Mircea Lucescu announced the preliminary list of foreigners for the matches with Bosnia and San Marino: huge SURPRISE!
Article by Romeo Ene – Published Friday, October 24, 2025, 1:47 p.m. / Updated Friday, October 24, 2025, 1:51 p.m.
Mircea Lucescu (80 years old), Romania's coach, announced the preliminary list of foreigners for the games in November, the last in group H of the World Championship preliminaries: Bosnia (movement, November 15) and San Marino (Ploiesti, “Ilie Oană”, November 18). All attention is focused on the “final” in Zenica. With a win, the “tricolors” take a serious option for occupying the 2nd place in the group.
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Bosnia – Romania will be played on Saturday, November 15, from 21:45.
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Romania – San Marino it will take place three days later, on November 18, from 21:45.
“Il Luce” maintains most of the names summoned to the previous actions of the “tricolors”, but SURPRISE names also appear!
Drăgușin returns to this list as happened to the one for the matches with Moldova and Austria after the serious injury he suffered in February, rupture of the cruciate ligament in his knee.
What does the preliminary list of foreigners look like for the parties with Bosnia and San Marino
IMPORTANT! The final batch, which will be made up of some of the foreigners below plus the players from the domestic competition, will be announced later, according to frf.ro.
Here is the preliminary list with the 21 footballers playing for clubs abroad:
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porter: Ionuț RADU (Celta de Vigo | Spain, 6/0), Horațiu MOLDOVAN (Real Oviedo | Spain, 16/0), Răzvan SAVA (Udinese | Italy, 0/0);
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defense: Andrei RAȚIU (Rayo Vallecano | Spain, 34/1), Deian SORESCU (Gaziantep FK | Turkey, 23/0), Virgil GHIȚĂ (Hannover 96 | Germany, 6/1), Bogdan RACOVIȚAN (Raków | Poland, 4/0), Ionuț NEDELCEARU (Akron Togliatti | Russia, 27/2), Radu DRĂGUȘIN (Tottenham | England, 27/1), Lisav EISSAT (Maccabi Haifa | Israel, 1/0);
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midfielders: Marius MARIN (Pisa | Italy, 34/0), Răzvan MARIN (AEK Athens | Greece, 70/12), Vlad DRAGOMIR (Paphos | Cyprus, 3/0), Olimpiu MORUȚAN (Aris Thessaloniki | Greece, 17/1), Nicolae STANCIU (Genoa | Italy, 84/15), Ianis HAGI (Alanyaspor | Turkey, 49/7), Rareș ILIE (Empoli | Italy, 0/0);
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ATTACKERS: Dennis MAN (PSV | Netherlands, 41/10), Valentin MIHĂILĂ (Caykur Rizespor | Turkey, 32/5), Florinel COMAN (Al-Gharafa | Qatar, 20/2), Denis DRĂGUȘ (Eyüpspor | Turkey, 26/7).
The “Tricolori” have 10 points after the first 6 matches played (three wins, a draw and two failures), being five points away from Austria and three from Bosnia.
After the match with Austria, won 1-0, the selector Mircea Lucescu (80 years old) announced that he is ready to resign if he does not qualify the team from first place.
A few days later, he qualified his statement and admitted that he might change his mind.
Ranking from the Romania group
Tickets to Romania – San Marino
Tickets are available online on the website bilete.frf.ro. Their price is between 30 RON (lawns) and 80 RON (stands 1 and 2, central), and young people will get a discount. Both children under the age of 15 (10 RON) and young people between 15 and 24 (30 RON in the stands) will benefit from a preferential price when purchasing tickets.
Children who are not yet 15 years old will have access to the area intended for families, “Stands 1 and 2 Family Zone”, choosing the type of ticket (child) when placing the order. Children's data must be entered into the system for subsequent generation of dedicated tickets.
Orders can include a maximum of 4 tickets, with the exception of those in the Family Zone, which can contain up to 5 tickets, at least one of which needs to be allocated to a child under 15. At the time of purchase, a processing fee of 2 RON will be applied to each ticket.
