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Lucescu prepares the matches in advance.

He asks the players to be calm on the field.

Because we are ready. We know everything about the rivals.

We know what we have to do. It's enough to go out on the field and play.

Shevciuk! Go to the back!

During the 90 minutes of the match, wants to see what I've prepared,

what we analyzed

if the players do the right thing,

regardless of the result.

Change things which must be changed.

During the match, he is very serious, because he is focused.

It has to be focused to lead his team to victory.

Experience is brought by mistakes.

I invited many coaches, I made many mistakes.

After many decisions, I found what the club needed.

THE LUCESCU PHENOMENON

Mircea Lucescu is a phenomenon.

Why? Because Mircea Lucescu he was a good football player.

He kept telling me: "I had no talent."

"I worked for everything I got."

I was a coach at Dinamo.

A supporter came to our office.

He informed us, addressing himself our head of department.

"Mr. Tutuli, do you want me to give you a player?"

I asked, "What kind of player? Who is it about?"

"It is not known, but it will be."

I left towards the outskirts of Bucharest.

Getting there, I was very surprised that it was an open field.

And many children, among them was Mircea Lucescu.

I didn't have soccer shoes.

We, our mothers and grandmothers we would take socks and fill them with newspapers.

We were playing with these "balls". from morning till night.

They had two pairs of tennis shoes to four brothers.

They took turns wearing them.

In the winter, to play football, he did his brothers homework,

and they gave him tennis shoes.

And it was hard that we were five children.

With parents, seven. It wasn't easy.

Or very hard that we had nothing to eat...

It was more bad food than good, but it was.

It was hard to have a family back then.

We were barely getting by.

In large families, the circumstances these strengthened the people.

They were much stronger.

Dad used to tell us: "Dear fathers, you will see"

"that Mircea will also dress you, it will also feed you."

I remember when he came to Dinamo.

The club found itself with two extremes.

One was Mircea Lucescu, and another was Ion Pîrcălab.

In this situation, Mircea asked to play on the left side.

That's why he trained more the left leg,

to be able to play there.

After a while, I saw him playing.

And he played well, with both feet.

It was a pleasant surprise for me

Because I saw him sense of realism,

an orientation against the respective conditions,

plus the desire to help between colleagues.

He was suffering a lot when didn't play well or when they didn't win,

when his team was losing a match.

Dad used to say: "It happened, what do you want to do?"

"Dad, I'm ashamed of people who come to the stadium."

"They put their hope in us, and we deceived them."

"I am ashamed of them. I don't have the courage to meet them."

He was suffering enormously

when thinking about the audience.

He was very angry. That was it, consciousness.

He was very conscientious.

One day, he left the club.

He went to study.

He transferred to Bucharest Science.

I didn't know it was borrowed I thought he was gone.

He had asked permission to finish his studies at the university.

I was particularly impressed this rare fact then.

It wasn't just a perspective player,

he was a man concerned with developing himself and intellectual capacity,

that of a graduate of the Faculty of Economic Sciences.

He chose the Faculty of Foreign Trade,

because it gave him the opportunity to leave the country

to know the world.

Easy to catch, learned Italian only on trips.

He learned Portuguese when he was in Brazil.

Going to Brazil many times, he knew brazilian football.

He liked it very much.

He liked the fantasy. Giving players…

During the match, they only thought about football.

He was the first band player who brought to the field

what Robben and Ribery are doing now.

Moving from one flank to another.

With his crosses, helped many attacks.

He made fantastic passes in the center.

He created many goals for the national team.

Through everything he did, everything he did,

by his behavior and through words

Mircea was the leader.

Maybe he wasn't the best player,

but he was the most talented player who understood the game.

He could talk to rivals, with the referees, with everyone.

He had all the necessary qualities a team captain.

He was the man who connected the best both our aspirations as players,

as well as team concepts, respect and dedication

requested by Angelo Niculescu from the players.

He was the captain of the national team when the team was formed

which then arrived in Mexico.

We qualified, no one believed.

do you realize I was in Mexico.

Who would have thought that the Romanian team, nişte amărâți,

it will reach the other end of the world?

For a Romanian footballer, the invitation to the national team

it was a special appreciation.

He was the ideal in Romanian football.

Last day of May 1970.

Attention Mexico and half the planet

se concentrează asupra gigantului of concrete called Azteca.

