Dracula's Guide to Romania

EURO 2024 is in full swing, so if you want to get to know the Romanian National Team, here is a helpful introduction.

Is the Romanian National Football Team any good?

Statistics never lie, so according to Fifa, Romania is ranked 46th in the world. This year we have chances to leave the group, and this is what we, Romanians hope to achieve. Usually, when expectations are high we underperform and when expectations are low, we overperform.

The Coach

Edward Iordanescu, son of previous Romanian football coach Anghel Iordanescu, his career meant starting from the bottom of the ranks and rose with time. He won one Romanian championship and 2 Romanian Super Cups. He is similar to the national team, some experience but requires a bit of work.

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What are the players that make the team shine?

Nicolae Stanciu

Denis Dragus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pztrtQmG1rM

Horatiu Moldovan

Update: Florin Nita was the chosen goalkeeper

Ianis Hagi

Romania has big shoes to fill and live in the past of Gheorghe Hagi’s (the father of Ianis Hagi) Golden generation, but we hope in time that we will get the football team that we always dreamt of!

This article gets into the gist of it:

https://www.theguardian.com/football/article/2024/jun/1underperformam-guides-part-18-romania

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