Captain for the first time at the national team, Dennis Man summarized Romania's campaign: “That's where the qualification was lost”
Article by Alexandru Stanciu – Published Tuesday, November 18, 2025 23:55 / Updated Wednesday, November 19, 2025 00:42
Dennis Man (27 years old), first captain of the Romanian national team and scorer of a goal in 7-1 win against San Marinocommented on the course of the first national team in the preliminary campaign of the 2026 World Championship. The qualification was lost in the failure of the tour with Bosnia, score 0-1, believes the PSV Eindhoven striker, who raised an alarm signal before the tie.
Romania finished third in the preliminary group, below Austria and Bosnia, and will thus play in the play-off in March, where they will face one of Italy, Turkey, Denmark or Ukraine.
Dennis Man, after captaining the national team for the first time: “It's an important thing”
“The important thing is that we won, we knew we had to score quickly, make the match easy. Unfortunately we started a bit badly, but along the way we recovered. A tough field, but in the end we managed to win.
We couldn't believe it when they opened the scoring, but we got off to a bad start. Unfortunately, they managed to score very quickly, but after that we did quite well.
(no about being captain) It's a nice feeling, it's an important thing about the national team and it makes you feel proud.
I think we could have done much better in this group. I think the qualification was lost from the tour match with Bosnia. We started with a loss, and a few days ago we also lost to them.
A difficult moment, we have nothing to do, we have to focus on March. The performance was modest. We need to focus on March and get it done!
We were disappointed with the match we played in Bosnia, it doesn't need to be written to realize that it wasn't a good match for us. Even though we played well in the first half, we missed some important opportunities.
I say let's focus on what we have to do, no matter who we're playing. We all have to play in the club teams, and in March we all have to be ready“, said Dennis Man, on the show “Euro Football”, from Digi Sport.
