Mircea Lucescu (79 years old), the coach of the Romanian football national team, returned with explanations after the statement in which he was willing to leave the tricolor. The coach has only one victory in the current campaign, 5-1 with San Marino, and a failure, 0-1 with Bosnia and Herzegovina, in group H for the 2026 World Cup.
Mircea Lucescu is at the end of the powers
“Il Luce” acknowledged at Digi Sport’s post that he felt the pressure and explained that no one really believed in the potential of the first representative, still considered lower level, and that the performance of Euro 2024 meant a victory, with Ukraine.
“I wasn’t engaging, if I didn’t feel I could do that. No one wanted to take this team. Why didn’t nobody want to take this team? Why did the coach (no – Edi Iordănescu) continue with that training? He had to continue with a five -year cycle. What was the reason for that? Means that he was not believed in this team“, Lucescu told Digi Sport. Among those who refused to take over the national team after the final Continental tournament are Gică Hagi (60 years old).
“He was not believed in this team, in the potential to move on. I got hired, I might not succeed, it’s my obligation! My obligation is to make this boys some boys who want to play there, respecting everything that has been done before.
Let us not forget that at the Euro we got a single victory, against Ukraine. Let’s not forget these things. I went on the idea to build a team to play with the soul“, Added” Il Luce “, criticized that he did not summon the Golgheter of Superligi, Louis Munteanu, but especially because the team’s game leaves to be desired. Some specialists have reminded that Lucescu Senior Na succeeded as a coach at the representative of Turkey.
The technician states that he managed to change the team’s face, although he omits to say he had modest rivals. “I had the possession somewhere at 70%, we had no such possession, we had 40%. San Marino did not pass half. I forced them to do what we wanted, not what they wanted. I went to the euro, but I was in the first place at the balls saved by the goalkeeper. There were 17 interventions”.
