Article by Alin Buzărin – Published on Thursday, 04 December 2025, 00:28 / Updated on Thursday, 04 December 2025 00:36
An abracadabrant deployment system favors the best teams to play dumb on the edge of a legendary competition.
A few minutes after his team was hammered in Arad, Gigi Becali, the “author” of the more than unusual group that made the trip to the bank of Mureș, impetuously speculated to Digisport that Alibec had surgery without telling him. Done, he had found the cause of the failure!
As if Alibec hadn't had surgery or had told his boss that he was going to have surgery, FCSB wouldn't have looked as pathetic in this trip that the club looked at with more disgust than those who at the time of the “painting” were taken out of production and sent to pick corn!
Miserupism makes proselytes
This 3-0 for UTA is logical, harsh, and pours poison over the idea of the Romanian Cup that has a tradition of almost a century. It's not only FCSB, but also other teams that lined up in this second round of the groups sets that they don't “try” even in the middle of the week, when they have school matches with the juniors.
Botoșani, for example, completely different from the one in the championship! Others who think they are Real Madrid and line up against Sibiu (a deserved 1-3 at home) a formula that mocks the competition, the name of the club and compromises some players unprepared for such a level.
Like Farul, against Dinamo (an unsalted 0-0, like an anchovy dropped back into the water)! Only Grigoryan (from the starting line-up) has anything to do with the “line-ups” in the Superliga.
A crazy system!
The mass enjoyment of the Romanian Cup is greatly favored by the absurd system. With these confused groups that no one understands.
Because, for example, FCSB, which won the first match in Biștrița (3-1), then played in the Cup in Arad, can win the third match (against Craiova, maybe on the date of the match Olten will be the ones who will have pressing competitive problems and will line up the preschoolers!), can qualify for the quarters and, in the end, can lift the trophy above their heads.
Filfizons with right of appeal
Over the years (even under communism, when it was registered “under the generous aegis of Daciada) the Romanian Cup was called either the “KO competition”, or the “surprise competition”, but the wooden language of the time defined its characteristics exactly. A competition where if you screw up, you can be eliminated, with no right of appeal.
This is how Ariesul Turda, Metalul Reșita, and Chimia Râmnicu Vâlcea, winners of the second league trophies, have consecrated themselves in the gallery of football legends. They took advantage of the arrogance of the various competitive filipinos in the ranks of the greats and wrote their own history. Now the filfizons have acquired the right of appeal.
What do the sponsors think?
Today, an absurd deployment system (paid by the FRF to a Dutch company more suitable for the mess in the Tower of Babel) allows trips like the one made by the Romanian champion in Arad and brings a traditional competition to the stage of circus, vaudeville, masquerade.
Sponsors swarm around this universalized banter (one of them is attached to the trophy by a simple hyphen), everyone seems happy and cheerful, while the stands are empty and the TV ratings of such sleazeballs barely move the needle above zero. Hal without Hal, no other!
