Article by Romeo Ene – published Monday, October 13, 2025, 07:27 / Updated Monday, October 13, 2025 07:28
Romania – Austria 1-0. Alexandru Chipciu (36 years old) was the holder of the left defender post. He took his place Nicușor Bancu (33 years old), suspended, and his footballer U Cluj made a big match. In the end, he acknowledged that such a feeling was still living in the national team.
Mircea Lucescu (80 years old) had big headaches on the left side, after his suspension Bancu.
He left him outside the lot on the Opruț river (27 years old), Dinamo's defender, and on the reserve bench he had only on the “non -tin” Kevin Ciubotaru (21 years old), the one who had debuted 3 days ago, in the friendly with Moldova.
Alex Chipciu, immediately after Romania – Austria 1-0: “This life is something you cannot explain, you go through unreal moments”
“Il Luce” went on his hand Chipciuthe one who paid perfectly with tasks, and finally collapsed on the ground following the effort he made.
“It's a dream. I don't know if I lived in my life, in the national team, maybe in a match with Hungary, when I equalized, but they were not supporters, that it was away, but on this stadium, with these people, to give in the last minute, and against a big team.
I was thinking now: what's this life, it's crazy! This life is something you cannot explain, you go through unreal moments.
I made a very good, very aggressive game and beat a big national, I say. I honestly didn't think about points at all, nothing, I only thought of this match. I dreamed.
I think this victory is important regardless of the place we will finish. We will see if we will go to the League of Nations Dam, tonight showed that it can“, Said Chipciu, according to As.ro.
We have to tie this match, and this match gives us hope. It has been seen tonight that it is very important to have feet. At Vlad Dragomir I saw legs of Champions League, a man who runs from the first to the last minute.
Bosnia is missing the two central defenders tonight, maybe we will put some problems. Rațiu remains, Bancu is probably on the left side. If you change Chipciu now, after that match, you don't know what to do. You see Stanciu, Răzvan Marin, will come. What are you doing? Maybe cute, but more complicated.
– Basarab Panduruat the first sport
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