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“It's the first time I say it!”

Article by Romeo Ene – published on Thursday, August 21, 2025, 09:31 / Updated Thursday, August 21, 2025 09:31

Gabi Torje (35 years old), former representative player from Dinamohe speaks for the first time about why he made a decision that attracted a lot of criticisms from the “dogs” supporters. On June 2, 2022, 4 days from first and only relegation in club historyThe “atomic dwarf” left Dinamo.

The right midfielder had returned for the third time in Stefan cel Mare in 2021, this time in one of the hardest situations in the history of the team.

With prohibition on transfers, little money and zero perspectives, this is how the dynamovists began the 2021-2022 season, the one who would represent a nightmare concluded with the relegation on May 29, 2022.

Gabi Torje explains for the first time why he left Dinamo after May 29, 2022: “I made the decision at 4 in the morning”

Torjeconsidered one of the “engines” of the team of that period, played 25 matches, scored 6 goals and offered 2 assists, but could not avoid the disaster.

In this regard, the supporters asked him to demonstrate character and devotion and remain in Liga 2, in the most terrible moments in the club's history, Torje being considered a true dynamo.

The decision to leave the club immediately left a bitter taste to the fans, who took it in the collimator on each occasion because he left.

More than three years after those events, asked about why he left “Corbia”, Torje claims that he was not left in Liga 2 because of the offensive messages that some supporters sent, on the evening of relegation.

They would have been taken by his father, who died three months before. It was the drop that filled the glass, and the right midfielder would have called Răzvan Zăvăleanu, the representative of the judicial administrator at that time, to announce that he was leaving.

“Why didn't I stay at Dinamo? Let's say, to make a summary. I made the decision at 4 in the morning, when I called Mr. Zăvăleanu and everyone.

I know, and everyone knows, as much as I did that year for Dinamo, leaving aside what I was doing on the field, how many things they were breaking on my head, as I was trying to hold the locker room, it was very difficult.

When the match was over, I received very, many messages with swearing, and many of them were about my father, who had died three months before.

In the morning, when I woke up, I talked to Mr. Zăvăleanu, I called him directly and I told him I didn't want to stay.

I do not think that I deserved at that moment to receive such messages and swearing, first of all related to my family, my grandchildren, my sister, my mother or anyone who was.

My father, who was dead, had no guilt. The fault was ours, of all, as players, “said Torje, on the show” Everything for Dinamo “.

This made me call me the next day and terminate my contract. For everyone who does not know, then I gave up all the money I had to take from Dinamo, the last three months.

I said so: “I do not want to make a paper to give me the money in December or next year and, because of me, there is a dispute against Dinamo, to lead to bankruptcy or a penalty of points.”

That's what I gave up. In 2019, when I returned, I gave up 300,000 euros from Turkey to come to Dinamo.

Gabi Torje Remember the last periods spent at Dinamo

“I would not have supported that in the next season I would come to the stadium and hear my family sworn by people who do not know how many sacrifices I made for the club.”

“There are things that many people have not seen, he does not know. But many of the supporters, a part that did not understand, thought that I wanted to happen, that I am to blame, that I did all these things with the relegation.

Torje's last experience at Dinamo na was a good one

However, you have to take the statistics of both matches in Cluj: we had 4 opportunities, they had 3 kits on the gate and 3 goals. I made very big mistakes and so I relegated. No one will keep in mind who was in the gate, who missed, who made the faults, what foreign players were at Dinamo.

Everyone will remember Torje, who returned to Romania at Dinamo and then left. That's why I left, because I would not have been supported in the next season to come to the stadium and hear my family sworn in people who do not know how many sacrifices I made for the club.

I didn't do it to know someone, it's the first time I say these things, I never talked. I did it strictly because that's how I felt, not to pick up someone statue“Added Torje.

Somehow I owed this explanation. I never offered it, it wasn't the time. I wanted to do this and tell the moment when I thought I would announce my withdrawal.

Then I will explain a lot more and answer all the questions that will be asked.

Gabi Torje

169 matches28 goals and 31 assists gathered Gabi Torje at Dinamo, in the three periods of “Groapa”: 2008-2011, 2017-2018 and 2021-2022

With the magnifying glass on Gabi Torje's CV: Here are the “dwarf” terminals:

  • He debuted in the first league on April 28, 2006, in Poli Timișoara – FC Argeș 0-0. He has collected 39 appearances and two goals in the Banat T -shirt;

  • He went to Dinamo for two million euros, spending more than three years in Stefan cel Mare, between 2008 and 2011. No conquered trophy with “dogs”, missing a title and a cup;

  • declared “footballer of the year” 2011 in the Investigation of the Sports Gazette. In the summer of that year, he transferred to Udinese for 5 million euros. The balance of Udine: 22 matches, two goals;

  • He also played in La Liga, ticking 35 appearances and 3 goals for Granada and 15 other matches in Espanyol's shirt;

  • He lost contact with the west in the second part of his career, marked by experiences in Turkey, Greece and Chechnya;

  • He returned two lines to Dinamo (2018 and 2021). Last time, he was part of the team that relegated to the second league;

  • It remains an important footballer in the recent history of the first representative, in the shirt of which he has collected 56 matches and 12 goals. He debuted with Răzvan Lucescu and checked the last call during Daum. “Torjinho” has evolved in all three matches of the “tricolors” from Euro 2016;

  • It has a champion medal with the Constanta Lighthouse, for which it has registered 3 times in 16 matches in the title season of “sailors”;

  • The last two years of his career have meant the regress, Torje evolving in the 2nd League in Romania, at Concordia Chiajna and Muscelul Câmpulung;

  • He is currently an analyst Digi Sport.

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