coach Gică Hagi (61 years old) announced that the batch for his first action in this mandate as a selector will include 33 names. The newspaper presents the list of players from the domestic championship that Hagi has in mind.
In Gică Hagi's first action in this mandate as a selector, Romania will face Georgia (Tbilisi, June 2) and Wales (Bucharest, June 6) in friendly matches.
Gică Hagi's extended list includes 29 players from the Superliga
Two weeks before match 1, Hagi held a press conference in which he announced that “we will take 33 players, 3 per position”. There will be two exceptions to this rule: for the left back position he chose 4 players, which means that for another of the positions only two names will compete.
On the extended list, from where he will cut some names to remain with 33 players, Gică Hagi has 29 footballers from the domestic championship. As he announced, the champion Universitatea Craiova “will have more players in the squad than any other team in Romania”.
In addition to those 7-8 players from Bănie that Gazeta presented to him on Wednesday, Hagi also has footballers from 8 Superliga teams in its sights. And Rapid could be strongly represented in the lot, with 6 players on the extended list of the selector.
The players from the Superliga on the list of the selector Gică Hagi
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Hermannstadt – Kevin Ciubotaru
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Dinamo – Raul Opruț, Cătălin Cîrjan
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FC Arges – Mario Tudose, Yanis Pîrvu
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CFR Cluj – Andrei Cordea, Lorenzo Biliboc, Mihai Popa, Matei Ilie
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The lighthouse – Denis Alibec
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Rapid – Claudiu Petrila, Denis Ciobotariu, Marian Aioani, Andrei Borza, Olimpiu Moruțan, Alex Dobre
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U Cluj – Andrei Coubiș
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FCSB – Florin Tănase, David Miculescu, Mihai Popescu and Darius Olaru
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Craiova – Laurentiu Popescu, Nicușor Bancu, Adrian Rus, Vladimir Screciu, Tudor Băluță, Alexandru Cicâldău, Ștefan Baiaram, Luca Băsceanu
Me personally, keep this in mind, I like to use everyone I get. There are no reserves in the national team. There are very good players on very good teams.
They are important people and I don't consider any player a reserve. On the contrary, they are important players. I hope to be inspired in the decisions, but I will use everyone as much as I can, especially since we have 4 games in a row in September.
– Gică Hagi, Romania selector
