Article by Maria Olteanu – Published on Sunday, August 31, 2025, 22:46 / Updated on Sunday, August 31, 2025:49
Cristi Balaj (54 years old), the president of CFR Cluj, saw the red card directly a few seconds before The break of the match between CFR and FCSB, score 2-1 in favor of the hosts, after the first 45 minutes of play.
The match in Gruia brought face to face two suffering teams, both on the dam before the match. And the position in the standings generated tension, which felt at many times along the confrontation.
Cristi Balaj, removed directly after cursing the assistant referee
CFR Cluj opened the scoring, and FCSB equalized from the point with lime. The last word of the first part had the whole host team, which did 2-1, and immediately after the goal the official of the Cluj was eliminated, due to an incident that took place on the aisle from the locker room.
In the 45+1 minute, Șfaiț shot from the edge of the box, Târnovanu rejected, but Emerlahu was on the stage and pointed his head. Before this phase, Mihai Popescu did on the edge of the box on Louis Munteanu, and the Cluj people asked for a second yellow card for it, who had already seen the first warning in the 27th minute.
The “central” Sebastian Colțescu allowed the game to continue, without returning to Popescu's foul, which disturbed Balaj, who, on the aisle to the locker room, had a nervous crisis and brought insults to the cough.
Colțescu did not tolerate something like this and he directly eliminated. To grant the second yellow card in the lime room you could not intervene.
