Article by Alin Buzărin – Published Tuesday, November 25, 2025, 6:17 p.m. / Updated Tuesday, November 25, 2025, 6:17 p.m.
The former football great was kicked out of the Federation for sexual harassment. But is what he did really harassment?
If I start by saying that in a few days, on November 30, it will be forty-two years since his historic goal scored in Bratislava, it will probably be said that I want to cover the misery of the present with the excitement of the past. The past is indisputable, but the present requires some explanation.
Definition of bullying
In the merciless eyes of the present, Geolgău is unforgivable. In a contemporary world that has invented new terms (“femicide” is one of them), texting a woman that you'd like to see her get out of the shower full of balls is unforgivable.
It's harassment, and the culprit is forever excommunicated from a society that calls itself principled, when, in fact, it's just a prudish one.
The stages up to the balls
But let's analyze a little…. Do you, a serious man, married for over three decades, send messages to a lady like that, out of the blue, about the club you want to see her in? Are there previous messages in the memory of the two phones? That he wouldn't have reached those clubs out of the blue!
There were probably preliminary discussions, it is not excluded that they were long, on various topics, the favorite being the career of the son of that lady about to go to the shower… Delusions, promises, emoticons, hearts. That just, that saying, the heart does not know a book!
Răzvan Burleanu and Ion Geolgău // PHOTO: Imago Images
The category of those mothers
In this whole story, Geolgău's sin is that he didn't know how to be a kind of Ulise de Pielesti, who could resist the advances (it's impossible that they didn't exist) of that lady who is part of a special social category.
That of the still-beautiful soccer moms who watch over their sons' careers by going to their training sessions often in clothes more suited to nightclubs. It's not misogyny, it's reality.
These ladies exist, they are only smiles left and right, and then, if the junior is not directly declared Messi, they pour out publicly the contents of the messages to which Gheorghiță and others did not have the strength not to respond.
The example of Overmars
The fact that the FRF kicked him out (the story with the mutual termination is only to simplify the paperwork issues) is not surprising. Not only Romanians act like this, but also others, or especially others.
Ditamai Marc Overmars was fired from Ajax for sending naked images to colleagues employed at the club.
Overmars was then banned from football for life. As if only in football there are colleagues who can be recipients of such messages.
Supporters and inquisitors
That's it, things are nailed down, Geolgău will see his way, although it's hard to imagine what it could be at 64 years old, just a few months before retirement. It is important that he be remembered by football supporters (not by its inquisitors) as the man with the goal in Bratislava, who during the years of the holy temple could not resist temptations that became more and more frequent in the world of this football, considered so pure!
