Stoichiţă flared up, after he heard Becali's attacks: "Gigi keeps us in terror. I THINK I WILL GIVE UP!"

Mihai Stoichita, Stoichita, Steaua

The coach said that he reached the end of his resources regarding the relation with the sponsor and thinks to resign

Stoichiţă lived the match with the pulse at 200. He didn’t sit down not even once, and at the end of the match he made a gesture as if he is fed up with everything, he seemed to be discontent about the result. On the way to the locker rooms, he had the first nervous sally. "It is incredible! We should have had 3-0 at the break, but we reach to shiver in the 85th minute. This is unbelievable, that Toja wasn’t capable to give a goal with the empty goalpost and then they scored all of a sudden!", screamed Stoichiţă.

The coach of Steaua calmed then, he went at the press conference, where he had a moderate attitude, saying that Steaua has still chances to win the title. After he left the conference room, his close friends told him that Gigi Becali made mincemeat of Tudose and Petre Marin. It was the moment when "Lippi" got nervous.  

"That’s it, this is the last think I can except! He wants me to play with this mending team until the end of the championship and he keeps everybody in terror. I cannot do this anymore! I think I will give up. I am going home to raise my little girl and stay peaceful!", he flared up in a private discussion, then he gesticulated nervously and he got irritated in the bus.  

5 months and a half passed since Stoichiţă’s installation on Steaua’s bench

THE OFFICIAL DECLARATIONS

"I do not have the right to comment the words of the sponsor of the team. All I have to do is to rebalance the players for the match with Urziceni, because with them I will play, I do not have others"
Mihai Stoichiţă, at DigiSport, after he had the break out at Cluj

"I congratulate all my players. Even Petre Marin and Tudose, I am not afraid to do this, I am alongside them because I won’t leave them when they are in trouble"
Mihai Stoichiţă

"If we take into account how the match was played and how many occasions we had, we should have won. CFR really didn’t surprise us with anything, I say that we dominated from all points of view"
Mihăiţă Pleşan

"We had many occasions in the first half, and in the second one CFR ruled the game. I think the result is equitable, although if we made 2-0the match would have been finished. We still have real chances at the title"
Janos Szekely

"It was a match of good quality, with rhythm and real football, but for us it is a bad result. I don’t think the championship is over. We need to analyze what we made wrong, to work and believe in our chance"
Juan Toja, midfielder at Steaua

"We didn’t have a good start and we entered hardly in the rhythm. It is a balanced championship, I told the players that a battle cannot be won in the first fights, but through constancy"
Andrea Mandorlini, coach at CFR Cluj

"Steaua played good in the first half, but then we dominated. We received a lesson, we must forget this match. It is early to talk about the favourite at the title"
Leonardo Veloso, left defender at CFR Cluj

"Steaua surprised me, seemed to me more powerful l than Urziceni. It is good that the match was draw, because we are still on the first place. Now we have to defeat Oţelul and Dinamo"
Ricardo Cadu, defender at CFR Cluj

"The evolution of the team was beneath our expectations, maybe because there existed a state of exuberance. It was a good moment to take 3 points if we had treated the match seriously from the first minute"
Arpad Paszkany, sponsor at CFR Cluj

"It was a moving meeting with the players from Steaua, but we forgot about any friendship on the ground"
Nicolae Dică, CFR Cluj