Article by Romeo Ene – Published Monday, April 27, 2026 7:52 p.m. / Updated Monday, April 27, 2026 7:56 p.m.
Victor Angelescu, the president of Rapid, was live the day after the drastic failure in the derby with Dinamoscore 1-3, in stage 6 of the Superliga play-off. He spoke about a key moment at the beginning of the game.
Marian Aioani (26 years old), the Giulești goalkeeper, got injured and was replaced after only four minutes by Adrian Briciu, a debutant at 18 years old. He made a mistake on the first goal scored by Georgi Milanov (34 years old).
Angelescu claims that Aioani knew he had certain medical problems, but he preferred to enter the field and upset Costel Gâlcă's plans.
Victor Angelescu, the day after Dinamo – Rapid 3-1: “It's a big mistake and we can't hide from these things”
Angelescu described the moment as a “shame”, taking into account that Rapid changed the goalkeeper after four minutes. Aioani blamed medical problems after the first two minutes.
“We played probably our weakest match, I don't know what the explanations are. It's a shame how we started the match, we will have some discussions, we also talked internally about what happened in the 1st minute, for something like that to happen at Rapid. I mean we changed the goalkeeper in the 1st minute. When you start the match the way you started it.
Everyone was devastated, I tried to understand how it could have come to this, we will have a clearer discussion with everyone tomorrow and, at least from my point of view, there should be drastic measures and fines for this, we will.
I don't know if it was seen on the broadcast, immediately after entering with the children in hand, from the picture, Aioani signaled before starting the match that he could not. He could not be changed, he was already on the field, he left in the 2nd minute. But he could not from the beginning.
The phase with Marian Aioani remembered by Victor Angelescu // PHOTO: Prima Sport capture
There are many things, it is not allowed at a club like Rapid for something like this to happen. I also had the misfortune of having an accident after making all the changes.
Aioani raised his hand that he can't anymore since he took the picture. If he started the match and gave a clearance and felt, took a dive, stretched and asked for a change, I could understand. But when you enter the field, the match doesn't even start and you signal for the change, it means you knew five minutes before.
He had trouble the day before, it looked like something he had a chance to play with, and from the warmup he felt it, stopped and went in, didn't warm up. We'll see. It's a big mistake and we can't hide from these things”, said Victor Angelescu, on the show “Fotbal Show”, from Prima Sport.
PHOTO GALLERY. Marian Aioani was injured in Rapid – Dinamo
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