Gică Hagi cuts into live flesh at the national team. Batch restructuring begins: "I don't have time for experiences!"

Gică Hagi cuts into live flesh at the national team. Batch restructuring begins: “I don’t have time for experiences!”

Gică Hagi was announced as the new selector of the Romanian national football team on April 20, thus starting his second term in the tricolor locker room, after the experience of 2001.

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Determined, the technician immediately began analyzing the batch. Hagi was caught in the stands at some of the most important games in the Super League, to carefully monitor the players who could represent Romania in the next scheduled actions.

Moreover, Hagi also took an interest in the situations of several junior players, worthy of making the step to the big team. During several discussions with various coaches who deal with the other batches of players in the FRF record, Hagi made his intentions clear.

“I don’t have time for experiences!”Hagi would have sent, when more viable names would have been proposed to him, according to digisport.ro.

Gică Hagi is aware of Romania’s failure in this World Cup qualification campaign. The new selector of the tricolors has set up his strategy and promises performance to the supporters.

“The objective is to win every match, the objective is to win the League of Nations, to qualify for the EURO. That strategy is to try to become the best. I have conviction, I believe this thing. And we can win the League of Nations!“, said Gică Hagi, during the most recent press conference with the national team.

As for the next actions of the national team, Romania will play two friendly games in June, on the 2nd and 6th respectively, against Georgia and Wales.

Romania’s program with Gică Hagi selector. The first official match will be against Sweden

  • 2.06.2026: Georgia – Romania (time to be announced) – Friendly;
  • 6.06.2026: Romania – Wales (time to be announced) – Friendly;
  • 25.09.2026: Sweden – Romania (21:45) – League of Nations;
  • 28.09.2026: Romania – Bosnia-Herzegovina (21:45) – League of Nations;
  • 02.10.2026: Poland – Romania (21:45) – League of Nations;
  • 05.10.2026: Romania – Sweden (21:45) – League of Nations;
  • 14.11.2026: Romania – Poland (21:45) – League of Nations;
  • 17.11.2026: Bosnia-Herzegovina – Romania (21:45) – League of Nations.
Adrian Stoica

Adrian Stoica

Adrian is the founder and the visionary behind Cluj Napoca, a media platform committed to capturing and sharing the vibrant stories of Cluj-Napoca and Romania with an international audience. A graduate in international journalism from the University of Bucharest and holder of a Master’s in Cultural Studies from Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Adrian has a robust educational background that equips him to understand and analyze the complexities of his native region's culture and history.