“They don't have any supporters, only the families come!”

The former Metaloglobus technician claims that the relationship with the players was never a problem, the respect being mutual, but the difficulties invariably arose at the managerial level, where ideas about team construction came into conflict.

In the interview from “Prietenii lui Ovidiu”, Mihai Teja points to the episodes from FC Voluntari and FC Botoșani as moments in which he believes that he was not given enough time to complete his projects.

Mihai Teja: “It is not easy to work with people, especially with management”

– Mr. Teja, have you been breaking up with clubs because you are very proud or have you been wronged?
– I think both. I have a problem too and I've always tried to fix or try to stop doing the things I probably did wrong. Let me try to correct myself. It is not easy to work with people, especially the management of the club. I never had any problem with any player. Neither as a second coach, nor as a physical trainer, nor as a head coach, I had no problem.

– And is that good or bad?
– I don't know what to say, from my point of view it's good. It means the players respected me and the work I did. The problems arose, I told you, when we had certain discussions with club managers or club presidents and there were other ideas.

“Infrastructure is a problem for most teams”

– Where do you think you were most wronged?
– At Voluntari, I could stay to finish my mandate, as well as at Botoșani, I think we had started to rebuild a team. It also depends on the period when you go to a team. At Botoșani, I went after Marius Croitoru when he had those performances, they played around Europe, they sold a lot of players, they were also in the play-offs and the same thing was required, the same goals. But the team, the team, changed completely, a lot of players left and it was very difficult to be able to move very quickly, in a very short time.

– You cannot have high demands from a team that has nowhere to train.
– That's right. And unfortunately infrastructure is a problem for most teams in League 1, League 2.

“Metaloglobus supporters?! No, just the players' families!”

– Metaloglobus played in Clinceni and trained somewhere in Pantelimon, right?
– On a synthetic pitch, we could not enter the grass at Clinceni. In the summer we trained on the training grounds in Clinceni.

– Does this metaloglobus have any supporters?
– No, the families of the players… No, they don't, I don't think they have supporters, only those close to them who came to the matches.

The head coach at Metaloglobus is now Florin Bratu // photo: Facebook @ Metaloglobus Bucharest

– Probably something from the employees.
– Yes, yes, yes. But they don't exist, they don't have any supporters.

– It's hard to live like this, without a stadium, without supporters, without a salary…
– It's not easy with a fairly small budget.

– He promoted so that he could be retrograded
– They didn't even expect a promotion. Maybe only Zicu or the players, the management probably didn't expect it.

– Sepsis fell…
– With very high salaries and a very large budget and he promoted Metaloglobus in the double match with Politehnica Iași.

“We are not realistic with what we want to produce”

– Did you talk to Zicu then?
– Yes, yes. We met the third stage, we played with Farul and we talked, he told me certain things about what happened from a sporting point of view with the players we had at our disposal. Because we mostly kept the same batch of players. We are not realistic with what we want to produce. We want more from someone, but without realizing that we are not giving more.

– It is also valid for the national team. We see things rosier than they really are.
– We are not realistic about what possibilities we have, because if we are not realistic and create illusions, we will always have disillusions.