Article by Alexandru Stanciu – Published Wednesday, October 22, 2025 7:21 p.m. / Updated Wednesday, October 22, 2025 7:49 p.m.
Mihai Stoica (60 years old), the president of the Board of Directors from FCSBrevealed that Andrei Dăncuș, the 16-year-old footballer of the defending champion, can soon get a starting position in the big team, considering the crisis in the center of the defense.
The only professional centre-back that FCSB have at their disposal at the moment is Siyabonga Ngezana, while Joyskim Dawa, Mihai Popescu and Vlad Chiricheș are injured. Daniel Graovac recently returned to training, but he cannot play 90 minutes with Bologna, claims Mihai Stoica.
Mihai Stoica found the solution for the problems in the center of defense at FCSB
“If you finish first in the play-offs and play the play-offs, you have a better chance of playing in the European cups. 6th and 5th in the play-offs go nowhere.
Naturally we want to play in the play-offs, but when Metaloglobus beats you, you beat Argeș at home, Farul at home, Slobozia at home, you can't beat Sibiu or Csikszereda, you have big problems.
We have a lot of games to play this year and we have very, very big squad problems, because where the thread is thin, it breaks, and look what happens to our centre-backs. It's unreal to lose them all.
We are not thinking of bringing central defenders free of contract. If a player is free, he is free from May-June. And then what to do with it? I had seven million variations.
Today our Youth League team played against Croatian champions Dinamo Zagreb (no – Lokomotiva Zagreb), who used players born in 2006-2007.
Andrei Dăncuș, first from the left, among FCSB seniors. Photo: Cristi Preda (GSP)
We, apart from the fact that we didn't have Toma and Stoian, who were eligible, the only team that used a player born in 2009 was us.
Andrei Dăncuș played this match, being 16 years old, and he did it very well. It is possible that Andrei Dăncuș will play, because he is a central defender. After all, what can we risk, in the situation we are in?“, declared Mihai Stoica, at Prima Sport.
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