Article by Alexandru Barbu – published Tuesday, September 16, 2025 23:47 / Updated Tuesday, September 16, 2025 23:49
With a dose of snobism: why do we get so far when we talk about superliga? About Fcsbabout Nation? We do not see that it separates us from the football that really matters?
Start the main painting in the Champions League. The poster is not sensational, a PSV – Royale Union is slipped, Come on, Benfica – Qarabag. But Romania is no longer strained, since 2013. The real explanations are long and boring.
Comparison with Champions is sad, shakes and despair at the same time. We look at a mirror that shows us how crooked and back we are. In fact, how bad we think.
Liga 1 is a toy champions
To us the employer makes tactics and changesthey make coaches -manners from legends – Xabi, artery. They do not only trust the Pensioner technicians, Union Saint-Gilloise attacks the Champions League with Sebastien Pocognoli, 38 years old.
Stadiums are full, colorful, people sing, Don't spitdo not threaten players that “Take their necks”, toilets do not have view directly to the ground.
Hotspur Stadium breathes a civilized atmosphere before Tottenham – Villarreal, Photo: Imago Images
And Athletic Bilbao is far inferior to Arsenal, As the ratio of Oil and Dinamo. Ciobotariu is expelled trying not to play football, just to destroy and pinch on the counterattack. Like 30 years ago. We also barricadize them, to make Halagian proud.
We ignore that the sport has changed, that today is played 1 to 1 throughout the field, see Gian Piero Gasperini's tactic, and football ignores us. With its resources, concentrated, it is right, on the defensive, Bilbao frequently has the courage to take on the map with the more valuable footballers of the vice -champion of England. He knows that he stabbed the show, to make an antjoc is not a solution, just a guarantee that à la longue you do not progress, you are stinging.
Didn't Real tell anyone that new generations are weak?
We run like a plague usually the U21: “Cuuuum, to force me to put what players you want?! Don't you hear, sir, that the 2004 generation is bad?!”. Without realizing that all our fault is that there are no young and valuable footballers. And that an absent normality operates with rules and reforms.
On Tuesday evening, in the Champions League were holders 6 players aged 20 or younger: Yarek Gasiorowski (PSV, 20), Kenan Yildiz (20, Juventus), Huijsen (20), Collar (20), Massantuono (18, real), Bergvall (19, Tottenham).
They realized the recipe until they were forced to treat themselves.
We are interested if it was a penalty there ends the debate
Our you have the whole championship from scandal to get their hands on the money in the European Cups. But in Europe they are tired, pfff! And we make dozens of shows on the subject, we are desperate to postpone stages, to preserve ourselves.
Arsenal how does it succeed? With a single change in the first “11” between a Premier League duel and one of Champions League, separated by 3 days?
Olaru threatens to leave football if they evolve on a less warm postSzoboszlai is “decar”-right-handed, Merino Central-Atacor.
We stay behind, we have decades to recover. We are far away, underdeveloped, unexpected, ignorant. And we refuse to grab the towing rope. The peak, when the information is a tap away.
But it is easier to believe that you have solved the case only by swearing by the referees and who you catch. Romanian football is with and about “Give us, well, and something!” Put on, not at the time. Let's get back to the frown.
