Article by Tudor Belivacă – Published Friday, October 31, 2025, 10:19 p.m. / Updated Friday, October 31, 2025, 10:21 p.m.
Virigil Ghiță (27 years old), the player from Hannover, was the hero of his team after scoring the goal of 2-2 on the field of Elversberg, in a match of stage #11 of the 2.Bundesliga.
Hannover were heading for an away defeat, but the Romanian stopper managed to score a goal in the 85th minute and keep his team in 4th place for the time being.
Virgil Ghiță, decisive in Elversberg – Hannover: his headed goal earned his away team a point
The game in Elversberg started with Hannover in control, but the hosts opened the scoring through Petkov. Before the break, Hannover equalized through Le Joncour's own goal in the 42nd minute. After the break, the Elversberg team missed a penalty through Petkov, and Conte scored. Just 5 minutes later, Ghiță's goal came, which recorded the final result.
In the 85th minute, in a time crunch, the Romanian's colleague Leopold scored a free kick. Romania's hero from Austria rose to meet the ball in the 6-meter box and headed it back into Elversberg's net.
This was the second goal of the Romanian defender in the second league in Germany.
Virgil Ghiță arrived in Hannover from Krakow this summer. The Germans paid 700,000 euros to bring him to the team.
Virgil Ghiță started football at the academy of FC Argeș, and then he arrived at Farul, where he made his senior debut. After 5 years spent at Farul, the stopper took the step abroad and arrived in Krakow. The Poles paid at that time no less than 1.2 million euros. After 3 years spent in Poland, he signed with Hannover. Specialized websites have quoted it at 2 million euros. Virgil Ghiță also has 6 matches for the Romanian national team and scored only one goal: the one against Austria in the 2026 World Championship qualifiers.
