Article by Alexandru Stanciu – Published Tuesday, May 19, 2026 9:01 p.m. / Updated Tuesday, May 19, 2026 9:41 p.m.
Mihai Stoica (61 years old), the president of the FCSB Board of Directors, spoke about the appointment of Marius Baciu (51 years old) as the team's new coach and explained the two reinforcements that the technician requested in the staff.
In addition to the already structured staff of Lucian Filip, Alin Stoica, Marius Popa, Ionuț Zottu and Horea Codorean, Marius Baciu also co-opted Sorin Bucuroaia and Alexandru Ioniță.
Mihai Stoica, about the new members of the FCSB staff: “Baciu completed it with two people he knew”
“Bucuroaia is an older collaborator of Baciu's. He was a footballer, he did the junior team at Dinamo. I think he was raised by Ionuț Chirilă, in Tararache's generation.
And Alexandru Ioniță was a coach at our academy, with the group of players born in 2014. Marius said “I know him, I worked with him and I want him to be a Methodist too”. He is also on the staff. He kept the old staff and supplemented it with two people he knew and worked with in the past.
He had no emotions at the first speech in front of the players, I am very careful about these things. I like emotions and I've seen people who on the field, as players, were creepy, and when they spoke in front of the players they melted with emotions. Baciu seemed to be a man who returned after many years, hardened by adventures and who has absolutely no emotion. His voice did not betray any emotion”, declared Mihai Stoica, at Prima Sport.
Asked if the fact that he was a colleague on the set with Marius Baciu contributed to the decision to appoint him as a coach, Mihai Stoica replied: “It was decisive. I didn't know Marius Baciu, and talking to him gives you the revelations when you don't know someone and you talk to him.
There are many people who mock, who offend, many analysts who want to stand out by mocking, or some by seriously offending. I have never seen Ilie Dumitrescu at Digi take someone over the leg as it often happens with others. Marius is clearly ours”.
Mihai Stoica, comparison between the CVs of Filipe Coelho and Marius Baciu: “Baciu is better after all”
At the end of the intervention, Mihai Stoica also spoke about the success of Filipe Coelho on the bench of the University of Craiova: “Charalambous had been Iraola's second in command. Indeed, Iraola is a giant now. But Charalambous had been that. What he had trained in Cyprus was beyond belief.
There is also something else, a foreigner does not have the pressure of a Romanian. If we are to put Coelho's CV at the time he came to Craiova and Baciu's CV, Baciu is better in the end. There will be immense pressure on Marius Baciu, there was no pressure on Coelho. He had been in Liga 3 in Portugal and Paulo Bento's second-in-command. But there was no pressure, here (no at FCSB) is the pressure of the world”.
