Article by Alexandru Barbu – Published on Thursday, 05 February 2026, 14:12 / Updated on Thursday, 05 February 2026 14:12
Alex Pop, a mediocre player in the realm of the Super League, is winning games at a team that was in no rush to get rid of him. It's not in her nature.
Last night, Dinamo got out of the hands of Farul twice and temporarily tied the leader Rapid.
There was wind and battle at Ovidiu. Farul, even in the play-out version, is always hard to beat on home soil. Alibec, microwaved at home, invented an assist. “Beast” Boateng took advantage of Buzbuchi's miscalculation and equalized.
The match was going towards the end, when Stoinov gave Larie the penalty from which he made it 2-1. “Boa” is really scary, if he scared David Maftei so much that the right back of Faro was not able to execute a clearance.
It was 2-2, a result worthy of a complicated trip. When Kopic moved with 3 changes – wait, it was as if Dinamo didn't have a bench?! -, he was also throwing Alex Pop into the arena. The footballer who failed to confirm in red and white scored the winning goal in '89. The striker born in Buenos Aires was also successful with U Cluj, he also scored a point with the University of Craiova.
VIDEO with Alex Pop's goal, which decided the match Farul – Dinamo 2-3:
Today's Dinamo means a stable environment, within which even second-line footballers become valuable. Because that's how they are treated.
The coach gives them confidence – Kopic sent hearts to Karamoko, disputed by many, in the game with U Cluj -, the management does not swear at them on TV, the supporters are close.
In a competition of instinct, Dinamo is predictable. And that's her strength
Journalists are obsessed with comparisons, as Ovidiu Ioanițoaia says. But football is also the perfect context.
If Pop, in an exercise of imagination, played for a rival of Dinamo, happened to be kitted out in red and blue, cost a lot of money, didn't have the performance of the first “11”, how useful would Alex have been at the end of a year of shaky developments?
Would he still have scored decisive points in the battle for the top places? Or would his legs have trembled, see the cases of Tavi Popescu, Politic, thinking that the next touch of the ball could be the last?
Alex Pop, Dinamo's hero at Ovidiu, photo: Imago Images
Pop, a team footballer, is in a gray area at Dinamo, which no longer exists in a football that divides players only into stars and firecrackers.
A parenthesis about today's Dinamo and the efficiency of a boring, sensational, but stable way of working.
Patience and time beat strength and anger, so believed Jean de La Fontaine.
Dinamo does not have a title team, but it has balance and consistency. Attributes that push Alex Pop to score title goals.
