Article by Romeo Ene – published on Saturday, October 11, 2025, 20:41 / Updated on Saturday, October 11, 2025 20:41
Victor Pițurcă (69 years old), the former coach of Romania, prefaced the match “tricolors” with Austria, in the preliminaries of the World Championship. With a success, the students of Mircea Lucescu (80 years old) keep chances for the 2nd place and the possibility of easier opponents.
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Romania – Austria It is played on Sunday, October 12, from 9:45 pm. The match will be livetext on GSP.ro and televised by Antena 1.
Piturca accused a conspiracy against the coach Mircea Lucescu. He argues that the discussions about a possible departure of “Il Luce” only break the atmosphere in the locker room, taking into account the importance of this match.
Victor Piţurcă, before Romania – Austria: “We are trying to break the atmosphere before this game”
Moreover, Pițurcă does not want to hear about a possible dismissal / resignation of Lucescu, regardless of the result that Romania will record with Austria.
He believes that the current coach must remain at least until the spring dam, although he announced that the match with Austria could be the last on the technical bank.
“I do not like such discussions and Probably Mircea Lucescu is very disturbed by these questions. They seem to me questions.
When we are in front of such an important match and we have a very good coach with a great experience, we try to break the atmosphere before this game.
Mircea Lucescu is a coach too valuable to be changed after I do not know how many matches on the national team. He has to finish his job.
Even if we do not finish on one of the first two places, we have chances at the dam and the one who made it this is Mircea Lucescu. So from my point of view, the coach must remain until the end”, Said Pițurcă, for prosport.ro.
I wanted to resign after Cyprus. Let's see if the match with Austria will be my last match.
– Mircea Lucescuthe Romanian coach
The ranking in the Romanian group
