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“David Popovici swims, looks cool, speaks well and thinks concrete! If I was fewer years old, he would be the idol.”


Article by Andrei Crăciun – published Monday, September 22, 2025, 15:57 / Updated Monday, September 22, 2025 15:58

Marius Florea Vizante, 53, is a Romanian theater and film actor, known for prominent roles in productions such as “Philanthropics”, “California Dreamin” and “The rest is silence”.

Today he plays on the Bucharest scenes, mounts his own shows and is involved in cultural and educational projects. Everyone tells her visants – and it does. Concerns, therefore, one of the most beloved (not just an over-used word) in the transition. What links do you have visants with sport? Has it? Well, let's find out.

-Dear visants, tell me, please, you (and our readers) if you watch sports. Do you look at live broadcasts (or resume), go to arenas, have you beat the stadiums, rinks (when they existed)? What is his relationship with the sport? Do you like the Bundesliga?
– Dear Andei and dear readers, from an early child I was pushed to Sport. From seven years I started to go to the stadium frequently. I saw athletics on the Republic, with the live commentary, from the stands, of Țopescu, I was directed, to see Coraș and Hagi, I grabbed the flames, I gave my hand at the Arenas Progresul, I saw for a thousand matches on Ghencea and I enjoyed the “beach” with the national area.

Marius Florea Vizane: “I love sport – he does not give me!”

At ten years old I was playing football in the dwarf, at Steaua, and after a few months I was already a goalkeeper … Who did not know with the cabbage passed in the gate, right? Then I went to the handball children of the Star (still in the gate !!!). Years later I broke pairs of skis and, with them, the pair of knee. Between the two operations of ligamentoplasty I have uprooted a shoulder … In short, I love the sport-he does not give me!

Today, when some decades of microbism have passed, I have ten sports channels on TV, so they go out much less at the arena. As Petre Țuțea said: “I do not watch football but football!” Bundesliga? I would not say that I follow her, but always when Zappez and I give a match there, whether it is erste or zweite, I remain overwhelmed by the archpropulated and beer-filled stalks of the galleries. It's football, I don't say no, but I prefer England, Spain and Sometimes Italy.

– I see myself having to ask: practice? Do you play chess? Archery? Light run? Dumbbell? Semi-marathon? How do you keep visas in a form that allows them to be present on stage, on filming boards, around, beyond?
-The truth is that I would move more but … this is the customer's material. I admit that, from time to time, I get professionalism and I go to the room, but the (semi-good) form that I display is mainly due to the work of the two courtyards that I care for (the little one from home and the big one in the country).

– But the young concerns, how was he from a sporty point of view? What did he like to do, to see? Did I idoli? And if so, why do you have?
– Of course, I can add a long list of names I love. In childhood I was always shaking my hand with the neighbor, Ultracampion, from the neighboring block, Ivan. Many years after that I discovered the Patzaichin Superom. I love it! It fascinated me how modest and hot it was a greedy, but also how fond of the job it is Hagi, how big was Dobrin (I know from the elderly and from the archives), I cried for Nadia, for Lavinia and all her colleagues, I had the skin for cheese, for Simona, for the victory from Seville, for the tournament, for the tournament, for the tournament, for the tour, for the tournament, and for the tour, I love all these memories. Oh, I have to say David Popovici: It's very strong! – At all. Swim demented, looks cool, speak well and think concrete! If I was less years old, he would be the idol. Now I rely on memories …

– Visins, you resonate with these two words: Notti Magiche? Italy 1990 tells you something? But the American dream of 1994?
-I was 17 years old-not that I remember, my eyes are still moistened when I hear that guitar from the beginning of the song! Those agreements seemed to have been written for me. It was the beginning of a life of … big matches. The Romanian was leaving obscurantism, I was leaving the skin of adolescent and I was preparing to become an actor. I saw how the new civilization would put us among the first nations of the world, and I would play with De Niro and Pacino (possibly on a stage in Bucharest, and I will have taught them to pronounce correctly in Romanian!). 1990. What do you want more than to have such a team, play at the World Cup and start with a victory against the USSR?! -Can you cope with Argentina Maradona? … Sublim! 1994. It was about the same, except that Gică Hagi was over Maradona! You have the damn western, who loved us, but only so … as an exotic nation, they did not want to accept that we are the best, that we deserved the golden ball!

-What is the figure in sports that impressed you the most in the last years and what did you learn from that/that? In general, what do we learn from sports, visants?
– If I learned something from the big figures is that the hierarchies are passing and that only what remains over time has the chance of certain value. There are so many athletes-people who deserve to be followed, there are so many souls-performances that I cannot, no matter how much I want to give name. It is worth understanding that the continuous desire for performance, self -knowledge and self -defense really keeps us alive. If you don't want anything from you, you're already taken. Now I understand that there were no old suckers all those who said “Citius, Altius, Fortius!” or “Mens health in corpore sano!”. It may sound bombastic, but you can't live a fulfilled life if you don't enjoy everything she offers you. The game and play are just as important as seriousness and perseverance, and even better together. Come on, I start to become precious! I better stop here.

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