Article by Alexandru Tomuțiu – published on Saturday, August 23, 2025, 13:32 / Updated on Saturday, August 23, 2025 13:38
The controversy caused by Gabriel Bodescu, Deputy Secretary General of the Federation, when drawing for the play-off of the Romanian Cup, arrived in The Sun. English journalists wrote an article about the moment spent at the football house.
The British saw how Gabriel Bodescu held his hand on the bile of the Corvin, so that all this would be the next out of the ballot box and named the moment in the title as being “The most tricked drawing lots always”.
What the British wrote about the moment spent when drawing in the Romanian Cup
The British from The Sun told the moment that caused the controversy: “A lot for the Romanian Cup has attracted trick accusations due to the bizarre way in which a ball was extracted. The controversy appeared after drawing the Play-off of the Romanian Cup on Tuesday.
Gabriel Bodescu, deputy secretary general of the Romanian Football Federation, can be seen in the video trying to mix the balls in a small and overloaded lottery bowl.
He extracts the Constanta Lighthouse, which currently occupies the sixth place in the first division of Romania. Bodescu then starts to mix the balls, but it always seems to remain in contact with a certain ball while mixing it through the pile.
Then he extracts the ball and opens it, announcing that the lighthouse will face a team from the 2nd League, Corvin Hunedoara. The Romanian Football Federation issued a statement that denies any possibility of trick. Instead, they acknowledged their mistake to use small bowls, referring to the effect they had on limiting the organizers' ability to mix. ”
