Article by Romeo Ene – Published on Tuesday, 09 June 2026, 21:40 / Updated on Tuesday, 09 June 2026 21:42
Andrei Nicolescu, its president Dinamowas challenged to evaluate Zeljko Kopic (48), the coach who he left the club at the end of the recently completed season.
Under the command of the Croatian technician, Dinamo finished the championship in 4th place and reached the semi-finals of the Romanian Betano Cup, where it was eliminated by Craiova University after penalty kicks.
Andrei Nicolescu evaluated Zeljko Kopic
The head of the dynamists awarded him the grade 7-8 in the chapter on the relationship with the players, considering that he could handle certain situations better.
Throughout Kopic's tenure there have also been tensions with some footballers. One of the most famous cases was that of the Dane Patrick Olsen (32 years old), who had several disagreements with the Croatian coach before parting ways with Dinamo at the end of last season.
Instead, Nicolescu had nothing but praise for Kopic when it came to the team's preparation. Dinamo's president gave him a 10 in the training section, a 9 for personality and the maximum mark for character.
Also, the head of the “dogs” declared himself satisfied with the way the Croatian managed the moments during the games, giving him an 8-9 mark for the changes made during the matches, in an intervention on the “Footbal Show” show from Prima Sport.
Andrei Nicolescu's qualifications:
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Personality: 9
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workouts: 10
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The relationship with the players: 7-8
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Motivational: 8. It's hard to say, because they formed a team and even if… it was important to have a motivator, a motivating factor in the staff. You can't ask a coach to be a very good motivator, to give a speech that leaves people speechless. He had Croatian blood, from that perspective yes.
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Character: 10
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Tactician: I think we could have been a bit more versatile, so 8-9, something. For example, in the Cup match in Craiova it didn't matter to him, it matters to the experience of a central defender, a goalkeeper, it matters to an elementary thing of a player who knows that he is two minutes away from playing a final.
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Eyes on players, transfers: Very attentive, very attentive to details, from the perspective of analysis. From an options perspective I don't know, there's no way I can manage that. A lot of times we had different perspectives in that the scouting side and the analytics department and the athletic director would have had more options than we accessed.
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Changes during the match: 8-9, I had no problems with it.
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Relations with the press: 10.
Zeljko Kopic, former coach of Dinamo