70 teams competed to get here.

Only 16 qualified.

It's an honor and a huge experience to play in the World Cup.

We, when we fell into this group,

I thought we were going to get it a bunch of goals.

But the national gathered all his strength,

how it was done back then.

We all gathered our strength and we decided not to make fun of ourselves.

The first match of the group, between England and Romania.

Cooper falls.

He plays in the tough, European style.

Lee.

There are two European countries, but Romanians feel at home.

England increase the pressure. The Romanians retire with nine players.

It's the 66th minute. Goal.

Lee passes. Hurst receives.

Champions defend the score and get their first success.

England - Romania, one to zero.

When I played with Brazil,

I had the coat of arms attached to my shirt with a bold.

If the ball hit you, enter your bold.

I had no other equipment.

Lucescu bought blue shirts from his money.

Brazil was also playing in yellow.

He was always the leader.

Our captain.

I started the match timidly, with restraint.

Brazil was world champion.

Pele, Tostao, Jairzinho.

It was a big team.

Brazil left its stars, Gerson and Rivelino, let them rest.

But Pele is on the field and takes the free kick. What a kick!

Then Paulo Cezar, Jairzinho, and it's two to zero.

After scoring a goal, we recovered.

I knew we had nothing to lose.

We had a chance to win.

But the Romanians are not defeated.

In the 34th minute, Dumitrache scores.

It's two to one, but the joy is not lasting.

Tostao makes an incredible pass with the heel to Pele and it's 3-1.

It's the turn of the Romanians.

Sătmărea doesn't care to Dembrovschi

and restores the difference by one goal.

It was one of the most beautiful tournament matches.

At 3-2, the public supported us, we were better

We could have equalized.

It would have been nice.

But I don't know if we qualify, if we win

I met Mircea at the dorm.

I noticed him among the others.

He was nice, likeable.

You could see it from afar when he smiled. He had a charming smile.

I liked his shyness.

Maybe that's what attracted me the most.

During the vacation, I received from him some illustrated.

He wrote in French, to impress mom

knew that mother she is a french teacher.

Actually, I have decided let's get married soon.

I was surrounded by colleagues.

They congratulated us.

After that, Mircea says: "Goodbye! I'm leaving now."

I asked: "How?" He said: "I'm going to camp."

"We are preparing for the match against Italy."

I was surprised, I thought that we will stay after the ceremony,

let's go out, let's celebrate, let's drink some champagne.

But I was left alone with my colleagues.

He left by tram, I was running after him and crying.

The fact that I was running after the tram...

... later I realized that all my life I ran after Mircea.

I waited for him the whole time after matches

when he was away when he was returning to the airport.

I was always behind him, I followed him.

I dedicated myself.

I was at the cinema with Răzvan.

There were only two of us, because Mircea he was in the training camp with Dinamo,

before a match.

And at that moment I had a shock.

It was a very big fear. I haven't heard anything.

There was total silence.

The world was running around us. They were looking for a way out.

I went out into the street.

All around us was an inferno.

Smoke, dust, you couldn't see a step away.

By an extraordinary stroke of luck, i remember

that dad came from the camp

and in all that madness managed to catch us.

we headed home we were worried.

"What happened to our house, what will we find there?"

I was very scared, I kept repeating:

"God, I hope he's not hurt our house."

But it was worse than we expected.

The wall between our apartment and the neighbor

fell on Răzvan's bed, broke the bed.

The earthquake changed our lives a lot.

Being very small, I was seven or eight years old...

I didn't understand how my parents felt.

Because of the damage, we had to move.

Dad transferred in a provincial town

and it started for us another experience.

The way he started and who took him to Donbas

it had to start somewhere.

This is the ID card of Mircea Lucescu.

It's his only card, the original.

He didn't have a duplicate.

Mircea Lucescu started playing football at the Bucharest Polytechnic.

Then he moved to Dinamo and in Hunedoara.

Here it ended his football career.

It started from here, from Hunedoara.

He admitted that Hunedoara made him a coach.

Otherwise, he might not get it what he got

No one stood in his way.

If he wanted footballers to eat I don't know what food, that's what they were eating.

If he wanted to learn something, they were learning.

Everyone listened to him. They were all helping him make a team.

Hunedoara was then The Donetsk of Romania.

