“Mircea Sandu said to the referee: “Put those gypsies from Rapid in his mouth!”” » Shocking revelation from Adrian Porumboiu: “The same shit”

The former patron of Vaslui also revealed on “Friends of Ovidiu” the episode that made him quit after only a week as head of the Central Commission of Referees: a referee allegedly told him that Mircea Sandu had indicated to him before a match what must happen at the end of the game.

“Both FIFA and UEFA protect their referees, not just Vassaras”

– Mr. Porumboiu, what is your opinion about VAR?
– It is good if it is used knowingly and in good faith. I saw this CFR match…

– With Biliboc's offside.
– And Vassaras is coming… Give one more like that, if your head hurts. I also saw fugitive, like that, at Digi Sport.

– The lines seem to be drawn completely out of order.
– It was not taken from where it was taken: the top of the head, the top of the hair, the top of the knee. We give it all the time: “Lord, the software, the software.” Lord, in the end the important thing is that the man is convinced that that error happened and what comes out of the VAR booth is correct! How, all the same, it is mandatory, the referee, after he is notified and sees on the monitor what happened, in 10 seconds he has everything at hand, he announces to the public what is… what is the solution. The world leaves with the thought and business: “Look, that's what the referee said.” He says it in his voice.

– In some countries it is practiced.
– I have dealt with Vassaras many times, but not Vassaras… Vassaras inherits a system that has been used by all the heads of commissions in Romania that have been, less Igna. They defend the referees because they made them. They raised them, they delegated them, they are…

– Parishioners…
– The same thing happens even at the level of FIFA and UEFA. So there is no difference. Both FIFA and UEFA protect their referees because they selected them, they delegated them. And then there is clarification from this, but in a water from this it is soft. It's not okay! But it happens, so we can't just take Vassaras, that only Vassaras would do.

“Judge, be careful and beat those gypsies from Rapid!”

– Do you appreciate Vassaras?
– Sir, he is a foreigner, but he learned Romanian things better than the Romanians. And he participates, and he has a drive belt going on there, from the inside, he also gets some… it's no big deal. When I say this, we are in a trial. I'm speaking in metaphors now. Like in a vulcanization process: you put a patch like this, the patch gets longer and the one where you put it with one hand holds the vulcanizer and he smoothes Vassaras. If you get the metaphor…

– If it were in your power, would you keep him or put someone else?
– After all these years, I think he should… go and someone else come. If not from the Romanians, and there are doubts about one of our Romanians, I think he could come from any other country with a football developed to the Referee Commission, with lessons, with everything necessary, including VAR.

– Hasn't the presidency of the Commission ever tempted you?
– No.

– But no one proposed it to you either.
– Yes, how, sir?! I was the longest time as the president of the Referees Commission: one week! I was there for a week and when I saw what happened after that match, which was Rapid in Bacău…

– That's right.
– I was the president of the Disciplinary Commission within the Referees' Commission and I asked the referee of that match. Now he is vice president at CCA, I am not ashamed to say his name, Savaniu (no. Marcel Savaniu). I asked him if anyone called him before the game. In the end, he said that Mircea Sandu called him. “And what did Mircea Sandu tell you?”. “Judge, be careful and beat those gypsies from Rapid!”.

Marcel Savaniu

– I didn't know you were president for a week.
– I was president for a week and then I left: “Goodbye!”.

– And you abandoned it.
– I wasn't interested and I'm not interested anymore.