“He made me read the newspaper in the locker room and saved Dan Petrescu!” »Former Rapidist, unforgettable memory with Daniel Prodan
Article by George Nistor – published on Thursday, July 03, 2025, 17:29 / Updated Thursday, July 3, 2025 17:29
Ovidiu Herea (40 years old) He recalled one of the events of the player's career. The former offensive midfielder from Rapid remembered with pleasure the time spent at FC National, between 2003-2007, in which he divided the cab with heavy names of Romanian football.
Among them were the late Daniel Prodan and Dan Petrescu, the current coach of CFR Cluj. The Herea told what jokes were made in the locker room of the band “Park with the platans”, but also how it was adopted by the first team of the club for when it was just a kid.
Prodan was the one who helped to integrate, but in the beginning he had to go through the well -known “baptism”, usually that the players at the beginning of the road have to carry out various “missions”, some nasty, some shameful.
The challenge Daniel Prodan gave Ovidiu Herea
Ovidiu Herea told Podcasta Business Philosophy, that his “baptism” at FC National was fun, but also embarrassing at the same time. Didi Prodan has been responsible from the first moment and asked him to present the freshest information in Romanian football, reading the newspaper.
Later, Dan Petrescu was the one who intervened so that the moment did not continue.
“There was a fashion. Like the footballer, when he came to the locker room, to have newspapers, the cafe, to stay, to read, to drink his coffee. When I first entered the locker room, at FC National, I asked everyone if it is a place for me, of course, that didi (no-prodan),
He gave me the newspaper and said “kid, read until I change!”.
I started, I couldn't refuse Didi, I was ashamed first. I started to read aloud, I blushed, I had emotions, in the end I was saved by Dan Petrescu, he said “Well, Didi, leave him, that he is a child! They do not do them, ”said Ovidiu Herea.
VIDEO. The memories of Ovidiu Herea with Didi Prodan and Dan Petrescu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7riuqnmo24
“Respect in the locker room disappeared”
The former peak is convinced that now, in a locker room, it is not very important about the status of the players, so that respect is less present.
The incident from FC National was not repeated in his career.
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Ovidiu Herea started his career at FC National Bucharest (2003-2007), so that he would evolve at Rapid (2007-2013), FC Sion (2013-2015), Skoda Xanthi (2015-2016), Pandurii Târgu Jiu (2016), Concordia Chiajna (2017), Viitorul Constanța (2017), CS Balotești (2018), CS Balotești (2018–2022).
At Syon I was already old, I arrived at 28 in Switzerland, and at Xanthi at 30, I already had an experience, these things are done so when these little ones come and they first contact the first team, but at these older ones, so it is difficult to give them baptism. That respect also disappeared, when we entered, children, in the locker room, there was that respect, you could not shoot with that person or to answer them. You accept criticism, put your head on the ground and you had to eat that land to get rid of those critics.
– Ovidiu Herea