The city had great economic potential.

The general manager loved football and wanted to make a team

for people to be happy so that the workers can have fun.

The team needed a star.

The management had an ambitious plan, to bring Mircea Lucescu.

It was a big risk to leave the capital Bucharest.

You leave the champion club, a strong team,

to start all over again to a team that had to be created.

If he stayed in Bucharest, it was not the first violin.

There were several coaches, more bosses.

It was harder to be successful. Here he became a star immediately.

Everything that Lucescu achieved at Corvinul Hunedoara

it was almost a miracle.

No one could imagine that an almost unknown team

they will reach the European cups.

That's how he chose his destiny.

Only we know what it means to leave Dinamo

and work as a coach in Hunedoara.

He created a team whose players they became the basis of the national team.

Moreover, they became good coaches in Europe.

He went to a place where football he was very popular in Hunedoara.

He took a risk,

created a team of young people who played very well.

He created valuable players.

That's why in 1982 he was invited at the national

after missing the qualification at the World Cup in Spain.

It was obviously impossible to work for a long time

both at the national team and at Corvinul.

But for six or seven months, he did that.

It was troublesome for Hunedoara and for us.

Furthermore, attempts have been made to convince him to refuse

the position of selector.

And he kept coming back in the match with Czechoslovakia

and the analysis of why it happened, how it happened, why they lost.

How did the boys play? What happened to the arbitration?

He told me that until he understood why did they lose

do not proceed to preparation the next match.

He was one of the first coaches who invented a way

in which the players to get used to the rivals.

In the dressing room he put photos with opponents,

so that his boys may not have the feeling of shock.

In the evening, before bed, he asked me:

"Do you mind if I study more? and leave the light on?"

I said no.

Learn foreign languages or study tactics.

He was constantly preparing.

I will talk to you about Mircea Lucescu as a coach.

I won't tell you anything new everyone knows him.

He is one of the greatest coaches from the world.

But one thing is clear, he always liked it to work with young players.

He gave them a chance. He created the necessary environment.

He included them in the group,

and the good, competitive players, they remained in the national team.

I was lucky that he was the coach of the national team then.

He was very happy after the match with Austria,

when i won with 4 to 0 in Bucharest.

He was very happy and the score encouraged him.

A friend came and said to me:

"Neli, they want to replace Mircea from the national team"

with Emerich Jenei", who was Stella's coach.

The star had then begun to increase in value.

He wanted to be in charge Romanian football.

I told Mircea in the evening, after the match.

Mircea said: "It's impossible."

"After four to nil with Austria, no one can replace me."

The next morning, he received a phone that they want to replace it

from the national team.

What could be blamed? Why should it be replaced?

Another time when he lost was not replaced.

But why after this beautiful victory?

He was very angry, he felt very wronged.

He got over that, too. he became a coach at Dinamo.

Dinamo extended a hand to him.

He continued to fight.

I don't know if there was anyone in Ukraine to support a political team.

In Romania, the teams had political support.

The star was supported by the Ceausescu family.

Dinamo, by the Ministry of the Interior.

Paradoxically, the rivalry between these two weapons...

Which is more important? The influence and field of football.

I congratulate you from the bottom of my heart for this great victory

and I wish the footballers, the whole club,

growing success

I wish that Romanian sport to get

new victories in all fields.

Much health and happiness!

At one point, the rivalry has reached its peak.

The scandal was near.

Steaua was a better team and more experienced.

He had won the championship two years in a row.

Win titles.

But our team has become better and younger.

We started to win.

Former leadership of Romania he did not favor Lucescu.

When Dinamo beat Steaua,

Lucescu was fined several times.

It did not suit the communist regime,

because he was a man who had the courage

to defeat the Ceausescu family team, The star.

He was the only coach

who had the courage to oppose Valentin Ceauşescu.

No one in Romania he did not dare to oppose him.

He didn't expect to be aroused the revolution.

He continued to train, to learn foreign languages, methods.

Perhaps he dreamed that, in a short time,

to go to train in the West.

That's how it was.

I'm going to tell you a funny story.

It happened before they arrived Lucescu in Pisa.

I came with the Pisa team with a private plane.

I was a physical trainer then.

I was around 1989-1990.

At that time, Lucescu coached Dinamo.

He was with the team in Belgrade, for the semi-final of the UEFA Cup.

