His adventure Alexandru Mitrița (31 years) at the national team is over. The selector Gică Hagi said that he will not try to convince him to reconsider the decision.
In the fall of 2025, while the late Mircea Lucescu was a selector, Alexandru Mitriță announced his retirement from the national team.
“Today, at the age of 30, I am at a point in my career where I have to make difficult choices. I play in China and the distances are huge. The long journeys and the short time make it extremely difficult to be a constant presence in the national team,” he justified.
Today, in press conference that he organized in anticipation of his first matches of this mandate, the new selector Gică Hagi was asked if he tried to persuade Mitriță to reconsider the decision. Hagi vehemently denied.
Gică Hagi settled the Mitriță case: “There is no point in discussing, he has made a decision”
“Have you had any discussion with any withdrawn player, to return? I'm thinking here of Mitriță, maybe of Maxim”, Hagi was questioned.
“I made calls to certain players, I spoke especially to outsiders. But no. When a player makes this decision, what do you do? I can't even comment on it, it's his decision. He made this decision, so he can give the answer.
Mitrița said she didn't want to come anymore. It was with two coaches, not just one. The coach before me was a “monster”, something very big. There is no point in talking about this, we must look ahead.
If he reached this conclusion with coach Mircea Lucescu, to say that he is not coming, then there is no point in discussing“, answered the new selector of the first representative team.
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Since June 2025 in China, at Zhejiang Professional, Mitriță continues to play at a good level, boasting 10 goals and 11 assists in 23 games for his new team.
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He wore the shirt of the first representative team of Romania 26 times and scored 4 goals.
