At 23, Radu Drăgușin is the tricolor who plays at the highest level in European football. The Tottenham stop is the only Romanian in the Premier League, considered the hottest championship in the world. It was bought by London on January 11, 2024 with 25,000,000 euros, becoming the most expensive Romanian player in history. It exceeded the sum of 23 million euros paid by Chelsea to Parma in 2003 for Adrian Mutu. In order to fulfill his dream, Premier League, the player born in Bucharest refused Bayern Munich. Without being a glittering talent, the “dragon” has a childhood and teenager behind work and seriousness. We present to you the leader of Romania through the testimonies of the coaches who guided his steps during the training period.
Radu, marked with arrow, in the Royal Atletico Madrid shirt. Coach Radu Gabriel, up, right
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Taken by Juventus Torino from the school -in -law by Atletico Madrid
Currently in the process of recovery after an injury, Radu is looking for a way to win in Tottenham. However, his ascension in Romania is little or not known and not only the basic retains the Royal Sport episode, a private club in the Capital established by the businessman Claudiu Florică and from where he was recruited by Juventus Torino (despite the fact that he had a partnership with the Atletico Madrid club). The collaboration of the Royal with the Spaniards ended even when the Italians found and put their hands on the Romanian “treasure”. In 2018, Drăgușin transferred to Juve for the amount of 260,000 euros. Initially player under 17, Drăgușin passed the Juventus sub-19 team. At Juventus Na found space, so he was borrowed from other teams in series A: Sampdoria, Salernitana and Genoa. At the last club he “exploded”, leaving questions like: how was it possible for a private club, in the meantime, to produce such a footballer and who were his mentors?
“Stay in defense”!
The “truth” followed in the footsteps that Drăgușin stepped on and found the coaches who formed in children and juniors on the defender. The two are Iulian Stavrică (46 years old) and Radu Gabriel (48 years old). Both provided us with pictures of Radu short at the beginning of his adventure in football and wearing pleats, then, when he physically dominated the group of colleagues. Stavrică was the first on the hands of Radu. He was 7 years old and was brought to the land from his mother, Svetlana, former basketball player in the Romanian national. From 7 to 11 years old, Radu Drăgușin has learned the mysteries of football at Sport, guided by Stavrica. The teacher had what to grind, because the defender did not give the technique out of the house. “Radu had played basketball at the amateur level, and in football he did not hit the extraordinary foot. So I said to him: Stay in defense! Besides, it was big. Not to have been naughty or big mouth, for they would have excluded itself”, Stavrică says, which keeps in touch with his former student weekly. Radu was brought to training by parents, brothers, or benefited from the goodwill of other parents.
At Sport, with stavrică. Radu is the first on the left, the top of the PHOTO Personal Collection
Colleagues one and one
In the guild of children and juniors, Stavrică is nicknamed the “children’s thief”. He even recognizes her. “I get used to putting my eyes on a player, from Bucharest or from the country, and I bring him to football. Recently, I found in the park a child born in 2013, with a height of 1.91 meters, and I immediately put it in the gate“Says the current coach from Concordia Chiajna, whose career motto, related to Drăgușin and not only, could be:” I trained it, others stole it “! In the group from Sport, a club recognized for the training and promotion of young talents, Radu Drăgușin was a colleague with Andrei Gheorghiță and Octavian Popescu (both now at FCSB), then he had colleagues at the Royal of the moment from U Cluj, Vladislav Blănuță, as well as Ovidiu Perianu (ex-FCSB). Their group, of which the dynamovist Cătălin Cârjan was also a part, earned national treadmills.
Picul Radu, first left photo collection
“He hit the ball better with his head than with his foot”
In 2013, the sport was abolished, collapsing under the disastrous management of Vasile Șiman, and the teachers and children each sought another road. Wishing to follow his mentor, Drăgușin came to a private club. Along with Stavrica, and two other coaches from Sport, Radu Gabriel and Cătălin Cijmaș, signed with Royal Sport Atletico Madrid. At the Royal, the stop learned other mysteries from Radu Gabriel, now a coach at Jiul Petrosani, in the 3rd League, but also passed on FCSB. “I worked about two years and seven months with Radu. I had good conditions at the royal. The children from the performance groups paid nothing. No cantonments, no meals. The club pays everything. They were hardened in tournaments abroad: Portugal, Italy … in the country, they had little rivals. Radu’s group also wins at local and national level. Champions came out in 2012, in 2013 … Radu do not know if he was missing from any training. At the Regal Sport Atletico Madrid was working after the Metodology from Atletico Madrid. The fur was from outside Bucharest and stood at the fireplace”, The coach reveals. Like Iulian Stavrică, Radu Gabriel does not want to open the subject Vasile Șiman.
With Radu Gabriel in the picture there are fur, Tavi Popescu, Gheorghiță and Perianu PHOTO Personal Collection
Don’t repeat the mistakes
Radu Gabriel believes it is just a problem of time for Radu Drăgușin’s accommodation to the London band to be complete. He is convinced that his former student is imposed on Tottenham: “And in the juniors, when he was making a mistake, I remember making one at a match with Beșiktaș, he had in mind and no repeat. So the mistakes that have been to him in Tottenham games are not repeated. He’s a training player. A serious guy, but also very friendly. His quality was the biomechanics of hitting the ball with his head. He had detention and hit the ball better with his head than with his foot. I often sent him to the corners”.
Break between Gabriel and Stavric
After being promoted as head of the Center La Royal, Radu Gabriel conflicted with former suffering colleagues, Cătlin Cijmaș and Iulian Stavrică. The relationship between Stavrica and Gabriel is damaged at this time. “He was brought to Royal by Cătălin Cijmaș, and after the head of the center was placed, he told us to address the second plural person, with “you”, although we were colleagues at Sport and colleagues at the Faculty Group. He kicked me! And me, and the cijmaș”, Sounds the Stavric version. The Stavrică-Cijmaș-Gabriel triplet was once united, when he sued Vasile Șiman, the owner of Sport, in trying to obtain the outstanding salaries from the last 3 years of work. According to the court portal, the amount of the court, the amount of 100,000. work have never seen them before.
Stăvrică, with his hand on Radu’s shoulder (with fes on his head) PHOTO Personal Collection
