The former head coach of Kyiv’s “Dynamo” Mircea Lucescu, who now heads the Romania national team, could not contain his irritation during Radu Naum’s show on Digi Sport.
Mircea LucescuThe topic of conversation was the performance of the Romanian national team in the qualifying cycle for the 2026 World Cup: two defeats (to Bosnia and Herzegovina and Austria) in the first four matches of the campaign significantly reduced the “tricolor’s” chances of qualifying for the World Cup.
Mircea Lucescu: If it hadn’t been for the epidemic of injuries, I don’t think we would have had problems winning these two matches. No problems! But when you play without all the injured, Dragushin, Mana, Stancu, Mihaila, Coman, Yanis Hadji...
Radu Naum: But you could immediately aim for the fact that you need to create a national team from those who are available, rather than from those we dream of, and not rely on them always being on the field, because that won’t happen. I want to say that I don’t think you will have the lineup you dream of.
Mircea Lucescu: Radu, I’m 80 years old, and I’ve been working as a coach for 50 years, don’t tell me what I should do!
