“I felt like I could have another 90 minutes!”

Raised in Dinamo’s juniors, where he was coached by Ionuț Chirilă, Popistașu didn’t get too many chances in the first team of “dogs”. Then he reached Division B, in Tractorul Brașov, a team with which he ended his career. The brief period in which Popistașu was active in Romanian football coincided with the “bohemian” of the 90s, in which suspicious matches and “fireworks” pushed to the limit of the regulations were the order of the day.

Extremely honest, Popistașu did not hesitate to answer the question “did you feel drugged on the Dynamo?”, Offering a meaningful answer. In 2018, Ionuț Chirilă, his former coach, offered a shocking perspective on the disappearance of Cătălin Hîldan.

Popistașu: “Normally, you are broken. I felt like another 90 minutes would pass “

“I don’t want to say the period and where I felt that way, but there were some moments, about the realism I was talking about. I knew my physical potential and there were some games after which I felt like I could play another.

This in the conditions in which he had played on a muddy and very difficult field. Normally, you are broken! The moment I entered the locker room I felt like another 90 minutes were going to pass“Popistașu confessed, on GSP Live.

Now, things are much better developed from the perspective of drugs, supporters of the effort. It was a period, from what I saw and felt, it was a bit of “relaxation.” It was still working and … there were no controls, there was no anti-doping – Eugen Popistașu

When asked if that moment happened during the Dinamo period, Popistașu initially hesitated, then replied, “No, it didn’t happen at Dinamo.”

He belonged to the same generation as Hîldan and Petre, but ended his career at Tractorul Brașov.

Eugen Popistașu was part of an exceptional generation of Dinamo, prepared by Ionuț Chirilă, along with important names such as Florentin Petre, Cătălin Hîldan, Cezar Dinu, Mihai Tararache, Marius Coporan or Ion Voicu, but he did not manage to prevail over the first team of “Ștefan cel Mare “. He made his debut in Division A in 1993, in a Dinamo – Sportul 4-2 match, but failed to play too much for the “dogs”. Later he came to Tractorul Brașov, where he prematurely ended his career.

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