Mihai Pintilii wants to rebuild the national team from the ground up and proposed some surprise names: “They will grow nicely”

Andrei Borza, Cătălin Vulturar, David Matei and Lorenzo Biliboc are the players the former midfielder spoke about.

Mihai Pintilii, confident in the young people from U21

After the national team lost the semi-final of the World Championship qualifier against Turkey, 0-1, several voices in Romanian football are already talking about the solutions that the future selector will be able to use in the next qualifying campaigns for the final tournaments.

Former second coach at FCSB, Mihai Pintilii named several young players who can become important in the structure of the big national team.

Andrei Borza and Cătălin Vulturar from Rapid, David Matei from Craiova University and Lorenzo Biliboc from CFR Cluj are the names that caught Pintilii's attention.

“I say Borza, Vulturar from Rapid. David Matei could, but he is still small. Borza could cope. He has demonstrated. Vulturar is on the rise, he is growing nicely. If he maintains this pace, I think he will become an important player. Biliboc can be”said Pintilii, according to Prima Sport.

Although the senior team was eliminated from the World Cup qualifiers, Romania U21 is coming off an important victory in Kosovo, 1-0, with a view to qualifying for the 2027 European Championship.

After this victory, Romania U21 reached 10 points and climbed to the 3rd place. It is 3 points away from Finland U21, the main opponent for the 2nd place, which would lead to the play-off.

For the Romanian U21 national team, the duel against San Marino follows on March 31, also in the preliminaries for the European Championship.