The new head coach of the Romanian national team, Mircea Lucescu, in the course of solving the problem of strengthening the composition of the national team, turned his eyes to the midfielder of Italian origin "Sassuolo" Daniel Bolocu.
Daniel BolokaThe 79-year-old specialist personally came to Italy and had a three-hour conversation with the player. But in the end he was turned down.
"I really appreciate you, Mr. Lucescu, I am one of the great admirers of you and your career, but I clearly said that I will not play for the Romanian national team and I can not break my word," - so argued his refusal Boloca, reports Fanatik.
It should be noted that the 25-year-old midfielder grew up in Italy and is a pupil of Juventus Turin. In 2022, he received a debut call-up to the Romanian national team and played for it in a friendly match. However, Boloca was later disappointed by this: "I never thought I would be called up to the national team. But when I came to Romania, I realized what a mistake I had made. I was wrong to accept this invitation".
The current position of the footballer is due to the fact that he hopes to get a call-up to the Italian national team. It is for this reason that he even refused to play for the Romanian national team at Euro 2024.
