You couldn’t have eaten too much at lunchtime to avoid having a nosedive during the Romanians’ press conference late Friday afternoon in Cologne. Radu Dragusin, the Tottenham defender, and coach Edward Iordanescu did everything they could to say nothing. With long answers in a monotone to have as few questions as possible during the limited duration of the exchange.
A festival of commonplaces that even Alin Stoica couldn’t break. The comments of the former Romanian midfielder from Anderlecht were reported to the coach, who is also a childhood friend of Stoica. “He said we have bad players and a bad team despite our 3-0 victory against Ukraine ? What do you want me to say ? I’m not going to comment on what other people say.”
Iordanescu still wanted to clarify certain things immediately. “Our team knows what it has to do. I think we have a very good group and I said that from the first day of arrival in Germany. We want to stay here as long as possible and make the Romanian people proud. This Saturday, in the best case scenario, we could already qualify for the round of 16.”
Not sure that Stoica and his childhood friend will have fun seeing each other again one day.
