Article by Daniel Grigore – published on Saturday, August 16, 2025, 23:18 / Updated on Saturday, August 16, 2025 23:19
Dan Petrescu, 57 years old, was suspended 3 matches As a result of the elimination from the latest championship match, CFR Cluj – Craiova University 2-3. Before the match with FC Botosani, the coach of the team from Gruia showed dismayed by the severity of the Romanian referees.
Towards the end of the match against the white-blue, Dan Petrescu broke out, considering that his team should have received a penalty. His access to anger, materialized in screams and swearing, challenged the “central” Rareș Vidican to eliminate him. That was just the coach of the CFR, who almost jumped to the referee.
For that scene, Dan Petrescu was suspended for 3 matches. He will not be able to drive from the bank the championship duels with FC Botosani and FCSB, respectively the travel from Galați.
to the pre -prior press conference The first of this match, Petrescu was dismayed by the unit of measure with which the Romanian referees judge, compared to the foreign ones, who arbitrate him in the European Cups.
Dan Petrescu, about the suspension of 3 matches: “I have never been eliminated in the European Cups!”
“Three stages, yes. I didn't expect it, honestly. I don't know if you look at the matches in Europe. I think I have 60-70 and I was never eliminated, only once I took yellow. And I do the same things, don't believe that I behave differently. At the match with Braga from home, what I did there, I also entered the field. They just said to me, “Stay, stay there.”
In Romania, when I see you a little, directly red. I don't even talk to you, to tell you why. Then give you 3 stages … We need to make decisions [raportându-ne la] This championship. It was the first deviation.
I know that others received a stage, two, but it's good when you give Petrescu 3 stages, it sounds good. Especially since CFR is going through a harder period “, the” bursuc “was crying the day before the visit of Botosani.
Dan Petrescu: “The match with Botosani, like a final”
Also at the press conference, Petrescu emphasized the importance of the Sunday match:
“I realize that a very difficult match awaits us, because they have a very fast, aggressive, very good team in attack. Let's see what players I will find prepared for this match, a very, very important one. For me it is like a final in the championship, even if there comes an equally important European match. The most important match is next, and this is the one with Botoșani.
We are not well in the championship, I think I haven't been in this position since I am a coach and I feel very bad in this position. I hope the players understand. Let's no longer find apologies. Even if we arrived at 4 in the morning [din Portugalia]this is the reality, we have nothing to do. “
