Article by Daniel Grigore – Published Friday, December 12, 2025, 12:48 / Updated Friday, December 12, 2025 1:08 p.m.
Gigi Becali (67 years old), the owner of the club FCSBexplained that today and Saturday, the first two days after European win with Feyenoord (4-3)will share the €450,000 prize for the European result.
On Thursday night, FCSB won their second match of this European season, 4-3 against Feyenoord, after being 1-3 down. In the league phase, any win is rewarded with 450,000 euros. Becali claims that he distributed this money in advance, a promise he allegedly made while praying for a big outcome.
Gigi Becali has already shared the money for the victory with Feyenoord: “I said: «God, if I win all the money, 450,000, I will give it immediately, in two days»”
“I said: 'God, if I win all the money, 450,000, I will give it immediately, in two days.' Today I gave 50,000 to a parent, to give them, to distribute them to deacons, to ministers, and tomorrow I will make 400,000 OPs (no – payment order) for priests. Every year, I give 7 thousand euros to priests with 7 children. 10 children, 10 thousand euros.
What is from 5 children and up receives one thousand euros each [pentru fiecare copil]. I have their data, from Moldova. All over Moldova. I distribute them to priests with many children, from all over Moldova.
Tomorrow I share them. What if I promised them? I promised him. I also gave a car as a gift today. To a deacon from the Patriarchate. I also gave an apartment. So what should I do with them? (…)
I got in touch with Bishop Teofan (no – Metropolitan of Moldavia and Bucovina) and I said: «Give me a centralized list of all the priests in Moldova and how many children they have, as well as their account numbers. He gave it to me, I put it in the computer there and that's it. I had others do it. Pac, tomorrow morning, 7 children, 7,000 euros in the account, 8 children, 8,000 euros in the account. Everyone.
Do you know how many there are? About 400 children, from priests who have more than 5 children. That's exactly how much it costs me, about 400,000″, said Becali to fanatik.ro.
We are the only club in the country that can achieve such victories. In football, the emotions are incredible. We were leading 3-1 and we came back in the last second. I had a lot of emotions and that's why I celebrated like that at the end. You feel great at the end. I think so, as a coach, I think it's the most beautiful and crazy win in my coaching career. Biggest win since I've been here. The way the game was going, at 3-3, everything was open. We knew whoever scored would win. I felt that if he signed up, we would. We wanted more, and in the last 20 minutes we were the better team. I hope we look the same in the rest of the games this season
– Elias Charalambous
Highlights from FCSB – Feyenoord 4-3:
- FCSB scored with all shots on goal, 4/4;
- Of the 31 FCSB attacks, 14 were carried out on the right flank, only 6 on the left flank, the remaining 11 on the central area;
- The biggest danger, however, was created centrally, with 61% of the total xG being generated from these actions;
- Feyenoord's players managed FOUR times as many dribbles, 20-5;
- From the FCSB camp, Juri Cisotti is the only one with two dribbles. Ngezana, Baba Alhassan and Thiam also contributed with one each.
