“I hate you! My mother smells and you tell me you are a mafia?! Do you remember how I slammed you on the aisle, after derby?”

On October 21, 2000, in an “inon” arena full of eyes, Beșiktaş passed with 3-1 by Galatasaray. It was the first season of Mircea Lucescu in Turkey, on the bench of Cim Bom, and the last of Hagi as a player, before the final withdrawal, produced in the summer of 2001. Gică Popescu was eliminated in the 69th minute after the accumulation of two warnings.

And in the 11th minute, at 0-0, there was a Noua-Hagi incident on the lawn, whose underground only now comes to the surface, with the French striker launching a virulent attack, unprecedented, to the “king” on the occasion of a special interview on the Bosphorus. It is a hard, uncomfortable speech that puts Hagi for the first time in a position other than that of “patron” of Istanbul: accused of racist and personal insults, concluded with a physical correction to the booths!

The newspaper has repeatedly tried to contact Hagi for a point of view. However, the boss of the lighthouse could not be contacted, not answering the phone calls, nor to the message sent on WhatsApp, indicated as reading in the messaging. The GSP requested a comment including in a dialogue with the club's press officer, Sorin Teodoreanu, also left without any reply from the former captain of “tricolors”. We will publish the version of Gheorghe Hagi when he decides to answer.

Autumn of 2000: Turkey at Hagi's feet, nouma idol at Beșiktaș

First, the context! Winner of the France Cup, the League and Cup Cup with PSG, plus the League Cup with Strasbourg and Lens in the 1990s, the noume had been bought with 4 million euros by Beșiktaș. He quickly became an idol on “Inonu” through his cascade goals (18 succeeded in 24 matches), but also a favorite subject for Gossip publications, due to his extravagant and nonconformist lifestyle.

And Hagi had Turkey at his feet: four consecutive titles with Galata, plus the UEFA Cup and the European Super Cup, against Real Madrid, exactly in the summer of 2000. Therefore, the first, and the only one!

In May 2000, five months before the conflict with Nouma, Hagi wins the UEFA Cup with Galatasaray in an epic triumph for Ottoman football. Photo: Imago

The conflict in the derby inflams the atmosphere: Hagi plated as in judo

And now-the vulcan phase of the 11th minute! An attack by Galata on the right flank, Hagi tries to advance, is greeted by the noume, which he seeks to escape with the help of the arms, hitting him with his left hand over the figure. But Pascal replied immediately, aggressively buys the Romanian back, blocks him with his arm on his neck and slams him nervously, with a process detached from judo.

The Frenchman was chosen with a warning, and the video images show how he almost assaults Hagi, swearing and reproaching him repeatedly that he hit his face. The colleagues of the two and the “Central” are hard to reassure the spirits, and in two minutes (13) the Nouma even manages to open the score, with the head, through an acrobatic execution.

The final score will then be set by Ahmet Dosun 86, 88, respectively Umit Davala 34. But, after 25 years, the noume presents his own version of an incident that, in fact, left deep wounds, continued secretly in the locker room, away from the eyes of the public and the press, only today under the light of the spotlight.

Noua: “Stop to smell me the color of the skin and mother! You threatened to be a mafia?”

So let's listen to Nouma's punctual confession!
– Pascal, how was the rivalry with Hagi and Popescu here in Turkey?
– Mister Popescu, I love you and respect you! Hagi – you're a scorpion! That's it!

– Why? What happened?
– Stop to smell me of my skin color and my mother! Do you remember what happened to me? I slapped you over your scorpion face! I hate you, but you were one of the best footballers in the world!

Pascal Nouma does not forget and does not forgive Hagi for the aggressive collision of the Beșiktaș-Galatasaray derby, played in October 2000: Eduard Apostol (GSP)

“But that's what happened many years ago, right?”
– Yes! But, for example, when someone swears by your mother, even if it happens a long time ago, you can't forget it!

– Was it a dispute during a match?
– He hit me with his elbow over his face and of course I took him up! And he said to me, “Who the hell do you think? You see I'm from the mafia, blah, blah!” I replied, “Fuck you with your mafia!” I then slammed him over the corridor at the “Beșiktaș” stadium. Mafias don't talk. You say you are mafia? It means you are not!

Pascal Nouma remained a player very loved today by Beșiktaș Photo fans: Imago Images

“I met him at St. Tropez. He was afraid when I called him that the Mafia is here!”

– But did you get offensive to the skin color, family?
– Everything!

– After that episode did you try to shake your hand? Maybe you realized that you exaggerated?
– No, no! When someone tells you such things … you know … are you from Romania, yes? Is this individual a good person? Do people love him in Romania? Is he a humble guy? It's arrogant!

– Do you remember who won that match?
– I didn't lose any derby with Galatasaray and Fenerbahce.

– Have you met Hagi after the conflict?
– Yes. I met him once after that match, in which he had warned me: “I am a mafia!”. My ex-manager organized a beach football tournament at St. Tropez. He played there in the Romanian team with Popescu and others. I was in the stand then and I shouted, “Hey, Hagi! Now you are in my country! My mafia is here!” It was a little scared. He was scared. But I didn't do anything to him. I left him alone.

Gazeta was present at the beach tournament held in June 2005 at St. Tropez, where the noume tells that he reunited Hagi

– If Hagi would be here …
– Sit down !! And shut the damn thing! Sit down immediately !!

– But what kind of player was he?
– A gentleman! A pleasant person!

“But as a player?”
– I never heard his voice. I was really wondering, “Do you breathe? This guy doesn't breathe?”. I don't remember hitting us or anything else. It was … how to say? Do you know the story with the angel and the devil? He was the angel, and the other, Hagi – the devil.

Nouma found words of appreciation for Gică Popescu, his former rival in Turkey. Photo: Imago

The Frenchman divines Lucescu: “It's a paternal figure for me, more than my father”

In the mirror with the very harsh speech to Hagi, Pascal Noua has a special relationship with Mircea Lucescu, which he also described in the GSP interview. In 2002, the current selection of Romania brought the French to Beșiktaș, who had sold him a summer before Marseille. And the transfer back to “Inonu” was done at a time when his life was hanging from a thread.

“Mister Lucescu was and is still a paternal figure for me. Even more than my biological father, Yannick. I was about to die, very, very bad, because I had a swelling in the head. Diagnosed with muscle cancer.

And he continued: “At that time, when I was in France, in the treatment, I played in Marseille. And Mircea Lucescu said so much:” I want Pascal Nouma! “, Even though I was in a very serious health. And he brought me back to Turkey. there! “.

I don't know how many hours I was staying every night and talking, but not about football. I was talking about life, my family, about children. My father has never been like that. It was a fantastic connection between us
Pascal Nouma, a former Beșiktaș striker, for GSP

Kiss Il Luce's hand after a goal with Dinamo Kyiv

Pascal nouma kissing Lucescu's hand, an image that made the globe around

But the moment that remained permanently on the retina is the one in which, after a goal scored against Dinamo Kiev, Nouma fled to Mircea Lucescu and kissed his hand! A gesture that made the planet around!

“It was my way of saying” You are everything to me! “.

But the noume had to leave the Beșiktaș club after a goal in the derby with Fener, celebrated in an obscene way: he put his hand in his pants, touching his genital organs! The management immediately terminated the contract, against the background of a huge scandal triggered in Turkey.
Currently, the noume is divided between Istanbul and the Azur Coast, continues to be an idolized name on “Inonu”, frequently participates in club or fans' events and a familiar figure on various TV shows.