Gigi Becali, the owner of FCSB, reacted after Răzvan Burleanu, the president of the Romanian Football Federation (FRF), said that the renunciation of Rule 21 would bring Romanian football several years ago.
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“The renunciation of the U21 rule, as Mr. Becali wants, I think he would take Romanian football 5-6 years ago”, Said Răzvan Burleanu, in a press conference, after Gigi Becali transmitted that he was working on a law on eliminating the U21 rule in Romanian football. Also, the FRF president announced on Thursday, April 24, that the 5+6 rule, through which the clubs in the first league are obliged to use at least 5 Romanian players, a national players, a national players, has been formed. so that from the next season of the Supergel the groups that will not respect it will be sanctioned with 150,000 euros.
Gigi Becali, who was elected deputy on the gold lists, said he would not give up his initiative in Parliament.
“Let me tell you why they did so with the 5+6 rule. Because he was a law, Minister Novak then made a law. Another is to make a law to play with players and, if not, pay a fine or not receive money, another is to be obliged. There is a difference between forcing someone and penalizing yourself if you do not. Here they respected the law and the Constitution. When you say you are obliged to put a U21 player, the Constitution is violated. We will see, it is not that you return football, but that you must respect laws, the Constitution of Romania and the laws of nature. You do not have to violate the laws with a decision taken in the Executive Committee. This is not where someone comes to grow football with some rules“, Becali told Digi Sport.
The FCSB boss also stated that he set out to make football according to the laws.
“I set out to do football according to the laws, I did not intend to grow Romanian football. If they want to grow it, they grow it (FRF no), that they must grow it. Is their problem, am I manager at the federation? It’s Youth League – they didn’t do it? It’s their problem. To pay money to teams to use 2 or 3 players. With money things are done. (,,,) do you want to do football? He puts money and pays the team to use U21. If they have no money, football will develop when they have money. I am not put to develop Romanian football. Well, what, there (in Parliament no), are I hood from Coceni? There everyone loves me. You will see how it will be to vote“, Becali added.