I took a private plane and we went to negotiate with Lucescu.

A surprise was waiting for us.

At the hotel where Dinamo was staying Corrioni also sat,

the president of Bologna.

It was a funny evening.

Lucescu had to prepare the team for an important match,

but he also walked between the ground floor and the first floor,

accepting, rejecting, discussing the offers from Pisa and Bologna.

It was a crazy night.

When he coached Dinamo,

he had very good players.

That piqued my interest. I decided to look for him.

There were many young people at the national team.

For example, Răducioiu, 17 years old,

but also Hagi, who was 17-18 years old.

How could he do that?

Lucescu is a maniac.

He wants to know everything about your own players,

about how they celebrate.

When he arrived at Pisa, did not have this information.

With great joy I helped him.

Because I knew them the IT guys,

in two years I realized an innovative program.

It was revolutionary for the time.

It was called Farm and it was done

to analyze matches in real time.

We are in the recording room. There are many monitors and decoders.

We record matches from all over the world.

We analyze all players, all technical actions.

The data reaches the technical team, to the coaches.

They are our customers.

In 1994, when the program was tried at the World Cup

by the Italian national team coached by Arrigo Sacchi,

was taken over of all Italian clubs.

I was very proud.

I can tell that Lucescu and I were the first

which brought computer analysis in football.

After the first year in Pisa,

Lucescu moved to Brescia, where Corrioni was president.

He was one of his good friends.

Lucescu wanted to create a Romanian colony in Brescia.

He came to Bucharest with Corrioni.

We met Gică Hagi, was their first objective.

Hagi was under contract with Real Madrid.

Naturally, it mattered that Lucescu he was the coach of Brescia.

All the players went there for him.

It was strange to leave Madrid for a small Italian team.

But there was the coach who supported me.

Italy had the best championship from the world.

I wanted to meet him

although I still had two years left on my contract with Real.

The players he brought to Italy and whom he made famous there

they were close to him.

Or from Dinamo, or from the national team.

He knew he could count on them.

He knew those players could help him.

But it brought a lot of people from Romania.

Not just footballers.

Due to his ties to his homeland, try to help those close to you.

Romanian journalists, Romanian drivers they came to our country.

A Romanian world came here,

Lucescu's world in Brescia.

But Corrioni was lucky.

Lucescu was the hen who did it golden eggs,

for helping Corrioni to make a fortune for many years.

He is an example for me.

I like his way of thinking and the perspective on work.

I like that it gives young people a chance.

He used to come and talk to us.

"You have to bring quality in everything you do in life."

I consider myself too Lucescu's son.

From another perspective, because I'm not a footballer.

But we were very close.

We spent days and nights together.

In my career I met many coaches,

but in terms of understanding the game,

Lucescu gave me something what I didn't get from another coach.

Currently, its principles remain unchanged.

As before, his team it relies on the goalkeeper and defenders.

In an extraordinary way, creates numerical advantage

due to the pressure all over the field.

But Lucescu's team play much faster now,

it's more vertical.

Pay even more attention defense.

We can say that experience accumulated internationally

in recent years it allows him to build an effective game.

In recent years,

they were born in Shakhtior Donetsk true champions.

Play at the highest level.

How long I worked with Lucescu in Pisa and Brescia,

he trained and raised players of an incredible level.

It is enough to mention him on Andrea Pirlo.

Currently, Andrea says that he didn't learn from anyone

what he learned from Lucescu.

I was lucky to know him on Lucescu when I was very young.

I was 15 years old.

He took me to the first team when he was a coach.

It allowed me to debut in Serie A.

I will always be grateful,

because it was my first mentor on the field.

I liked them a lot Lucescu's training.

He worked a lot with the ball.

He wanted to build the game from defense,

as he did in all the teams.

For a young player, it's important to have such a coach,

because you have a lot to learn.

He dreamed of coaching a great Italian team.

But not everyone in Italy considered him a good teacher,

an exceptional coach.

Mircea Lucescu was for me a great player.

I used to see him on TV as a child.

Although there were no international matches shown too often on television.

But I was lucky enough to see him.

I knew him as a footballer, as a striker.

Then I heard his name again.

At Brescia they said he was a professional.

He was considered an expert in the training of young players.

That's what he was famous for.

He discovered many exceptional players.

