The exhortation sent by Arnold Garita on the day of the match with Dinamo » Two years ago, he caused a great fright to the “dogs”
Article by Remus Dinu – Published Friday, October 24, 2025, 4:24 p.m. / Updated Friday, October 24, 2025, 4:26 p.m.
Arnold Garita, the goal scorer of FC Argeș from the year of relegation, actor including in the “dam” with Dinamo from 2023 (5-8 overall)sent a message to the citizens of Pitesti via Gazeta Sporturilor, on the day of the re-editing of the “double” from two years ago. “The bulldozer”, as the Cameroonian was nicknamed, did not forget his former club.
Almost two and a half years after the “barrage” with the song of 2023, FC Argeș and Dinamo are returning to the “place of the crime”, “Orășenescul” in Mioveni, the stadium where the “dogs” won their return to the first stage.
Garita holds the fists of the former team
Arnold Garita, 30, currently at Hapoel Be'er Sheva, in Israel, represented the main source of hope for Argeș in the return match of the “barrage” with Dinamo, when the white-violets were close to an exceptional “comeback”. Garita, a full-time player in both legs, scored two goals and provided an assist in the return match, in which FC Argeș led at one point with 4-1.
Having left FC Argeș in the meantime, at one point being offered by Gigi Becali for a transfer to FCSB, Arnold Garita holds the fists of the Pitesti players in the match against the “nightmare” Dinamo. “I wish a lot of courage to those from FC Argeș”, was the attacker's short message.
Arnold Garita, in the shirt of FC Argeș
Garita scored the goals of 3-1 and 4-1 in the second leg with Dinamo, a score that ended the momentum of the white-violets. Calcan was eliminated, and the team from Pitesti could no longer score in numerical inferiority, relegating a year away after they managed to qualify for the first time in the play-off.
At the time of his departure from Romania, Garita admitted that the severe failure in Bucharest, 1-6, left him completely demoralized: “Their victory with 6-1 was too hard, too drastic. I want to destroy Dinamo!”, said the African striker at that time, when asked about a move to another Super League club.
Dinamo took advantage of the decline from FC Argeș and returned to the first stage
In the summer of 2023, Dinamo secured their Superliga tickets after a heart attack “barrage” with FC Argeș. It was 8-5 overall for the team then coached by Ovidiu Burcă!
The Bucharest tour ended with an unlikely outcome! The red-whites prevailed 6-1 against the higher echelon opponent. The return from Mioveni was agonizing. FC Argeș led at one point with 4-1, but the “film” of the purple eagles broke after Calcan's elimination. Dynamo reduced the difference, promoting in the first league despite the 2-4 defeat.
FC Argeș restructured massively from that moment, even if it had to endure another year in “exile” of the second league. Only Andrei Tofan, injured for months, the kid Yanis Pîrvu and Cătălin Straton, reserve this season, are still in the extended team of Pitesti today. Even Dinamo has nothing to do with the team since then. In the group of “dogs”, there is no player who took part in the “barrage” with FC Argeș!
