Article by Ovidiu Ioanițoaia – published on Sunday, September 14, 2025, 17:05 / updated on Sunday, September 14, 20:09
It is known that the recent equal of Romania in Cyprus, comparable to a failure under the mediocrity of the opponent, 128 in the FIFA hierarchy, sparked waves as much as the house and annoyed the fans of the national.
Noting that their soul team is like the race for the 2026 World Cup, with minimal chances of finishing 2 in the qualification group, they also raised the problem of separation as a coach. Mircea Lucescu was reproached, besides the 80 years on July 29, a series of errors committed in the match in Nicosia.
Mistakes that the technician did not end up assuming, recognizing (among others) that the most inspired changes were made. And that, in general, it turned out to be sentimental in that he gave confidence to players who did not rise to expectations.
Their list is longer, but it should start, my opinion, with Man, with Ghiță and the two navy.
Obviously, the reproaches surprised Lucescu SR. They disturbed him and hurt him. The louder as he took over the national one in a delicate moment.
When the former coach had refused the extension of the contract and when, despite the searches, FRF has not found any other satisfactory solution. In other words, Lucescu did not hunt the post.
He was hardly accepted and only in the idea that he can help with his experience and notoriety. He would no longer have glory or money. However, he gave in to the insistence of Burleanu et Co, who convinced him that he needed it, in the role of Salvatore della Patria!
As such, hearing that Gică Hagi, one of his old students, would succeed, Lucescu was willing to give up, to withdraw. “I do not cling to the chair, but I immediately put myself aside,” he said, ready to get out of the landscape.
From what I understand, not you too, as when he appealed to Lucescu's services, even now, after the regrettable 2-2 of Cyprus, the Na Federation had another plausible variant. So he further granted the free hand to the current coach, Book Blanche.
Mircea Lucescu and Răzvan Burleanu / Photo: Imago
To try to get the qualification at the CM if not from the preliminaries, which seems unlikely, at least from the League of Nations, you know what I mean.
Things were also clarified because Hagi himself was pronounced about the possibility of coming to the national team now: “I say it is Lucescu there and it is not necessary to talk about another coach.
To be even clearer, Hagi completed with “I have no message for Romanians. Mircea Lucescu has to speak, listen to him! We must listen to him”.
Closed topic, which will not prevent some to look for other and other defects to Lucescu. It is given with stones only in the trees with fruit, right?
