Article by Romeo Ene – Published on Tuesday, 10 February 2026, 23:16 / Updated on Tuesday, 10 February 2026 23:31
Francesca Bălan (20 years old), the player involved in the scandal revealed by GSP.ro with coach Gheorghe Tadici (73 years old), returned to team training!
CONTEXT:
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GSP published at the beginning of December the extremely serious accusations launched against Gheorghe Tadici, the technician on the bench of HC Zalău. The former selector of the national team is criticized for the scandalous treatment to which he would subject his own players. They reported some of the alleged slips and mental abuses of their coach;
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One of the handball players affected by Tadici's outings, Francesca Bălan, would have needed psychological counseling precisely because of the coach's behavior, an accusation that Tadici rejected: “She was already under treatment. What's wrong with her, I don't think she can play performance handball anymore”;
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As for the accusations that he cursed the players, the coach commented saying: “I don't know if I cursed them or not. It's possible that I'll get away with it. I'm just not going to censor myself in front of them!”;
In all this scandal, Francesca Balan submitted THREE memoirs against those from HC Zalău, her father exposing in an interview for GSP.ro, at length, the whole situation and the barbaric conditions at the team.
Francesca Bălan returned to training at HC Zalău, the club coached by Gheorghe Tadici
Two months after the outbreak of the scandal, Francesca Bălan returned to the training of HC Zalău, a team trained by Gheorghe Tadici.
The return also occurred in the context in which the club won the dispute with the athlete at the Romanian Handball Federation, a result that strengthened the legal position of Zalău, according to sportulsalajean.ro.
Francesca Balan
What Gheorghe Tadici says about the return of Francesca Bălan: “She apologized to the girls for what happened”
The coach of the Zalău team reacted after the athlete's return and stated that she apologized to the other players as well.
“As you know, the player left the team in August last year, and her father made up all kinds of lies, which he doesn't believe either. The girl suffered a lot during this period, and two weeks ago she wrote to both me and my lawyer.
Today, Francesca Bălan is training with the team, she apologized to the girls for what happened, and I'm not an absurd guy and I gave her a second chance. We presented the decision to the Board of Directors with three options: termination, sanction and payment of the transfer grid at the time it will be eligible for the game.
I see her in good shape and the moment I see that she is good to play, I will give her a chance to develop. Probably, even from next week, in the Romanian Cup match with Corona Brașov.
I don't know how many would have accepted her again in the team after all the hype that was made in the press, but I said that I would give her a second chance”, said Tadici, according to graiulsalajului.ro.
