FRF wants it, but Mirel Rădoi says “bye”! EXCLUSIVE The reasons the selector is determined to give up

Three consecutive defeats for the national team brought Mirel Rădoi into the whirlwind of disputes, with more and more voices demanding the coach’s departure after just five games on the first representative’s bench. It wouldn’t be the first time in the post-revolutionary era that FRF would change coaches very quickly.

Jena’s successor after the 1990 World Cup, Gheorghe Constantin, led the “tricolor” only four games, two friendlies (2-1 USSR, 2-1 Poland) and two officials (1-2 Scotland, 0-3 Bulgaria), their severe loss at home to Stoicikov, Sirakov and company was fatal. And Gică Hagi held out for exactly five games in the fall of 2001, when he left after missing out on Slovenia for the 2002 World Cup. The “King” had scored a defeat, in the play-off round, three draws and a special victory, 2-0 in Budapest with Hungary.

But now, after an encouraging start, led by the spectacular 3-2 in Austria, Rădoi’s national team collapsed. But, federal sources say, October’s terrible run on the Iceland (1-2) – Norway (0-4) – Austria (0-1) axis will not ultimately lead to an immediate divorce. Mirel remains in his position at least for the last matches of the League of Nations, in November, with Norway (a) and Northern Ireland (d), plus a friendly that we will play before, on the date reserved for the finals of the Dam towards Euro 2020.

He warned before the campaign started!

After that, the waters turn cloudy. FRF wants to go further with Rădoi in the preliminaries of the CM 2022, either because eliminating him unilaterally would imply the payment of compensations. But the technician is already inclined to say “pass” on his own initiative. In fact, after the defeat against Austria, he came out with statements that reveal his disappointment and open the doors to a break: “Maybe in a month you will all be happier. If I consider that there is no progress and we cannot improve anything,” then it would be We better take care of our business and have someone else come along who can satisfy your pleasures. “

Rădoi’s abrupt speech is nothing new. In an interview for GSP in June, when he had not yet managed to lead any game in Romania, he had surprisingly warned then that “when I feel that I can no longer contribute, neither myself nor my staff, to the improvement of the game, to the progress of the players, in the image of the team , then I won’t hesitate to leaveEither after one game or after ten on the national team. Stepping aside when you think you can’t do it right isn’t cowardice. “

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Disappointments: Mitriță, Deac, Alibec, Keșeru

In fact, Rădoi also gave up after the failure with Iceland, not just the players, who hit the ground with morale. The 39-year-old coach no longer had individual discussions with the footballers, and communication was limited to meetings with the team, in which he announced the starting formula, tactics, strategy. He realized that there was a significant difference between what he thought he would find in the batch, what he had managed to move in the first two games and what he really has at his disposal to implement his technical ideas and group management.

However, he managed to express only part of his disappointment in public. He was not satisfied with the lax attitude of some of the players, led by Mitriță and Deac. Alibec also failed the confidence test.

Concerned about the 19-hour journey on the New York – Bucharest – Reykjavik route, the former Craiova resident was thinking more about moving from the United States to Saudi Arabia. And for the CFR midfielder, the end of the adventure in the national team is near, he will probably start coming to the games in November, after which the Man will move up from the U21, and the place in the right lane will become In a closed option for Deac, especially since there are alternatives with younger and more efficient players, like Maxim.

And for Keșeru, the swan song is announced in the national team. The 33-year-old forward was also among Rădoi’s disappointments, unable to contribute any advantage when he came off the bench in all three games, 10 minutes in Iceland and half an hour with Norway and Austria. There are already better solutions in the outposts, led by Pușcaș, Florin Andone will also return.

Against Hagi Jr., Amazed by Stanciu’s Frailty

To all this was added the frustration of Hagi jr., With whom the coach ended up in a conflict at the level of statements. Ianis complained that he was running too far to recover the ball and that he had no energy left when the team was in possession, which seemed to be his father’s voice. Gica also explicitly asked Rădoi “to maintain the system from his youth”, that is, 4-4-1-1, with Ianis free behind a cover, without having to participate much in the defensive phase.

The fragility of some of the “tricolor” also intervened, the case of Stanciu. His evolution has been below expectations, he is affected by criticism, the aggressive attitude of the media and supporters. Rădoi felt that Stanciu, whom he considered among the most important, was no longer playing to his usual capacity due to fear.

Players felt the change

Still, the team felt that the coach was about to give up, the players realized that he behaved differently from the first action of the team with Mirel, in the games with Northern Ireland and Austria, when the atmosphere was good, and he was communicative and open.

If the team does not progress enough to win both games and change its status, Rădoi is ready to resign before the World Championship qualifiers, in which Romania could be in the third urn of the draw, thus with at least two best teams in the group.

Fans would still like him

In a poll conducted on gsp.ro, with the question “Is Mirel Rădoi guilty of not qualifying for EURO 2020?”, Only 26% of voters (11,746) chose the option “You have to go”. By contrast, 33% of fans (14,755) believe that “it was wrong, but should not be changed”, and 41% (19,179) believe that FRF players and officials are to blame for the disastrous results.

Are we attacking the all-time record of 4 consecutive failures?

From the first game of the national team until now, Romania has gone through 12 series of three consecutive defeats. The first was recorded in 1935 (0-4 and 0-2 with Yugoslavia, 0-4 with Bulgaria, all in the Balkan Cup, coaches Alexandru Săvulescu and Costel Rădulescu), and the last one came in 2010, with Răzvan Lucescu on the bench. (0-2 with Israel, 2-3 with Ukraine, 0-1 with Macedonia, all friendly). Ilie Oana suffered in 1965 the shame of three defeats in a row only in official matches: 1-2 with Portugal, 1-3 with Czechoslovakia, 1-2 with Turkey, in the preliminaries of the 1966 World Cup. However, the series of four games lost one after another in 1979 is unique, coaches Ștefan Kovacs (2) and Constantin Cernăianu (2): 0-1 with RDA, 0-3 with Poland, 1-3 with USSR, 1 -2 with Yugoslavia, the first 3 friendlies.

The succession is played between Hagi and Petrescu

The most direct variants for Mirel’s succession would be Dan Petrescu and Gheorghe Hagi. The former has a salary of one million euros at CFR Cluj and It would be difficult for him to pass the champion without a somewhat decent contract, such as 500,000 euros, exactly the level that he gave Daum after Euro 2016. And the arrival of the “King” would put the national team in a sensitive position regarding the commercial interest that Hagi would have in the group to promote players from his Academy of the Future.

26.6%is Rădoi’s success rate in the national team in the first 5 games, the second weakest in the history of the national team, with one win, one draw and 3 losses: it is surpassed only by Costel Rădulescu, 20% in 1935 , one success and four failures

240,000 eurosis Mirel Rădoi’s salary as coach, and his contract expires in November 2021, at the end of the preliminaries of the CM 2022

* It was two points for the victory

“The victory in Austria was a coincidence. We seem like a team that doesn’t know what to do with the ball. Everything is backwards with us, tangled up. They dribble when they want to be noticed, stand out. Rădoi is a boy who he reads, knows football, Definitely. But we are not at the playstation, to pass on computer ideas. Ours can’t, no matter how much we praise them! That’s the level! “
Gabi Balint, at Digi Sport

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