Article by Maria Olteanu – Published Tuesday, April 21, 2026, 12:10 / Updated Tuesday, April 21, 2026 12:15
Flavius Stoican (49 years old) made his debut with the left on the bench of Farul, failure 2-3 at home, with FCSB, in the 5th stage of the play-out. At the end of the game, he held a 15-minute press conference in which he was like a “volcano”, talking about his plans for the team and the attitude he wants from the players.
In the first match after coming from League 2, where he prepared CSM Reșita, Stoican considered that he was the main culprit for the failure. With pathos and a lot of fire, he pounded his fist on the table and spoke his heart at the end of the confrontation. He optimistically hopes that the players will borrow from him the meanness he talks about and that they will not give their opponents a chance.
Flavius Stoican “erupted”: “People don't want to see dribblers like Neymar”
At the beginning of the conference, he analyzed what happened on the ground, regretting that some key moments were treated much too superficially.
“First of all, I'm disappointed that we had moments when we treated certain phases naively. We had expectations that someone would come and solve the match in those 1-on-1 phases or in phases when we could be much more aggressive.
I treated those 10-15 minutes superficially and conceded two goals very easily, then it was 3-1, Alibec with the execution, I still hoped. It's a pity that we treat too superficially, we have to be careful, and I, to move on to the bottom work. It's a shame, we give two for nothing, if the opponents give 3. We have to be careful defensively, that's the most important thing. Let's not have expectations that our colleague will solve it for us.
All in all a defeat that makes me bitter, but at the same time it gives me more ambition that when the matches start with teams that are said to be at the same level as FCSB, on paper, a very good team appears, although they do not play on paper. But it was seen today on the field, we were definitely afraid. There will be matches in which we will play equally in terms of value.
People who come to the stadium don't want to see dribbles like Neymar, they want to see a slide, a dive, a header, it would be important for us to do that. All people want the best for this team. We, the staff, and the players, have to show this.
I don't want us to hunker down, from the beginning we have to be aggressive, to press, things that I firmly believe will be seen.
I knew it wasn't easy, that if it was nice or easy I wouldn't be here, but I like it, I have the ambition that we will succeed, I know that. I wasn't coming to a team with a quiet ranking, all the players were suitcases. I knew that the situation was not so good in the ranking, that some people are skeptical, but I don't want to deviate from the work, it is not easy and I will succeed.
Flavius the Stoic: “I'd eat your mouth, I'm convinced I'm not fliu-fliu!”
I don't want to complain and I don't want to bully them or we bully them. I love them from the bottom of my heart and I know the guys are going to take this team out.
These guys are not careless. You have to awaken something in them. And I won't change anything at all, they will change.
They will wake up in their soul, they have a conscience and I am convinced that they are not fliu-fliu. I see them suffering. But he has to wake up. I feel such sadness when I see that all the people are with them… we have to feed on it.
Gică Popescu is coming, Tibi Curt is coming, Zoli Iasko is coming, Hagi from the national team is holding our fists, me, the people at the stadium, everyone, I would eat your mouth because we have matches! I mean I feel these things, what I dream will happen.
This team will remain in League 1, without a playoff. I don't change anything about them, I just awaken some things in them. No matter who criticizes me, I don't deviate from what I want and what I see, and I tell you from my heart and that's how it will happen”, said Stoican, in the conference.
Stoican: “Mirel is my brother, but I would like to eat him”
Then he became increasingly agitated, having a battle speech: “let's make war, let's transform”, “let's eat people”, “let's be more aggressive”, were the phrases he said repetitively, in a raised tone.
“Now we are playing with UTA, I don't think they are better than us, let's fight, let's fight.
Before the game… we say hello, but then these people come to take away our joy. Well, we're changing, it's war
I'm going, I kiss Radoi, congratulations, how's the boy, but I'd like to eat him. I tell you from my heart. He's my brother, we're talking. When the match starts, we transform. That's what I want from guys too.
Stoican insisted: “Well, how much better is Mirel Rădoi? I don't mind that. I want to eat his beregata!”
I don't want quantity, let's sit there, tell me when I can't anymore, that's why I have 5 people that I can change.
I want when we enter the field to eat off people. In quotes, that I don't want to break their necks now. But I want us to be more aggressive. It is not a reproach, that I am the main culprit. Why did we start the match with 3 center backs? I will do an analysis. I don't pretend to be some kind of tactician or a person who goes through their minds… I tell them from my heart, what I think.
Maybe people will say that I went there, beyond, but I know what I can do, but I will prove it, with everything. I'm going to convey this malice to them, to awaken this in them. And when he wins, everyone is happy, bravo, but what did I do? Nothing, nothing, and me here with the boys, it's going to happen, believe me. If we don't beat UTA, Botoșani, we don't deserve to be in this league.
This man (no. Gheorghe Hagi) built palaces around here for nothing. He built in vain, he did fusion in vain, he wants to build stadiums in vain. In vain, everything is on our shoulders. If we really don't deserve it, well guys, that's it, let's go home. People get their hopes up, that's the reality. Tactics, fixed phases have no value without ambition, you have to have ambition.
Regardless, now I feel like eating myself that Mirel Rădoi beat me. Well, how is Mirel Rădoi better? I don't mind that. He's my brother, but when the match starts I want to fight, I want to eat his beregata.
You'll see, now I'm telling you that's how I feel, I'm loaded, I could see the desire, the ambition. I have these hopes and I can see them flickering and now we are angry. What upset? That's it, we get up, we leave, we start over,” Stoican said at the conference.
VIDEO with the press conference of Flavius Stoican, at the end of the match with FCSB
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