Article by Adrian Duţă – published Monday, October 13, 2025, 00:13 / Updated Monday, October 13, 2025 00:22
Gică Popescu, the former captain of the Romanian national, analyzed Victoria with Austria, score 1-0from the preliminaries of the 2026 World Championship.
The former great defender said that the victory of “tricolors” was deserved, but urged calm. Popescu said that all the concentration must now go to the match with Bosnia, on November 15th. On November 18, Romania will play with San Marino.
Gică Popescu: “Let's stay with our feet on the ground!”
“I do not know if Nea Mircea told them or the players went up on their own. Ghiță went up there, you wondered what she was looking for.
A balanced first half, with aggressive Austria. Let's stay with our feet on the ground! We will have an important match with Bosnia for the 2nd place.
I saw a living national, with confidence, with courage. We tried to make pressure, to recover the ball up. I believed until the end. Ghiță's presence at the last phase in the opposing corner shows that I believed until the end.
There are two more matches. I am very confident, but let's stay with our feet on the ground. We have a match in Bosnia, which also depends on that result. I went through so much. Let's enjoy tonight, but to have our feet on the ground, there is a very important match.
I won with the best team of the group. I defeated without the right of appeal. But … I say it for the third time, to be very attentive to the match that awaits us, “said Gică Popescu, at Antena 1.
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