Article by Remus Dinu – published Wednesday, September 10, 2025, 14:45 / Updated Wednesday, September 10, 2025 2:45 pm
Rodion Cămătaru, 67, the former great striker of Romania, offers, in an interview with the Gazeta of the Spot on Wednesday, his explanations for the regress of the national team in recent months. The “tricolors” were laughed in Cyprus, 2-2escaping a victory between our fingers that would have kept us in books in the perspective of “fire” matches, when we will meet Austria and Bosnia.
The great Rodion Cămătaru, one of the most valuable attackers in the history of Romanian football, inclined to put the last results of the national team on account of the modest level of the internal championship. It is the main cause identified by Cămătaru when he talks about the deficiencies displayed lately by the first representative.
Rodion Cămătaru, Verdict Unknown: “The championship is modest, we have no valuable footballers”
“We should wonder where all this comes from and I would start with the Romanian Championship! If you analyzed you will see that it is less and more weaker! It's a very modest championshipneither CFR nor FCSB do not succeed …
It's also a lack of values, in my opinion. We have no valuable footballers in the internal competition! Although, in a match with Cyprus, this should not be seen, the last time I beat 3-0, 4-1 …
To have 2-0, I thought an easy victory was expected … Indeed, Cyprus had a very good performance with Austria, with a match before.
It's painful, but We should be realists in the way our champion looks, a modest one. We no longer have players to evolve in big teams, there are many things that should be thought. We have reached the level where we have problems with teams like Cyprus, Bosnia, we arrived there, with them … ”, said Cămătaru, in the interview given to the newspaper.
Should Mircea Lucescu resign from the Romanian national?
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“Cami” would continue to rely on Lucescu: “A resignation would not do well, no one would come now!”
Beyond the “Vârtejul” who took the national team up and implicitly on the coach Mircea Lucescu, Rodion Cămătaru believes that the 80 -year -old technician should be kept in office until he is exhausted with the last qualification for the World Championship:
“I would even congratulate him on the fact that he took the team of Romania at the beginning … I really surprised that he came, he certainly had other possibilities.
I was expecting that it would not be easy with Mircea Lucescu, because it is not a Messiah, to do overnight.. No matter how inspired, football is unpredictable! Anyone to come and no matter who they would use, there would still be people to ask: “Why didn't you use others?” This is always the case!
I would continue to leave Mircea Lucescu and I think it will be, until he would exhaust every chance of qualification. It was also bad luck, let's not forget that we had the chance now, at this match, to make 3-1 … At this moment, a resignation would not do well. It would be very difficult for the one who would come, no one would come in a moment like this, “added Cămătaru, a former player with 74 matches and 21 goals under the tricolor.
Last year, it was a qualification that gave us hopes, but we have to get back, to see what we do with the chances that exist at this time. From this area, from this group, I don't think we can get something else. Only through the “dam” should we manage to go to a world championship. Hope death last!
– Rodion Cămătaru
198 goalsRodion Cămătaru succeeded in Division A, during 15 seasons, in Craiova's T -shirt and Dinamo
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