Lucescu proved himself skills immediately.

It was a mistake to hire him for such a short period.

But he accepted the challenge. Proof that he was a good man.

Sure, there were difficulties when one new coach came to a big club.

But we joined our efforts

to get results as good as possible.

I pick up a newspaper and see an article on two thirds of the first page.

"Lucescu, at Inter."

On page three he wrote that, from July 1,

Lippi will replace him.

I called Massimo Moratti and I said:

"You took Lucescu for just six months?"

It was only six months. It's a shame it was so little.

I repeat, at the end of the season, the decision had been made

to sign a contract with Lippi.

As a result, the players could not work as it should be with Lucescu.

He resigned after that 4-0.

The reason for the defeat is that some players, in my opinion,

they were thinking about the future and they didn't listen to Lucescu.

He worked under difficult conditions.

He did what I didn't want.

It seemed a pity. But he was a great professional.

It was very unpleasant for me.

He left a team important to him.

He wanted to stay but the management had made another decision.

He was very satisfied.

Transfer to Internazionale had important consequences.

He started getting offers from Turkey.

It was very risky for Lucescu to move to Galatasaray.

The team had won the championship four times in a row.

He won the UEFA Cup.

It was risky for Lucescu to train such a team

and take it to new heights.

In the Super Cup, Real was the favorite.

The regulation time is over one to one.

Then there is the rule of the golden gap.

Lucescu told us that we can win, we thought so too.

Even with Real, we didn't need much,

only 15-30 minutes.

We wanted to win. And I succeeded.

In the first year, Lucescu did not interfere in team affairs.

He continued to build according to Fatih Terim's plan.

Watch the team from the sidelines.

In the next season, took over the reins.

He built the performance as he thought was good.

As a result, it was very successful.

Lucescu brought a lot in Turkish football.

I wasn't allowed never lose

We had to win at all costs, let's play nice.

He made great efforts as Galatasaray to make progress in Europe,

in the Champions League, but also in the Turkish championship.

After the first half, we were leading by two to zero.

We also argued in the dressing room. What was with this score?

This motivated the team even more.

at break Lucescu made two changes.

Fatih Akyel and Bulent Akyn.

After I lost first half with two to nil,

we won the match three to two.

In the 2001-2002 season, Galatasaray had financial problems.

The players had not been paid for a year.

On the day the wages were paid, I had big debts with Lucescu.

He came to me he put his hand on my shoulder

and said to share with the players what I owed him.

I gave the money to the footballers,

I told them what Lucescu said,

so they appreciated him even more.

It had a great effect on them.

I remember when Rinat Ahmetov wanted to hire him.

Prokopenko, the former coach of Shahtior, came here.

He stayed in an apartment for two days, one floor below.

He said: "I'm not going back to Donetsk without Lucescu,"

"because Rinat wants him."

Lucescu is called by all the clubs Turkish when he has problems.

Not only by Galatasaray.

All teams want to save them.

Money is not a problem. I pay him whatever he asks.

But I know he's very happy

there he talks only with the president and with the team owner.

In Turkey it is completely different.

He had a bitter experience there.

You can be successful, but immediately leadership changes

your achievements are ignored and you're fired.

That's how it was at Galatasaray and at other clubs.

I lost the election, I had 167 votes.

If we had won, the contract to Lucescu was extended by two years.

But a new leadership has come and promised the supporters

that he will bring Fatih Terim.

In 2002, Lucescu made us champions.

At a meeting I saw that he had tears in his eyes.

The new president had fired the coach, even though we were champions.

Lucescu was fired and went to Beşiktaş.

Of course, let's not forget that the Turks they are subjective about it.

When he came to the club, was viewed with suspicion.

In time, the supporters started to love the coach.

The first impression was that he is a very good man.

He was always willing to communicate, I could tell him anything.

That's why the team was under his strong influence.

I trusted him, I believed in him a lot.

It was a team spirit in Beşiktaş.

I was working hard and we became champions, as we wanted.

Galatasaray was the main rival.

This further motivated the coach, as is normal.

To the new team, Lucescu challenged Fatih Terim.

It was a fight with Galatasaray,

but also a personal rivalry with Fatih Terim.

in a way it was a competition of trainers.

And Lucescu won.

In that season, despite excellent training,

our main rivals they were from Galatasaray.

