Article by Ovidiu Ioanițoaia – published on Saturday, 07 June 2025, 14:18 / Updated on Saturday, 07 June 2025 14:25
Courtyard by Marriott, the hotel where the “tricolors” stand in Vienna and where they will leave on Sunday morning, is not very elegant and so very expensive.
It is listed at 4 stars, which is why a standard double room costs around 200 euros. Depending on the season, even something over. Placed in the Prater Messe area, considered by the leisure, the hotel was chosen by FRF because it is only 500-600 meters from the Ernst Happel stadium, 50,000 places, the largest in Austria.
Every football lover knows who Ernst Happel was. Player and famous coach, whose teams won trophies in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and Austria, as well as, on two occasions, the European Champions Cup. With Feyenoord in 1970 and with Hamburger SV in 1983.
In 1992, after Happel died of 66 years of lung cancer, Praterstadion, opened in 1931 and renovated in 1986, was his name.
As the road traffic in Vienna, a city with a population of over two million inhabitants, is at least crowded, right in the evening, the federal option for a hotel near the stadium that will host the Austria-Romania match is understandable.
And yet, Counced by Marriott was not designed to host a football team. As such, for our national team to enjoy a space of only hers and Stanciu et Co not to mix with the other guests of the 8 -storey establishment, so that they are not disturbed by them, they reserved for about 3 quarters of the central hall.
Panels that separate the tricolors from the other tourists in the hotel
Inside the respective surface, closed by mobile panels inscribed with private space, Mircea Lucescu's footballers ate and held short meetings. As some of the meetings had a technical character, to prepare the party on Saturday night, obviously, privacy was needed.
For which reason, the aforementioned panels were mounted, which seem to have opposed some or even disturbed others. For the same reason, logically, the 20-30 supporters of the national team came for photos with players or autographs did not allow them to enter the hotel.
The reception is working, among others, Alex Poșa, 29 years old, born in Timișoara and established in 2017 in Austria. First “in a small town on the border with Germany, where we set wheels at a motorcycle factory.” And from 2023, right here, in Vienna.
Ovidiu Ioanițoaia and Alex Poșa, at the reception of the hotel in which the national of Romania is accommodated in Vienna
From where, if he will leave somewhere, he will only be in the United States, provided he accompany him, as a wife, his fiancée, Nadine. I deduced that this theme is debated, but they have not yet made a decision.
Although Alex did not die after football, “I look at the national and I regret that Timisoara is no longer in the second league”, he is the one who invented the slogan “A team-three colors”, in front of which we photographed together.
Aware that Austria is strong, he is convinced that “Romania will win with 2-0, and Man, my neighbor from Arad, will score a goal, so I would like and enjoy with all my soul!”.
It wouldn't be bad to prove the prognosis of Alex Poșa, right? Come on, Romania!
