“Let him go on his belly with his Burca! Has he broken the mouth of the fair too much?”

• Georgia – Romania is played in Tbilisi, on June 2, from 20:00. The match will be broadcast on TV on Antena 1;

• Romania – Wales will be played on June 6, from 20:45, in Bucharest, at the Steaua stadium. The game will be broadcast on Prima TV;

• Both games of the Romanian national team in June can be watched in liveTEXT format on GSP.ro.

The former Olteni defender is unhappy with the fact that Adrian Rus, the stopper from the University of Craiova, and Laurentiu Popescu, the goalkeeper of the team from Bănie, were not summoned. Nicolae Negrilă that Adrian Rus would have been more suitable than Drăgușin or Burcă, and Laurentiu Popescu more suitable than Marian Aioani.

• Craiova University has 6 players called up to the national team: Ștefan Baiaram, Vladimir Screciu, David Matei, Tudor Băluță, Nicușor Bancu and Alexandru Cicâldău. Hagi's list has 31 names: 12 from the Superliga (half from Craiova University) and 19 from abroad.

Nicolae Negrilă, sour after the selection of Gică Hagi: “Did Drăgușin spoil the market too much in the last matches? Let's be serious!”

“I understand Hagi's selection up to a point. However, I am very sorry that he did not summon Popescu and Rus. How to take Aioani in front of Popescu as goalkeeper?

One won the cup and the championship this season, and what did Aioani do at Rapid? How many goals did he score and where is Rapid? I did not expect that Gica would not take Popescu.

And the absence of Rus totally surprises me. If no central defender like Rus doesn't catch the team, after being a rock in the defense of Craiova, then let Gică Hagi go on his belly with his Burcă. He will be responsible for the results, not me. But there's no way you can take at least three of the central defenders that Hagi has summoned in front of Rus. And even this cutie…

Did Drăgușin spoil the market too much in the last matches? Let's be serious! Of all these defenders, none is as fit as the Russian. It's my opinion and I don't care if one or the other gets upset. But I repeat, it is only Hagi's responsibility.

I saw Gane present at our matches and I expected him to explain some things better to Gică, but I don't say anything about Ionel. Gică Hagi was even at some of our matches, but it's a shame that Popescu and Rus were left at home”, said Nicolae Negrilă, according to prosport.ro.

Nicolae Negrilă in a picture from 1983, from the match U Craiova – Poli Timișoara (photo: GSP archive)

The team called by Gică Hagi for the friendly matches with Georgia and Wales

GOALKEEPERS:

• Ionut RADU (Celta Vigo | Spain, 9/0)

• Marian AIOANI (FC Rapid 1923, 1/0)

• Otto HINDRICH (Legia Warsaw | Poland, 0/0);

DEFENDERS:

• Andrei RAțIU (Rayo Vallecano | Spain, 38/2)

• Deian SORESCU (Gaziantep FK | Turkey, 23/0)

• Tony STRATA (Vitória Guimarães | Portugal, 0/0)

• Radu DRĂGUŞIN (Tottenham | England, 29/1)

• Virgil GHIțA (Hannover 96 | Germany, 9/1)

• Bogdan RACOVIȚAN (Raków | Poland, 5/0)

• Andrei COUBIȘ (U Cluj, 1/0)

• Andrei BURCĂ (Yunnan Yukun | China, 45/1)

• Matei ILIE (CFR Cluj, 0/0)

• Lisav EISSAT (Maccabi Haifa | Israel, 2/0)

• Nicușor BANCU (Universitatea Craiova, 52/2)

• Andrei BORZA (FC Rapid 1923, 0/0);

INTERMEDIARIES:

• Răzvan MARIN (AEK Athens | Greece, 74/12)

• Alexandru CICÂLDĂU (Universitatea Craiova, 38/4)

• Vladimir SCRECIU (University of Craiova, 7/0)

• Tudor BĂLUĂ (University of Craiova, 12/0)

• Nicolae STANCIU (Dalian | China, 86/15)

• Vlad DRAGOMIR (Paphos | Cyprus, 7/0)

• Ianis HAGI (Alanyaspor | Turkey, 53/8)

• David MATEI (University of Craiova, 0/0)

ATTACKERS:

• Dennis MAN (PSV | Netherlands, 45/11)

• Olimpiu MORUȚAN (FC Rapid 1923, 17/1)

• Valentin MIHĂILĂ (Caykur Rizespor | Turkey, 35/5)

• Ștefan BAIARAM (Universitatea Craiova, 4/1)

• Alexandru DOBRE (FC Rapid 1923, 6/0)

• Louis MUNTEANU (DC United | USA, 4/2)

• Florinel COMAN (Al-Gharafa | Qatar, 20/2)

• Denis DRĂGUȘ (Gaziantep FK | Turkey, 27/7)