Article by Adrian Duţă – Published Saturday, March 21, 2026, 08:30 / Updated Saturday, March 21, 2026 08:44
After the second play-out match played by FCSB, 1-0 against UTAGigi Becali, the boss of the red-blues, is still thinking about missing the play-off, a first for the team from Bucharest since the emergence of the current competitive system.
FCSB is in 7th place after the victory with UTA, with 27 points. He has two over the Aradians, who started the stage in first place in the play-out.
After the second match in the play-out, Gigi Becali spoke about the “shame” he experienced and declared that he cannot get over missing the play-off. Eliminated from the Cup as well, the Romanian champion has the objective of ranking in a place that ensures the playoff for the Conference League preliminaries.
Gigi Becali can't get over FCSB's play-off miss: “It's shameful”
“It's shameful what happened (no – that FCSB reached the play-out). We can't forget this shame, I can't believe it.
Every day, when I talk to MM, before the matches, I say to him: «Well, Mihai, do you realize what a shame? It's a big shame. You can not!”. Let's get over this shame, we can't”, he declared Gigi Becaliaccording to digisport.ro.
Isn't Cârțu right to make jokes? Don't I deserve it? I deserve them! I was the one who opened the scoring for Caterinca all the time. Now I have to put up with them, very well I tell them. I'll say it now: he who laughs last laughs best. In football, the European Cups are next. Let them get out of Europe, let us go and play the Conference League final in Istanbul.
– Gigi Becali, FCSB patron
Mihai Stoica: “Since the play-off started, it's getting harder and harder to bear”
Mihai Stoica, the president of the FCSB Board of Directors, also spoke about the consequences of missing the play-off.
“Since the play-offs started it's getting harder and harder to bear. We're looking at the games in the competition that we haven't missed. Now it's a half-open door for Europe, but to fix what can be fixed from this season we have to qualify for the Conference League.
For that, you have to win the first leg of the play-off, then win away from home with 3rd or 4th place. We live with the hope that we can”, said Mihai Stoica recently, on Prima Sport 1.
