“Better than Drăgușin! Fiorentina took him to the first team”

Almost five months after that moment, the impresario Florin Manea, who represents him, went live and spoke about the qualities of the 16-year-old stopper.

The one who also works with Radu Drăgușin “gambled” in an ambitious bet: Corduneanu will become a better player than the Tottenham stopper.

Robert Corduneanu, the new prodigy in Romanian football?! “It's sensational”

“The kid is sensational! They called him after four months to Fiorentina's first team. I made a prediction that he will be better than Radu Drăgușin, if he works as hard“said Florin Manea, at “Liga Digi Sport”.

Corduneanu signed a three-year contract with Fiorentina. He also continues school in Florence, being in the 10th grade. Although he was transferred by Fiorentina, the kid has not yet been selected for the national junior teams.

Robert has huge potential. We have a collaboration with ACS Didi and we took it last summer. I worked with him, polished him, corrected what needed to be corrected and now, with the help of Florin Manea, I took him to Fiorentina.

He was with them for two training sessions, they liked him and took him. For now, up to 19 years old, that's the rules.

– Mihai Traistariuthe president of ACS Juniorul, in the summer, for GSP.ro

ACS Junior also retained a percentage of a possible future sale of Robert from the violets.

It was also from this club that Rareș Ilie, sold by Rapid to Nice for 5 million euros, also launched into important football.

The club also has Cristian Ignat at Rapid, who has already made the step to the big team, as well as Gabriel Gheorghe, who made his debut for Giulești last year.

The Romanians who wore the Fiorentina shirt over time

• Marius Lăcătus (1990-1991)

• Bogdan Lobont (2006-2007)

• Adrian Mutu (2006-2011)

• Ciprian Tatarușanu (2014-2017)

• Ianis Hagi (2016-2018, academy)

• Eduard Duțu (2022-2025, academy)

• Louis Munteanu (2020-2024, academy)