“That's why I got so angry” » From the hospital bed, Mircea Lucescu recalls what happened before and after fainting: “It's over, it's over”
Article by Alexandru Tomuțiu – Published Sunday, March 29, 2026 8:46 p.m. / Updated Sunday, March 29, 2026 9:14 p.m.
Mircea Lucescu (80 years old) was hurt on Sunday, March 29, during the technical meeting with the players, in Mogoșoaia. He is currently in a stable condition after he passed out and was rushed to University Hospital for a full set of investigations.
Shortly after the syncope, Lucescu gave a first reaction in the dialogue with Ovidiu Ioanițoaia, the director of Gazeta, and said that he is fine.
In the evening, from the hospital bed, the selector returned with details about what happened today. Lucescu confesses that he could not get over the failure with Turkey, he even made a brief tactical analysis and said goodbye to the national team with a message of support.
Mircea Lucescu: “I got very angry when I started analyzing the match against Turkey”
Lucescu was urgently transported to the hospital with a SMURD ambulance. Photo source: observatornews.ro capture
“I was very angry when I started to analyze the match against Turkey, even though 3 days had already passed. And from this state of nervousness I felt sick. I felt that I could no longer breathe normally.
In no way did I suffer a cardiac arrest, because I saw that some people wrote that. There were fibrillations. It happened to me the first time when I was in Brescia. It was very cold outside then and they took me to the hospital. They told me that if I didn't get out of fibrillation on my own, then the next morning they would give me shocks, but in the morning my pulse was back. Then I had this with the fibrillations at the end of last year as well. Now again. I'll do another set of investigations tomorrow.
Where should I go? Who lets me go after all this crap that came out today? I hope the boys can manage without me, although I can't understand the point of such a match and why FIFA decided this way.
I made some errors… And in the goal phase, we can't treat it like that… It's impossible… that's why I got so angry today. The Turks, after the 60-65 minute, could no longer keep up the pace and then we could surprise them.
Whoever carefully analyzed the match saw that Turkey did not surprise us with anything, absolutely nothing. The situations they had in the first half started from some lost balls by us, in an incredible way. Otherwise, Turkey did not put us in difficulty at all”, said Lucescu, according to golazo.ro.
“Everyone knew what happened to me 40-45 minutes after the episode in Mogoșoaia. They surprised me”
I was surprised, everyone knew why it happened to me 40-45 minutes after the Mogoșoaia episode. Even Giorgio Marchetti, UEFA's deputy general secretary, wrote to me. The Italians, the Turks, the Ukrainians, I was really overwhelmed to see how many people thought of me. My phone is actually blocked. I thank everyone for their kind thoughts and tell them I'm fine now.
“That's it, it's over. With the new coach, the players will be able to achieve good results, I'm convinced”
That's it, it's over. More important, however, is something else. I believe in the potential of this generation. Football players have a lot of talent. Supported, they and the new selector will be able to achieve good results, I'm convinced” Lucescu also said, according to the quoted source.
