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Rădoi started with a poor result, 1-1 at home to Northern Ireland, and with an excellent 3-2 in Austria. Romania has become the leader of the group that also includes Norway. Apart from the points in the standings, the new coach has also won something that is not easy to measure, but that he will use in future games: footballers with whom he had not had contact until now came to respect him and consider him a great coach and a confident guy to talk to.
How did Mirel manage to give them that impression?
He kept the communication style he had used in the U21 national team very direct. He was surprised at a press conference: “The players are not as open in discussions as they were in the youth.” In the past he had some children under his command, the older tricolor behaved differently, but they also felt that the coach was not hiding anything, because he was not gossiping.
“We die of heart until we know who is playing and who is not”
In fact, he hid something from them: the initial formula. He told them who the headlines were just three hours before the game with Northern Ireland, and then he did the same with the game with Austria! “We die of heart until we find out who plays and who doesn’t. Nor does he show clear signals in training, so we can see what the starting team will be like. It may barely make headlines about what happens in training. But it is very strong! It is direct and it is fair. He probably learned from Olăroiu over time that he is too good! Take all the pressure on him, we come to believe that we will not be guilty if we lose ”, says one of the footballers.
Radoi his goal was to keep everyone engaged in this way, so that no one would relax with the idea that he wouldn’t be playing anyway, so he would have no reason to train too seriously. There are also coaches who clearly show who the starters are, many days before the games. Especially the older generation did that.
Although he had a match on Sunday, Hizo picked the starters on Monday and coached them separately. The known reserves had no reason to seek to impress, as their status was decided.
“I am guilty, your colleagues are not to blame!”
Mirel Rădoi surprised the players before the Northern Ireland game. He announced who the headlines were and the people who would start the game came out on the field. Then Rădoi went to the locker room and sent them to the reserves: “You don’t have to be upset with your fellow players. If you think it’s unfair, tell me! They are not to blame for owning, only I can be at fault. “
But Rădoi knows how to be tough: “We have established some rules. Anyone who does not follow them is warned. The first time! The second time he comes onto the bench, along with us. The third time he will not be part of the national team.”
This is how he convinced them to follow the rules. Florinel Coman, and in Alibec, who raced in Austria as they do not in any championship match. Maxim, a footballer exclusively for attack, agreed without hesitation to become a right defender towards the end, when Romania protected the lead.
The coach closed the stage of the Nations League with a promise and another gesture that “thrilled” the players. At the farewell he thanked everyone for being in the group and for the effort: “Thanks for helping me! See you in the next matches!”
VIDEO. The “tricolor” celebrated the victory with Austria
He invented Cretu
Rădoi made a surprising bet on these matches, with Northern Ireland and Austria: Alexandru cretu. The footballer who was at Poli Iași has been playing in Slovenia for three and a half years. First it went to Omlimpija Ljubljana, then to champion Maribor. In the champion Maribor, he collected 57 games and one goal in two seasons.
Contra had Cretu on his scouting list, watched him in some games for a year and determined he didn’t need him, didn’t call him. Rădoi offered him this opportunity and even used it in both Nations League matches, sent him onto the field during the Northern Ireland game and had him as a starter for Austria. Cretu was excellent in the second game.
“Do you come up with excuses every day?”
Rădoi presented his apologies for the players called up and not used in these two games at the post-match press conference with Austria. Ionuț Chirilă commented on GSP Live the coach’s statement:
“How is that?” Does a coach apologize at every stage? It always happens that some people are left out! You must renounce this servility and make your own decisions! And don’t say “when we win it’s the players’ credit, when they lose it’s my fault”! Both the players and the coach are judged together, they have merit or fault! ”.
Rădoi ran three systems
The footballers were also surprised by Rădoi’s bravery. Romania played Northern Ireland in a strange system, a 4-1-3-2 with four attacking midfielders: Cicâldău, Stanciu, Hagi, Maxim. He went 4-3-3 at the start of the match with Iceland and ended the game in an ultra-defensive 5-4-1. He had gone from one extreme to the other, from total offense to defense with the entire team! The coach admitted after the victory in Austria that he too had been surprised by the performance: “I only practiced 5-4-1 in words, in the discussions I had. How good it worked!”
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