The former head coach of Kyiv’s Dynamo, and now the coach of the Romanian national team Mircea Lucescu, cited the professionalism of Ukrainian midfielder Viktor Tsygankov from Spanish "Girona," placing him in the same league as Lionel Messi.
Mircea Lucescu“At the core of tournaments of the highest level lies passion. There are footballers who can cry after losing a final, Messi loses a match, goes into the locker room, sits down, and cries. Our Tsygankov cried in Kyiv.
Such players go all the way. Their preparation is extraordinary. I constantly tell our players that the main weapon in opposition is preparation. Our players are not used to running so much in the Romanian championship, but I think they can compensate for it with their preparation,” Lucescu said at one of the press conferences during the June matches of the Romanian national team in the qualification cycle for the 2026 World Cup.
