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| MEDIA HEADLINES 08/09 |
| (2008-09-08) |
| Last updated: 2008-09-09 14:38 EET |
“They Were Pathetic”, the daily Romania Libera headlined in an article on what they called “a nightmare debut in the World Cup qualifiers” devoted to the match where Romania on their home turf , was thrashed by Lithuania three-nil. The same paper wrote that during the match hosted by Cluj, in central Romania, ‘nothing functioned properly’. Because we had a pathetic defence line, our midfielders took on their opponents as if they were playing a friendly on the beach, while our strikers couldn’t even pose a threat to a high-school team. All in all, the Romanians were nothing but a team of cardboard stars unable to make up for the absence of their leaders, fullback Cristian Chivu and striker Adrian Mutu who have both sustained injuries.
‘Nightmare a la Cluj’ headlines the daily Ziua, writing that “Romania’s national team made up of fed-up footballers, lacking any enthusiasm and motivation was unable to put on a decent show in a home game, while selector Victor Piturca showed his limits. The paper’s conclusion is that ‘when you get thrashed by the Lithuanians three-nil at home, normally you “pull the blinds and close up shop.“ Arithmetically, this is for the first time after nine direct games, when Romania, a participant in the latest edition of the European championship, has lost to Lithuania, a country which has never made it to a final tournament. Also arithmetically speaking, after the first qualifying round, Romania is lagging behind the other teams in the group, a position it hasn’t occupied for 15 years.
The fact that France, the group’s other favourite, was defeated by lower ranking Austria in Vienna provided no solace to the Romanian papers, which have lavishly showered the footballers with various hard epithets. The game was prefaced by an unprecedented conflict between the ‘cardboard football stars’ and journalists who tried to take snapshots while they were strolling through the Botanical Garden in Cluj.
“The Zoo-National Side”, headlines the daily Adevarul, writing the footballers threw stones at the reporters calling them ‘rats, jackasses, sons of bitches and slaves’ only because the latter were doing their job. Asking a rhetorical question, namely “why do our footballers prefer playing with stones and not with a ball”, the Gardianul daily points to a more deep-rooted evil: the footballers are simply imitating the behaviour of football club owners, of what they’ve seen and learned from the Professional League and the Federation, from “ a bunch of bootleggers, bribe-takers, tax-dodgers, hoodlums, who have somehow avoided jail.”
The daily Gandul, devoted its editorial articleto the Saturday match, calling coach Piturca and his players “a bunch of shameless posers, while the Evenimentul Zilei has qualified Romania’s defeat on Saturday as ‘the most shameful failure in history’ addressing coach Piturca directly, on the front page : ‘It would be outrageous for you not to resign.”
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