Article by Tudor Belivacă – Published on Tuesday, 02 June 2026, 22:35 / Updated on Tuesday, 02 June 2026 22:36
Ianis Hagi talked about what it's like to work with his father again and what Gheorghe Hagi told him before the start of the game.
Ianis Hagi started the match in Tbilisi as the starter and with the armband on his shoulder. He was replaced in the 63rd minute by Tudor Băluță.
Ianis Hagi reacted after Georgia – Romania: “He told me to be me, to move a lot between the lines, to move a lot between the lines”
“I don't know if we are very happy with the result, but we are happy that we managed to apply, more or less, what we worked on this week. We have a lot of work to do with the requirements of the technical staff. When we managed to do what they asked of us from the sidelines, the opportunities came, we had control of the game through the two principles: possession and pressure.
There were also moments when we didn't keep the pace as we wanted. We have work to do there, the requirements are a little higher. We can understand, it's fatigue, the end of the championship. Lots of changes, players who haven't played together before. All in all, I am positive because what we worked on in training we managed to apply in training, but we clearly wanted to win.
No, he didn't tell me anything special. The messages I already knew in the sea. To be me, to move a lot between the lines, to move a lot between the lines, to ask for a lot of balls in the offensive phase and to help the team a lot in the defensive phase. We worked a lot collectively in the last 7-10 days. A lot of information, we tried to capture and assimilate as much as possible of what they told us. There are things to improve, but overall we are satisfied and the direction is good.
It's a bigger responsibility. The pressure is regardless of whether you wear the armband or not. You know how much the national team means to me. The responsibility is clearly greater, but I feel good, I feel that I am able to help the team, I am quite vocal on the field, off the field I like to lead by example, to try to bring others to my side. We are more leaders, more captains, with international experience, and the technical staff has a lot of expectations, and the young ones who are catching up let's adapt them as quickly as possible and get results. In the national team, I don't think age is important, performance matters”, said Ianis Hagi, according to as.ro.
