"No other solution"
Romania hires 79-(!)-year-old Lucescu as team manager
Mircea Lucescu is the new coach of the Romanian national soccer team! Romania's soccer association appointed the 79-year-old on Tuesday as the successor to Edward Iordanescu, who did not renew his contract after the Romanians were knocked out of the European Championship. Lucescu's contract will be valid for two years.
"The whole soccer world in Romania must stand by me. I am convinced that all those over the age of 70 will stick by me because they see me as an example of professional longevity," said Lucescu, according to the Romanian news agency Mediafax.
"... Could have coached my great-grandson instead ..."
The association had asked him to take on this task because no other personnel solution had been found in the short term, Lucescu continued. That's why he let himself be talked into it. "I could very well have coached my great-grandson instead. (...) But I couldn't say no to the national team," he said.
Lucescu was Romania's national team coach from 1981 to 1986 and led the team to the 1984 European Championship. He then went on to coach Inter Milan, Galatasaray Istanbul, Shakhtar Donetsk, Besiktas Istanbul, Zenit St. Petersburg and Dynamo Kiev.
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