Article by Maria Olteanu – published on Saturday, September 6, 2025 20:39 / Updated on Saturday, September 6, 2025 21:04
Marius Șumudică (54 years old) analyzed the situation of Louis Munteanu (23 years), an attacker who is going through a complicated period and missed the chance to play in the national shirt on Friday evening, in failure 0-3 of the friend with Canada.
Șumudică charged him for the way he managed the last period, in which he was involved in extensive discussions regarding his presence at CFR Cluj, unhappy that he did not catch a transfer to a top championship.
Șumudică is of the opinion that what is happening now is a punishment for the Cluj striker, who has to draw as a result of everything he has done recently and considers that only respecting training and training will be able to become an important player, who will transfer abroad, as he wants.
Louis Munteanu was not forgiven by Marius Șumudică
“Forget what happens to Louis Munteanu. Exactly what I say about so many shows. What does these syncopes mean in preparation, what your attitude towards football means. When you take your toys and go and do not come to workouts, football punishes you.
The only one who loses is him, not someone else. Neither the national team, that the national team is in a player. Maybe the owner of CFR, because he has invested some money, but the only one who loses is him. When he understands he has to give more football, football will reward him
Given that Mircea Lucescu had no other solutions, he tried to help him. The big majority of the attackers who play in Romania are foreigners. As long as you are unrivaled, such things happen. When you ask your body to give you more than you can, it has no place to give it. It's like you get on a trabant and you want to get to Ploiești in 30 minutes, you have no, it has no where to give”, Said Șumudică, quoted by Fanatik.ro.
He is an untrained type, he is a player who is not at a maximum level capacity to take a 90 -minute game. He disappears a lot from the game, he is upset, he shakes his hands, he doesn't suit him. These manifestations only download it emotionally.
He must understand. I am sorry why he has talent … we still say he is young, but others … I do not sit with Yamal or others, but this was his best time. All these things with 15 million, 12 million, upsets it. There are external factors that lead to this involution. At the moment he descends much to what he was
– Marius Șumudică, about Louis Munteanu
Louis Munteanu was injured in heating before Romania – Canada / Photo: Cristi Preda GSP
Louis Munteanu has left the national cantonment
FRF announced on Saturday afternoon through an official statement that Louis Munteanu has left the national team cantonment And it will not be available for the match with Cyprus from the preliminaries for the 2026 World Championship.
The medical investigations have shown that the striker of CFR Cluj suffered a muscle injury to the left leg. Mircea Lucescu, the national team, decided not to call another striker in his place.