When there was a week left until the end of the championship,

our rivals they couldn't reach us anymore.

With 85 points, a record in the Turkish championship,

we became champions.

We were very close.

Lucescu could call me anytime and ask me anything.

Likewise, I could express myself desires and claims.

We had a very close relationship.

I will say it in English. It's my father.

That's the truth, it really is.

The players respect Lucescu and treats him gently,

like a father.

Lucescu was a father to all of us.

He acted like a father in training and everyday.

You felt at ease with him. I had no emotions on the field.

That's one of his qualities.

Everyone is cool with him.

Motivates you, prepares tactics, fantastic analysis of the rival.

After the last match with Beşiktaş, when he won the championship

the president of Shathtior, Rinat Akhmetov, came to Istanbul.

He wanted to talk to dad and make an offer to go to Donetsk.

I was in Akhmetov's palaces with Lucescu.

Rinat was fascinated

of football culture and Mircea's life.

Then I understood that they will become lasting friends.

I know very well that the discussion took place on the shores of the Bosphorus,

at a gorgeous hotel, with a dreamy atmosphere.

Dad didn't refuse at that particular moment,

but he said it would be quite difficult for him to leave Istanbul,

because just they had won the championship.

The decision was to postpone this coming to Donetsk.

For the first time in his career, I saw something like this on the field.

I got five red cards, most, for no reason.

It was an interesting match. I thought we would win easily.

It was natural, we were playing at home, in front of our fans,

we had the best team we expected to win easily.

As soon as the match started, the referee made interesting decisions,

which no one understood.

He was very active with the red cards.

He took them out one after another.

I don't know if he wanted to get us out out of rhythm or challenges us.

But it was intentional.

something happened it was a plot.

I think even Lucescu doesn't know the truth.

Neither does management. No one knows how it was possible.

But it was a tough situation for the club.

The supporters were furious on the referees.

It's a shame that Mircea left because of this. It was a sad year.

It was the first time that everyone she was upset that the coach was leaving.

From the club employees, to the players.

He didn't deserve such a breakup of Turkey.

Elections were held again at the club.

I announced that I am no longer a candidate to the post of president.

Lucescu resigned and went to Ukraine.

Turkey did not love him unconditionally, he made everyone love him.

He accomplished that.

That's why Fenerbahce fans, Beşiktaş, Galatasaray,

all sports fans in Turkey I love Lucescu

and will always love him.

The idea, passion and love with which President Ahmetov

presented the project team Shakhtior,

conditions at the base of the club,

they all convinced my father that it has all the conditions

to create a serious project.

That motivated him very much.

The one who received us very nicely the president was Rinat Ahmetov.

He was very persistent, although he could have any trainer.

He discovered something at Mircea which he liked.

Maybe he was right.

Mircea and the team were successful.

In 2004, two talented people they joined.

President of Shahtior, Rinat Akhmetov,

and Mircea Lucescu.

He is the coach of the team.

It was a union that helped The miner and Ukrainian football.

I knew we would be successful.

At least he knew that I like football...

I had ambitions, I wanted to make a strong team.

Hello, dear journalists!

I promised on May 18 that I will name the new coach.

I am pleased to announce

that he is the coach I wanted for a long time at Shakhtior Donetsk.

He is a Romanian specialist, Mircea Lucescu.

He got to know the team, he saw what problems we have.

Gradually, he made a list of players for the positions not covered.

I said that our task is to win the Ukrainian championship.

I wanted the gold, not the silver.

We like gold better.

Then a great rivalry was born.

I lost the first match.

The defense was weak.

I got what I deserved.

Şahtior played spectacularly.

Dynamo Kyiv understood that it will be difficult to defeat Şahtior.

When I came, Rinat Akhmetov he was very worried

that Surkis, who had a conflict of interest,

will appear in front of the fans,

to give them the medals those from Şahtior.

Coach Mircea Lucescu!

Şahtior is a real champion.

I want to conclude

saying that you shouldn't stop there.

With that short phrase,

I wanted to point out that there can be no monopoly anywhere.

No hegemony it doesn't last forever.

Victory! Thank you.

Şahtior is the champion!

Lucescu succeeded to change the course of history.

Next, Dynamo Kyiv always win.

Historically, it was the biggest rivalry.

Mircea managed to put an end to it the hegemony of Dynamo Kyiv.

