Article by Robert Vîrdol – Published on Wednesday, 20 May 2026, 20:43 / Updated on Wednesday, 20 May 2026 20:50
At the match between Milan Academy and ACS Leamna, in the 5th League Dolj, at the Electroputere stadium, a 17-year-old referee was delegated, who claims that he was beaten by the representatives of the home team. Gazeta Sporturilor got in touch with his mother, with him, but also with the coach of the visiting team, who told what happened at the event.
The boy's mother, Mari Șearpe, made several harsh accusations against the Milan Academy club. The woman says that her son was assaulted by several players from the team, and the one who saved the boy was the technician of the ACS Leamna team.
The reason why he would have been beaten is because the home team would not have been happy with the refereeing.
What the referee's mother says: “One of the aggressors was telling me that he thought he was 25”
After Fanatik wrote about this event, Gazeta Sporturilor talked to the mother of the minor, and she told her side of the story.
Parents of the minor arbitrator
“If it wasn't for Mr. Deliu (not the coach of the visiting team), I wouldn't have had the chance to get him out of there, it would have been impossible for me to take him. I am aware that every referee makes mistakes, as they say he got fired up from the foul that my child didn't do, but that doesn't give you the right to beat him. The problem is that his colleague on the touchline didn't notice either. To end up banging a 17-year-old kid, you should be taken to the woods, excuse me.
I looked and there were some born in 1983. In the statements I gave names that are not real, they played fake. The first time, Poenaru Mădălin commented, in the 57th minute he got red, entered the field. There was never a red card for insults there, apart from that phase, only because they hit him, but in the 57th minute Mr. Poenaru ran at him. He had to close the game. The problem is that we are normal people, the child played football as a child, he is a child who does not disturb, and to do something like that…
Milan didn't make any phone calls, he said that only my child was to blame, that he took a beating. Mr. Jan told me that if my child knew how to referee and wasn't so “stupid”, he wouldn't have been beaten. To tell me that to my face when I was desperate to get him out of there… I was told he was arrogant.
A cousin from the family came and asked him who they were who broke into him, and Mr. Nicola said he didn't know who they were. How can you say that? Let's get the cameras and see if he was on the field. One of the aggressors, the one who slapped him, tells me that he thought he was 25 years old. What is the explanation? At AJF they wanted to make a commission yesterday, but the report from forensic medicine had not arrived”, said Mari Searpe.
The minor: “They caught me in the corner, they surrounded me and I took legs in the back”
The minor gave a statement in which he explained that Milan Academy players kicked him in the back in the 75th minute when he stopped the match: “I'm fine now, mentally I'm fine, but it's over, I was really scared. The first time they slapped me, in the 75th minute, after that I stopped the match, I ran, I called 112, I went out and they caught me in the corner, they surrounded me and I took legs in the back. Mr. Deliu took me off the field, he took me in his arms and took me to the locker room. Poenaru cursed me, I gave him red and he came to beat me“.
Also, the words of the two are completed by Dan Deliu, the coach of the team from Leamna: “Anyway, what happened is not right. The child was shaking when I took him from there, I was left with a bitter taste. I'm not that kind of person and I don't like to see something like that, it's exclusive, I won't support something like that.”
