship with Oli, at that time. I had written a material a few days before the Sevilla match, after a championship game, and I had said that the team did not pass how it should pass. Obviously, it is not suitable for anyone, no matter how friend you are, to criticize him. And he began to tell me: “Look why we don't pass, because we train now in the rear parking, the lands are unavailable …”. And, on the way to Sevilla, on the plane, I stayed near Oli. He was with the open laptop, with the monitoring company, insat or digital panini, that I was also inspired by the tactic niche.

– Probably Becali observed you.
“Yes, he passed a few times there, he saw us and he told me: “Yes, me, but you saw when we were at Betis and we qualified with them, how you worked with oli, you were with your papers, your statistics, oli with his … Didn't you have the feeling that you contributed 2-3% to victory?”. That, I tell you honestly, touched me! Because beyond money, you are part of a process. That process refers to your passion for a lifetime, which is football, and from that process you manage to gain a gain for your country and enjoy tens of thousands of people … well, in the case of Star, half the country is happy, half saddles.

25 years old I saw some things, I wrote about them, I said how it could be. And I thought I could implement some ideas. With that he touched me and I think I am convinced me and Răzvan Burleanu.

– Andrei Vochin, at Podcastul GSP “2 to 1”

“However, you refused.”
– Because I like predictability. I don't feel good in situations that change from day to day, never. I don't change the jobs too often. That was my way of being. Or, to enter football with certain characters … There is a risk that today you will be, and tomorrow you will not be.

Vochin na signed with FCSB, Hagi was going to quarrel with Becali

Gică Hagi was the red-blue coach at the beginning of the 2007-2008 season. The “king” qualified in the Champions League groups on FCSB, after the victories in the preliminaries with Zaglebie (3-1 overall) and Bates Borisov (4-2). In groups, he resisted on the bench, a single party, the failure with Slavia Prague (1-2), then resigned following a scandal with the owner Gigi Becali.

Hagi, at the return match in Ghencea, Steaua – beats 2-0 / photo: GSP archive

“2 to 1” with Andrei Vochin, today, 6:00 pm. The main topics addressed:

• when he violated the laws of journalism;
• What he faced after he chose to accept Răzvan Burleanu's proposal to become a federation counselor;
• Long -term FRF strategy;
• The choice of Daum and the U21 rule, implemented at Vochin's idea;
• The amazing offer received from Gigi Becali to sign with the Star;
• What another owner of Liga 1 wanted to call him directly a coach;
• Which team does Andrei Vochin last with?
• The contractions with the friend Mihai Stoica;
• proposed to Șumudică to introduce a player on the field. The brilliant replica of the coach;
• FCSB is Steaua? As Vochin responds, the author of the book “Supersteaua”;
• The “Ciufuleala” he received at home, after a show “Stage process”;
• Dream Andrei Vochin's team: the best 5 journalists he worked with;
• Conflicts with Hagi, Cornel Dinu, Lupescu;
• why he says that Tudor Chirilă fascinated.

About Andrei Vochin:

• “The best journalist between football people and the best football man between journalists”;
• He made his debut as a journalist at the Romanian Sport, in 1991;
• In 1997 he transferred to ProSport;
• Since 2003 he has worked in the Sports Gazette, until 2014, when he became the councilor of FRF president Răzvan Burleanu;
• On TV he debuted in 1995, on Canal 31, who became ProTV;
• One of the protagonists of the show “The process of the stage”, the historical production made by Ovidiu Ioanițoaia at the Lyziera of the 2000s;
• Permanent guest at Realitatea, GSP TV, Digi Sport, etc.