The surprise from Dinamo! The footballer that Mircea Lucescu has in mind for the first national team
Article by David Marinescu – Published Wednesday, November 19, 2025, 1:48 p.m. / Updated Wednesday, November 19, 2025, 1:53 p.m.
Mircea Lucescu, 80 years oldstudies an extensive list of Superliga players who can gradually make the step towards the national team. Among them is Andrei Mărginean, 24 years old, the versatile footballer of the “dogs”. The selector was interested in the midfielder who can also develop as a defender!
Mircea Lucescu, 80 years old, continues as Romania's coach. One day, one week, one month… Until before the play-offs or after the play-off in March 2026 to grab a ticket to next year's World Championship in extremis.
“Only I resign!”, shouted the technician at the press conference before the game with San Marino (7-1). The coach continues to look for solutions for the first representative team.
Mircea Lucescu has his sights on the dynamist Andrei Mărginean for the national team. He also spoke with the people from Dinamo!
That's why, for a long time, he compiled a list of footballers from the Super League who can make the step in the shortest possible time to the national team. And he collected multiple information about them.
According to GSP.ro information, among the young players that Il Luce is monitoring in order to consider them for an action of his formation is Andrei Mărginean, 24 years old. The versatile football player from Dinamo, occupying the 3rd place in the Superliga.
In 2025, the player became more and more important for Zeljko Kopic. Either midfielder or center back was used depending on the team's needs. Proving that the “pack” can rely on him, Mărginean – a footballer trained in Il Calcio for six years, at various clubs – convinced Dinamo to pay 450,000 euros to Sassuolo to purchase him permanently.
Mircea Lucescu watched Andrei at various matches and also asked the people from Dinamo, leaders and coaches, about how the footballer is during training sessions and off the pitch.
Mărginean is a footballer who has played for all the Romanian national teams, waiting for the moment when he will make his debut for the first national team.
10matches Mărginean collected this season, also having two assists. In total, he has 43 matches, 2 goals and 3 assists since wearing the shirt of the “dogs”
Mircea Lucescu remained close to Dinamo
Even if at the action in November, which closed the WC 2026 preliminaries campaign, the selector did not call up any player of the red-whites, Lucescu also keeps an eye on a close friend of the team on the podium of League 1.
In the last period, he bet on Raul Opruț and Cătălin Cîrjan in various actions of the national team. He visited Zeljko Kopic's team – with whom he has a very good relationship – in training and friendlies, including outside the country.
The president of Dynamo, Andrei Nicolescu, talking with Mircea Lucescu, in January 2025, in the internship in Antalya
After a few years ago he supported an initiative of the Doar Dinamo Bucharest program, through a friendly in Kiev, when the 275,000 euros needed to obtain the League 1 license for the “dogs” were collected, in the summer of 2023, immediately after the team's return to the Super League, he agreed to a friendly in Austria between the two Dinamos.
