Article by Andrei Crăiţoiu – published Wednesday, October 08, 2025 19:42 / Updated Wednesday, 08 October 2025 19:42
The national team of Romania still has a minimum chance of reaching the World Championship in the Preliminary Group. The hopes are in the Dam in the League of Nations, which will take place in March next year.
Mircea Lucescu, the Romanian coach, said he was willing to leave if another coach assumes to take the first representative. Among the names most conveyed in the last period were those of Gheorghe Hagi and Edward Iordănescu.
But Dănuț Lupu (58 years old), former player of the national team and champion of Romania with Dinamo and Rapid, He does not believe that Hagi will now accept the proposal of the federation to take over the “national”.
“Who can say that players play badly because of Nea Mircea?”
“I do not think Hagi is a variant, because he does not want to come to the national team!”was Lupu's first reaction.
“They asked Hagi more than sure and I don't think he said in a second that he wants to come to the national team. Why doesn't Hagi do not appear? Gică Popescu is Hagi's spokesman? How can you speak on behalf of a man if that man …”, continued the former international.
Gică Hagi at the Legends Charity Photo event: Ionuț Iordache (GSP)
“I am one hundred percent that Hagi does not want to come to the national team. So Hagi did not want to come to the national team last year, in the summer, in the context in which the team played something after Edi left. He played something, he had done something and no. And Hagi comes now when I don't sit in boots?“, It was the message that Lupu transmitted to the show” Ovidiu's friends “.
Asked directly about the critical situation in which the national is located at this time, Lupu was not thinking and positioned as a shield in front of the current coach.
“Who can say that players play badly because of Nea Mircea? What does Mircea do? I think they make the workouts much more pleasant and useful than Edi's. I do not think that, in three days, there is a man or a teacher better than Lucescu who can do something positive for the team, ”he explained.
I want Hagi to come. No to come! Because Gică is a coach where he was as long as he didn't do what he wanted, he didn't. The national team is harder to do only what you want. And we know very well the relationships that the Federation has had over the years with the so-called gold generation …
Dănuț Lupu, former international
“Nea Mircea will win the dam and we will qualify for the World Cup!”
Then he presented the causes for which the team came to have a totally changed game compared to Edi Iordănescu's period.
“We must keep in mind that many come after periods of injuries. After periods when they did not play for club teams or transferred from one team to another, and when you transfer from one team to another you get out of your area and it is harder until you accommodate with the new team,” Lupu pointed out.
Mircea Lucescu
“When you move from one house to another, you need 3-4 weeks until you get comfortable in the new home. But until you go to another team and play. Until you accommodate with the players. Until you go from a tactic 3-5-2 or 5-3-2 to 4-3-3. It's a little more difficult!”, The former international for GSP.ro said.
Dănuț Lupu believes that the national team will reach next year's World Cup in the United States, Canada and Mexico.
“I said it before the match with Cyprus, although I didn't know we would have this negative result, I say. I said we would qualify for the dam. It was hard for me to believe that we will go over Austria and Bosnia. Nea Mircea will win the dam and we will qualify. It remains one hundred percent, it doesn't leave because no one comes!”, The former striker said.
