Romania is looking for a selector. Mircea Lucescu would be set aside just to make room for Gică Hagi

Without direct qualification hope for the World Football Championship, Mircea Lucescu is considering leaving Gică Hagi's place.

Lucescu and Hagi, both on a single bank

The Romanian football national team could have another selection next month, when two matches are scheduled, the friendly with Moldova (October 9) and, three days away, the official match with Austria. As both games are on their own ground, the pressure on the current coach will be a huge one, given that it is already challenged on social networks. The uncertain future of the national team, with the perspective of a dam in March, could bring a change on the tricolor bench. As the current campaign is compromised, the new coach would have time to make his strategy for the spring duel. When talking about the new coach, all roads lead to Gică Hagi (60 years old), who took a sabbatical year and remained only a owner.

Negotiations have been

The “king” was also in negotiations with FRF, and with the current, but also with the former leadership. In 2011, Hagi came out of the negotiations with Mircea Sandu (72 years old), exposing his career motto: “I decided not to make a decision on the road, when things are started. I don't want that.” A team on the road is now national. Then he refused Răzvan Burleanu (41 years old) saying he is too involved in the future/Lighthouse. It is no longer the case now. In the public discussions after the game with Cyprus, 2-2, Mircea Lucescu mentioned that he is willing to put aside only to make room for Gică Hagi, to whom he bears a special respect: “If Gică Hagi can come, with the greatest pleasure I go aside. If he has this desire, this ambition, I would be very easy for him. No problem“Then, warned him:”Gică must calculate that he is not allowed to make a mistake. I can do again, but he is no longer allowed to do. It's a moment of change of generations. Don't think things are simple“Hagi has not yet been pronounced if he wants to national at this time. And even if he would like to work with Lucescu technical director.

Wave of challenges

The result of Cyprus opened discussions about the succession to the “throne” of the national team. Mircea Lucescu seemed to remain, but the spectators' reaction to the two October parties could drive him away. However, the public's credit for “Il Luce” seems to be completed. He thinks that leaving at this moment would be a failure. The team's game is sad, under the one in Edy's mandate, the one he found appropriate to criticize him after taking over the national team. Mircea Lucescu gives the impression that he holds his chair teeth, considering that the departure would be a failure. On the Facebook account of the national team, at the post dedicated to the draw from Nicosia, the supporters ask in the chorus the resignation of “Il Luce”, nicknamed “Mircea cel Bătrân”, but also the departure of the chiefs from “Casa Football”, in front of Răzvan Burleanu. The technician, learned with strong challenges from Dinamo Kiev, does not want to give up, because, proud, he does not like to recognize himself. But people ask Unison to leave, reproaching his chaotic changes in the match with Cyprus.

Hagi, asked by the public

In a discussion with his friend, Ovidiu Ioanițoaia, the director of the Sports Gazette, Mircea Lucescu said: “If there is a viable version, I go aside. I do not want to keep the chair, but I am not cowardly. As long as there are chances, for occupying the 2nd place in the group or at the dam, I am not. that I should resign. ” With 3 left matches in the group, Romania is on 3, with 7 points, 5 behind Austria and Bosnia. The Austrians played only 4 matches. It seems that the reputed technician is prepared a hostile atmosphere in the game with Austria, on October 12, from the “National Arena”. Lucescu left in the previous term of national office after a victory with Austria. The supporters ask in unison on the bank of the Tricolor Gică Hagi, who is free of contract after leaving Farul Constanța. In the recent past, he refused FRF, motivating that he has a job with the club team. Now, the job can no longer be invoked at any negotiations. If he came to the national team, the “king” has the chance to work again with his son, Ianis (26 years old), recently transferred to the Turkish band Alanyaspor, as in the Viitorul period, where the “prince” quickly received the captain's banner from his father.

“King” has a revenge to take

As a coach, Hagi held a dam match with the national team, in 2001, with Slovenia, missing the qualification at the 2002 World Cup, from South Korea and Japan. He resigned after invoking the fact that he was left alone by the leadership of the Federation at that time, in front of former president Mircea Sandu. In March 2026, the tricolors would suffer another qualifying dam at the Supreme Final Tournament, a competition from which the national team has been absent since 1998, while Hagi was driving it. Other names conveyed by Facebook supporters are Cristian Chivu (44 years old), under contract with Inter Milan, and Dan Petrescu (57 years old), free after the separation of CFR Cluj.

