Article by Adrian Duţă – Published Wednesday, December 31, 2025 6:30 p.m. / Updated Wednesday, December 31, 2025 6:49 p.m.
Gică Popescu, Gică Hagi's brother-in-law, announced that “The King” will return to coaching, after the break taken starting in the summer of 2025.
At the end of last season, Gica Hagi he stepped back and gave up the Lighthouse bench. The shareholder of the Constanta team appointed Ianis Zicu in his place.
After more than half a year in which he stayed out of the spotlight, dealing mainly with the academy, Gică Hagi is ready to become A1 again in a team. Gică Popescu announced that Hagi wants to train again.
Gică Popescu: “Hagi has not retired, he wants to return to the bench”
“Gica needed such a break because she has worked enormously in recent years. The results he achieved at the helm of Farul were extraordinary and unexpected, because we are among the poorest teams in League 1 and with the best results.
If we make a comparison with the other top teams, we are in last place in terms of budget, but money does not make results. If it were so, FCSB would win every year, Craiova, Rapid or CFR Cluj
Will definitely be back, not retired now. He took a break, as was normal for him to do. He wants you back, I don't know how soon, but he will“, declared Gică Popescu, the president of the Lighthouse, according to as.ro.
Gheorghe Hagi and Gheorghe Popescu
Gică Hagi's track record as a coach
As coach of the team in which he is also the majority shareholder, Gică Hagi won two titles in League 1. The first in 2017, when the club was called Viitorul. The second, in 2023, when the team had its current name, Farul.
Before becoming the coach of his own team, Hagi was also on the Romanian bench of Bursaspor, Galatasaray, Poli Timișoara, FCSB. In addition to the two League 1 titles, he also won a Cup and a Supercup, with Viitorul, and a Turkish Cup, with Galata.
25 yearshave passed since Gică Hagi became a coach: the first team in his career was the Romanian national team
