Article by Mihai Mironică – published Wednesday, October 15, 2025, 10:39 / Updated Wednesday, October 15, 2025 10:40
I do not think that a club coach or a coach should be judged permanently after speech. The results are all that matters. The same is true of players. There are footballers who have reached idols just because they knew how to say what the fans would hear. Otherwise, they were middle -class footballers, they were not special players.
In this term, Mircea Lucescu won a group from Liga C in Nations League. It was like a honeymoon in the new marriage between Lucescu and Romania. Then, when the marriage started for good, we chose with series beats even though we did not meet top opponents in European or world football. The blackest year in the history of the national team was saved as a impression of victory with Austria.
But even Lucescu admits, involuntarily, that he failed to say that Austria will not lose matches next month. So we won't win the group. Okay, we still hope that Lucescu can be deceived and that there will be a miracle through which we will jump from the third place on the first two stages.
The national regress with Lucescu
Objective, Lucescu is not to be crucified if he does not win this group. Austria has footballers who evolve at clubs of a higher level compared to the ones we play. But his predecessor, Edi Iordănescu, won a group with a “Austria”, the national of Switzerland.
Not to mention that Iordănescu Romania has qualified in the eighth. Therefore, the national team, with Mircea Lucescu Selector, is in a regress. Even emphasized. In this context, not only was it lacking in elegance, but it was even ridiculous when Lucescu started to criticize Romania with Edi Iordănescu.
It does not keep the excuse invoked by Lucescu as many players have had career difficulties lately. You are brought to administer a situation and take on a national responsibility. What, we are going to analyze the context when we praise Lucescu's performance to take Romania to a euro with 8 teams after exceeding Italy, world champion, Sweden and Czechoslovakia?
Do we start to take them from merits by saying that, unlike his predecessors, he then had Craiova Maxima and a formidable Dinamo, that is the first Romanian team in a European Cup semifinal, respectively the first Romanian team that reached the semifinals of the Champions Cup?
Mircea Lucescu, in bus / photo Ionuț Iordache (GSP)
Public execution of Marin and Stanciu
Mircea Lucescu is one of the most intelligent people in the history of Romanian football. He is a scholar, a fan of universal history and a man who knew how to have an applied intelligence, proof being his extraordinary achievements in football. But Lucescu has more and more losses with the empty gate when he expresses in public. Maybe it is from the age, although the Romanian coach is an exceptional octogenarian.
The public execution of Nicolae Stanciu and Răzvan Marin produced by Lucescu is unbelievable. Ok, their level of play has dropped lately, but how to put this year's failures on them? In the match in Cyprus, where Marin would have been the great culprit, he gave a gorgeous goal.
And in Vienna or Nicosia the others played very well, and were Stanciu and Răzvan Marin? And, even if it were so, is it not the responsibility of the coach not to have weak players on the field? Unlike a club coach, who operates with a small number of players, the coach has the whole country.
But Lucescu has not discovered now in Ianis Hagi and Dragomir some world -class footballers. Their future form may ask for other solutions. And anyway you always need alternatives because footballers do not play a match of 90 minutes at national. How will you be able to ask Stanciu or Răzvan Marin, who did not reach the career, can still be solutions, to give 150% when you executed them in the public market?
What kind of relationship between coach and player is this mockery? Replacing a player in the first 11 can be done naturally, directly, without words and even lies that demolish a relationship of trust.
Mircea Lucescu, first of all are the players
Mr. Lucescu, Victoria cannot be yours first, and the failures of some players. You have an indisputable merit in this triumph with Austria as you have an undeniable responsibility in the fact that we are in 3rd place in a group that we were to compose, we could not go more friendly, given that we were not series. In football, however, the great heroes are the players that for nothing we start explaining to the tab in detail, everything happens, in fact, on the ground.
That is why the players are paid 150, 180 or even 220 million euros and not the coaches. And, by the way, you do not complain that you offended the FRF with the current salary. No one forced you to sign. You have accepted because no one else offered you.
When Turkey offered you a money wagon, Romania has not existed. And your mandate to the Turks was a failure with all the sultan salary. Stop alinting with the departure, you stay to fight in dams and prove that the victory with Austria was not a happy event of the 90+5 minute.
