Article by Romeo Ene – Published on Thursday, 16 October 2025, 21:21 / Updated on Thursday, 16 October 2025 21:29
Mircea Lucescu (80 years old) apologized to Florin Tănase (30 years old), the attacking midfielder of FCSB. The Romanian coach left him on the bench for the match against Austria, won 1-0. Mihai Stoica (60 years old), the official of the Romanian champion, revealed how the footballer reacted after Lucescu's apology.
Tănase played only 2 minutes in the friendly with Moldova and was an unused reserve in the match with Austria.
Lucescu he promised him that he would get minutes in the preliminary game, but this did not happen, which is why he apologized. And Mihai Stoica revealed the discussion held with Tănase.
Florin Tănase has no resentment towards Mircea Lucescu's decision: “He told me what happened laughing”
The official of the Romanian champion claims that Tănase was not angry, but even amused by the situation. In addition, Ianis Hagi, the one he would have replaced normally, passed decisively for Virgil Ghiță's success.
Mihai Stoica he also appreciated the behavior shown by Tănase, who trained with a smile on his face.
“Perhaps any other player would perceive what happened differently, not Florin Tănase. Just on Sunday at lunch I spoke with him and I give you my word of honor, he told me what happened laughing.
He said to me: “well, that's it”, with a relaxed and good mood. He was smiling at training, “what should I do, he told me I'm going to play”, in the end he didn't care at all (no – laughs). If Austria had beaten us, maybe it would have been discussed differently.
It's a victory achieved at the last moment, the assist belongs to Ianis, who basically would have been the player that Florin Tănase should have replaced. All's well that ends well, what to do.
As a rule, the players are unhappy when this happens, this was not the case with Tănase. For me it's a big surprise, I've had many discussions with players who were puffed up when they came and didn't play, but not in his case”, said Mihai Stoica, at Prima Sport 1.
Romania's coach made only two changes in the match against Austria. Forced by Mihai Popescu's injury, he took off and sent Ghiță, the scorer of the goal in the last phase, onto the field. And, in the 88th minute, he put in Louis Munteanu instead of Bîrligea.
24 matcheshas Florin Tănase in the national team, for whom he scored 5 goals
Ranking from the Romania group