Selector's confession: “I was wrong”

Shortly after the match with Cyprus, Mircea Lucescu acknowledged that he was wrong that he sent the same first 11. Although, immediately after the game, he said he did everything he depended on him to be successful. It remained a nebula that in Nicosia he used the same first 11 in the bankruptcy with Canada, 0-3. “Il Luce” revealed that everything was made from sentimentality to the players who led Romania to the European Championship in Germany. “When I put the friend with Canada, we didn't know anything about them. I didn't know they had so many players in Europe. I thought about playing with the second team, but then I thought we hadn't seen each other for three months. I said I have to give a chance to the boys who played at the European Championship, who changed the teams this summer and have become holders. I regret that I was too sentimental and I couldn't make some decisions. Maybe then I should have come back and make a team for this match and another for the match with Cyprus. These are us, we do not go to a direct beating. We are smarter, we have a technical quality, we were considered the European Brazilians before. It is a change of generation, you see that. I was sentimental and considered that the players who took us to the euro can take us to the World Championship. Unfortunately, a situation intervened in which many of them got injured and did not play. Maybe I should have done otherwise, to put another team with Canada and another with Cyprus. I agree, I was wrong. From sentimentality. At that time it was not resolved, something had to enter with personality”, Admitted Mircea Lucescu.

“Lucescu is like Messi”

Gigi Becali (67 years old) gently consciously consisted Mircea Lucescu. “My opinion: he is an age, we love him, we respect him and he must be left with dignity, to love him further. And now we don't talk bad things about him. We do not comment that it is Lucescu. He should be worthy of how he was all his life up to 80 years. To say. That's how he should do, my opinion. I do not ask Lucescu's resignation. I can't afford it. I have no quality of this in football. Of course, the one who is our best coach, at this time free of contract and who can come, is Gică Hagi. There is also Olăroiu, who demonstrated, but he cannot come. The only one is Gică. He knows all the players. He made shit. He took the championship twice with the lighthouse. It's something in the field of fantastic. I do not mean more out of respect for Lucescu. When it comes to Lucescu we have to fade our opinion. Do you have no respect for a man who up to 80 has done something around the world? All the performances he had … when you have an age … it's all up to an age. He looks young. It looks 60 years old, not 80. I don't mean more. I think Lucescu I think we have to look at how Messi is in football. That was Maradona, Pelé, Neymar. But Messi is no longer born. Maybe Yamal, if he leads a sporting life … so is Lucescu. Like Lucescu there is no Romanian coach. It was no one like him. Has done performance throughout Europe. No one was born like him so far. E number 1. We want to remain number 1. Not to put a stain“, Becali said, according to Fanatik.

Why didn't you use Baiaram and Mitriță

Mircea Lucescu explained to Gigi Becali and, through the public dialogue, the fans of the national reasons why he ignored Stefan Baiaram (22 years) and Alexandru Mitriță (30 years), considered in great form at Craiova University and from Zhejiang Professional FC (China), at the match with Cipru. If about Baiaram he said he was not baked for such a test, Mitriță reproaches him that he is tactically messy and does not do the defensive phase. “In connection with Baiaram, I talked to him and see him a component of the national team for a very long period. And he understood too. The problem is that I see him all the time tied to his knees. It was hard to put pressure on a young player in such a decisive match. He was not even at the European Youth Championship. But he's a sensational player. I like it a lot. Regarding Mitriță … Mitriță takes his eyes. If you make an aesthetic judgment, take your eyes. Because he is a very technical player and who can bring important moments. But we need to see the other side. In which he runs very little. Football is not just playing with the ball. A ball player only has two minutes per match“, Said” Il Luce “.

Edy has banned video games

The abyssal fall of the national game and the lack of results are on account of the batch of the lot, where the coach would have given up, writes GSP, the strict regulation that operated in his ancestor's mandate. During Edy Iordănescu (47 years old), the players had a series of restrictions. Whoever violated the rules paid fines that went up to 1,000 euros or could go to the exclusion from the lot (Andrei Ivan's case). With the arrival of Mircea Lucescu, the entire set of rules established by Iordănescu Jr. has been canceled. Interesting is a restriction provided by Edy. “During the rest period, video games are forbidden, otherwise it is sanctioned with 300 euros”, sounds a point in the interior regulation (ROI). Few know that, while he was legitimized at Rocar Bucharest (2001), brought to be in number by coach Dumitru Dumitriu, a former father of his father to the nation at the American World Cup, Edward, who was not a basic man on the former band of Gazar, was often surprised by playing on the cantonment.