Article by Andrei Crăiţoiu – published Wednesday, October 1, 2025, 17:32 / Updated Wednesday, October 1, 20:55
Victor Angelescu, president and minority shareholder of those at Rapidwas the guest of the show “Ovidiu's friends” on GSP.ro. He spoke without bypasses about the wars within the club that seriously destabilized the team last season. Angelescu revealed that he proposed Marius Șumudică at Rapid And that coach Costel Gâlcă was also chosen for the performances he had as “principal” at Fcsb.
On the 3rd place in the superlig, on equal points – 22 – with FC Botosani and FC Argeș, the quickists are confident that they can be their season. And the bringing of Costel Gâlcă was the first measure that the management of Grant took to hope for the pretentious goals of the management.
Victor Angelescu: “It mattered that Gâlcă is a calm guy, a more introspective guy”
“The passage was made because we wanted another type of coach. In the sense that we wanted a coach to play more possession … We wanted certain things from this season. From our point of view, Costel Gâlcă, we all know him, was the coach, I think, most suitable for us, so we thought at that time”Said Victor Angelescu.
“A coach who knows that he wants to attack, to keep the ball, to play an offensive game, a coach who had results, he won the title, the cup … He made the triple with FCSB, he trained abroad, he was a member of the national team of Romania, we know everyone. Of course it also mattered the fact that it is a calm type, a more introspective type”, The President of the Rapid also reveals in the show GSP.ro.
“It has been the most troubled year since I was at Rapid! Moldovan … it was not compatible with the club”
Angelescu explained that, compared to last year, a raised season for Giulesti with Șumudică on the bench, things have changed. “Last year, besides bad luck and arbitration, we were not good as a club! I mean, we had a lot of freckles, many internal quarrels. People who did not understand each other, the president of the club at that time, who did not agree with Marius and was notorious, others who did not understand each other … ”, explained the official from Giulești.
Asked concretely about the backstage problems between Viorel Moldovan (ex-president of Rapid) and Marius Șumudică, Angelescu was a diplomat and said that “I will not go into details, that these are of internal kitchen, but they were not on the same wavelength.”
And they were not the only scandals that shook their team. “Last year, last year, it has been the most troubled year since I was! I was not a family, we did not pull all at the same cart, we were looking more in the other's eye than to work and do good for the club.
And then we had to change in several compartments. I have nothing to reproach Viorel Moldovan. He came, worked, did everything he could for the club, but I don't think the club with him … I don't think we were compatible, “said Victor Angelescu.
Marius Șumudică and Viorel Moldovan, at the coach's presentation conference. Photo: FC Rapid 1923
“The supporters did not put the shydish! I proposed to be a coach”
Asked why they brought Marius Șumudică last year, being known to be a coach with a choleric temperament, Angelescu replied without avoiding at all.
“I needed a coach because you know how I started with Neil Lennon last season. As the FCSB started now, that's how we began to be … Șumudică is a great quickist, a coach who has results and has had results here and outside; I said it was the moment of”.
Marius Șumudică. Photo: Imago Images
Did Șucu and Angelescu named him at the pressure of the lawn, at the pressure of the supporters? “No, no! I was one of those who proposed it and no. As you know, I had pressures to come Marius Șumudic“, Replied Angelescu.
“Now I put it because I thought it was honest that it is the moment when he had to have the chance to train at Rapid. We had pressures to put Marius Șumudică and I put Adi Mutu. I made the best decision from that moment. Adi Mutu left Rapid to better, without us.”
The whole show with Victor Angelescu at “Ovidiu's friends”
