Article by Marius Mărgărit – published Tuesday, October 14, 2025, 6:58 pm / Updated Tuesday, October 1425 7:09 pm
I admit that I was left with a bitter taste after the intervention of Mircea Lucescu at Fanatik.ro. in which, football, Răzvan Marin's football and, through Ricoșeu, even Nicolae Stanciu. Why do you do this with some people you relied on to the beginning of the mandate, when you needed help?!
Hard to explain, to understand, even to admit, although in today's world, when the purpose has come to excuse any means, it has become law.
To a point, I can understand the coach. At 80 years old, the most gallant Romanian technician in history, with an impressive track record, hard to reach, with so much experience gathered from all over the world and at all levels, he no longer wants to account for anyone. It can also be seen at the meetings with the press, when it is a counseling-nostalgic-energos, it suddenly decides that ready, no longer answers questions and leaves.
Although certainly, from the height of the pedestal that I raised, when it appears at the press conferences, the flash-interviews before and after the matches, he does not talk to the journalists, but with the people, the supporters. At home, in the family, in the circle of friends, in the civilian, he can say “I do not like!”. As a coach, no!
It was seen how the fans who had been to the matches asked the fences why he did not use Baiaram, Mitriță, why that or the other. They wanted answers and, until something else is invented, the only option to be explained through the press. But that's another story.
Returning to the one with Răzvan Marin and Nicolae Stanciu, I can't help but wonder if Mircea Lucescu did the two correctly. Yes, it is true, it was clear that the yield of the two to the national team was decreasing. Life, years, wear, team changes, football culture, leave traces, do not forgive anyone.
Totally I agree that fresh blood was needed. But to say to say that you wanted to be an elegant separation, with respect for what they had done so far, and now you will release them publicly, that you wanted to give up anyway, not play with them, it does not seem to me at all.
I tend to believe that Mircea Lucescu would not have had this speech if he had not defeated Austria. Although he may have done it, because of lack of pride, and good and bad, he cannot be accused. The last example was clear: “The victory with Austria is mine, first of all, then the players!”
Because he wants to show everyone that he is a boss, that he decides everything. And he holds her loud voice, not to be doubtful. As if someone had questioned that.
Yes, Mircea Lucescu must and can decide who calls, who plays, how much he plays, who enters the national team. This is normal and this is indisputable. But, as Răzvan Marin said at Digisport, normal and elegant was to say simply, in front, that he was not based on him.
Not to say publicly, after “injured”, the ones from AEK Athens, used by this pretext, unreal, to take him out of the team, not play with him. That was really a free. Ugly! Said Adrian Porumboiu, in an intervention for GSP.ro, that “we only know how to kill each other, in Romanian football”. Unfortunately, not only in football, but everywhere.
But I think that in the wisdom and intelligence it has, Mircea Lucescu could go over this episode. To find a way, even elegant to the end, to convey to his students that either changes something or does not change at all in the national locker room.
When did it wrong, in fact? When he called them and used them, although they had problems, Răzvan did not play, Nicușor had lost his desert? Or now, when do they reproach them in the view and hearing of the world?! I don't think he won something with this public execution. Sometimes even when you win, you can actually lose. Time will tell us if much or more.
