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MM Stoica, angry at the referee after the failure suffered by FCSB with Bologna: “It's unreal!”


Article by Alexandru Stanciu – Published on Thursday, 23 October 2025, 22:54 / Updated on Thursday, 23 October 2025 22:54

Mihai Stoica (60 years old), the president of the FCSB Board of Directors, vehemently criticized the refereeing style of the Latvian Andris Treimanis in failure suffered in the third stage of the Europa League, 1-2 at home with Bologna.

In addition, the FCSB official again criticized the format of the Romanian Cup, declaring himself disappointed that the team he represents has to play all 3 group matches away from home.

Mihai Stoica, angry at the referee after FCSB was defeated by Bologna: “It was an obstacle for us”

I think a draw was the maximum we could get with this arbitration. There are some decisions I don't understand. If the Italians change at halftime both players who were supposed to be eliminated… If Olaru's face breaks… When a player, in the box, pushes his opponent with both hands and the VAR doesn't even intervene… When Bîrligea escapes towards the goal, the whistle blows for a foul in the attack. A lot of decisions…

Exactly what I said before the match came true. We played for an hour at the level of our opponents and at certain times we were above them. This can mean a new start, I really had a good development today.

Unfortunately, the goals conceded in the beginning of the game and the refereeing were insurmountable obstacles for us. Bologna is a super team, but look, I tortured them.

I think they were advantaged by these incomprehensible decisions of the referees. It didn't seem difficult to me, if we had a penalty and converted it, it would have been 2-2.

With Young Boys, in the second half, we put pressure and had no chances. Bologna is not Young Boys, it is much more. If there were matches like the one with Shkendija, when it was very difficult to look up from the ground, now we really have reasons.

Don't ignore the fact that I played with only one professional center back. Lixandru is a very good, serious player who respects his job, his colleagues and absolutely everyone. Lixandru will be an extremely important player, exactly as he was before the injury”, said Mihai Stoica, at Prima Sport.

Mihai Stoica once again criticized the Romanian Cup system: “It's unreal!”

“Until we think about Basel, we are thinking about the match against UTA, where Ngezana is suspended, after we have so many problems. Only Graovac, I think, can be an option. Then there is the match in Bistrița, then in Cluj against Universitatea, we have enough work.

We must also treat the Romanian Cup with utmost seriousness. Canceling the sports merit creates great inconvenience for us. It's unreal! It was explained to me that sports merit means that you are in the first urn, but you play away.

We were the most important team, we won the championship, but I don't understand why we have to play away the match against the team from the same urn as us. If he doesn't have a nightstand, he rents it, if he has it and it's non-functional, he fixes it, and so on.

Borcea (no. Agricola Borcea) did not come to us in Bucharest, not Cristi Borcea (no. laughs), does it make sense to talk to those from Bistrița? It is clear that for them it is the event of the year.

The teams in categories 2 and 3 aim to qualify to bring the known teams, to bring emulation to the city. We are the unlucky ones on duty,” the FCSB official added.

There have been many miracles in football, but I dread to think what will happen until January. We are forced to play with the team we have now, we cannot bring back important players.

We hoped that the goalless wins against Galati and Craiova would be the trigger. It came, I don't know how to call it, it was something unclassifiable that happened to Metaloglobus. At least now we feel exactly at the bottom of the abyss. From here we can only go up, not down.

Mihai StoicaFCSB official

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