Article by Daniel Grigore – published Tuesday, August 26, 2025 22:35 / Updated Tuesday, August 26, 2025 22:35
Mircea Lucescu, 80, commented on Cristi Chivu's debut on Inter A -Series, O convincing victory with Turin5-0.
Cristi Chivu is just the second Romanian coach in Inter history. The other, Mircea Lucescu, the current coach of Romania, followed the debut in the championship and showed confident that the former defender will do a good job on the Nerazzurra bank.
Mircea Lucescu, after the sensational debut in the championship for Cristi Chivu: “I am convinced that he will be listened to at Inter”
“It is an extraordinary thing, the debut is always very important, especially on a big team, as it is inter. I am glad for him and I am convinced that he will have a very good course. It is a team with players with great experience, plays spectacular and efficient football.
I am convinced that he will be listened to, even if the players he has available have a lot of international experience. I am convinced that together they will make a competitive group, which will definitely target the Champions League and the Championship.
He has gained quite a lot of experience, played at the highest level and this is the most important. He became a coach at a club he was successful, he has an extremely rich bag of knowledge.
To this is added the fact that he was a very good player, he played in a defensive position, where he saw the whole game, so he is more balanced. He will be supported, he has behind him, a guy with a great experience at the highest level.
I don't see why he couldn't succeed. Has personality, is respected. When you have such a long career, especially in the same champion, it is impossible for players to not respect it.
For now, it has started very well and deserves greetings for it. I had [sub comanda mea] A very important player in that group, on Mkhitaryan, an extremely intelligent and very experienced player, with whom he can work very well, “Lucescu told Digisport.
Mircea Lucescu, about Cristi Chivu: “I wanted to come to the national team, to be next to him”
In the same telephone intervention, the coach revealed that he wanted Chivu with him, at the first representative. Obviously, the move did not materialize.
“It's true. I wanted him to come, and I'm beside him, but things didn't [concretizat]. He would have been the coach, and I beside him. He the trainer on the ground.
The years he spent in Primavera, Inter's youth team, I think they helped him to understand what he has to do. The parma came with a lot of security.
It is great to know how to make decisions at the right time. And he did it. And for Inter it was necessary, according to Simone Inzaghi, to come a former player opposite to which there was a special respect. And Inter knows how to appreciate Chivu ”, added Lucescu.