He managed to do something incredible.

I had a feeling that Lucescu, an experienced coach,

an excellent football player, strategist and tactician,

he would do everything to take the Ukrainian championship

higher than ever.

He did this excellently.

We went to Kryvyi Rih and I played convincingly.

It was a real battle.

The goal was scored in extra time.

I remember clearly what I felt then.

Shahtior is the champion of Ukraine.

He was always a miner a winning team.

Many years, Şahtior was leader of the Ukrainian championship.

We were happy for his success.

We are very happy that it feels good.

He saw that people appreciated him, he respects him.

It is very well understood with the president of the club,

who values what he does, how much he works

I don't know any other coach in the world

that gathers a pleiad of wonderful Brazilians...

No coach in the world he doesn't know better than Lucescu

to control a team where there are more than ten stars.

It proved that you can work and you can get results

with a team of Brazilians.

Trust me, it's very hard.

It's his psychology.

It is his firm belief that fix these players

will help Şahtior.

But nobody believed that at the beginning.

When a new footballer comes, he says: "You play differently here."

"You play Shahtior's football here."

He said that Messi too, if he comes, he will play in the style of Shahtior.

Football players are preparing for the match according to Shahtior's plan.

Lucescu succeeds in this by using a method known only to him.

Maybe he will reveal it in his memoirs.

Maybe other coaches use it too.

South American players they are very strong.

They are very technical.

But Lucescu noted

that they are not ordinary with the reality of European football.

He needs to learn this.

His way of controlling his players it's the one I would use too.

He has deep, grounded relationships on trust, with his footballers.

I see when the players work together on the field, when they gather on the bench.

Appreciate and admire Lucescu's work.

He managed to create a fantastic team,

this is the secret of his success.

Yes, he is like a father for all players.

Especially for those who come from afar.

For Brazilians, for example.

I learned a lot from him.

Lucescu grew up wonderful footballers.

I think it singled me out of the others.

I had a lot of experience in Europe.

Matuzalem is a football player which has no equal in Ukraine

when it comes to dribbling.

Until then, stars of his stature they did not exist in Ukraine.

Moreover, he was an international star.

He came to the team thanks to Lucescu.

The club was not big then, he had no aspirations.

It was not known in Europe.

It is the merit of Lucescu that the transfer was made.

We also had fun, but we were also sad.

We thought that someone has to lose.

I also felt sorry for Răzvan, and by Mircea,

but I didn't expect it for him to lose.

How do you feel before the match?

What do I feel now?

It will be a tough match.

We are here to fight and get three points.

As the match drew closer,

I told myself that I must forget completely of this relationship,

to analyze for blood Donetsk team

and I thought we would have a chance.

The day of the match came.

before the match

arbitrators and federal observers they invited us to the dressing room.

They warned us that they made a bet large sums on a peer.

Dad was scandalized.

How can an observer to say something like that?

He said he had a career behind him,

that he would not do such a thing to his son.

Finally, the match began.

We won in the 87th minute.

I remember that it was an extraordinary joy.

I constantly avoided to watch my father on the bench.

When I was hugging my players, I turned my head and saw him.

With your hands in your pockets, with his head bowed.

Then I realized I was happy the first time of a defeat of his.

I had a feeling of shame.

I think at that moment all the emotions I managed

to hide them they surfaced.

I went to the dressing room. It was a great joy.

I hid in a corner,

I asked the masseur let no one enter there

and I burst into tears.

I don't know how long it lasted, 10-15 minutes.

I had to go at the press conference.

Mircea kissed Răzvan, to calm him down.

He realized that Răzvan feels stupid

that he gave them the opportunity a disappointment to Mircea.

I was happy for Răzvan and I was sad for Mircea.

They were some contradictory feelings

how rarely was it given to me to live

We congratulate the winners, we wish success to both teams.

They both behaved decently.

But Mircea's kiss, which was upset because of defeat,

it is the proof of his unlimited love.

Fortunately, although it works in the same field

I haven't heard of any conflicts between them.

Even when they were rivals on the field.

They take care of each other as much as I can.

I'm a lucky man that I have such a father.

When I had to make a decision,

I asked him and he answered:

"Whatever you decide, regardless of the outcome,"

"You must know that I support you and I will always help you."

Every kid wants to hear that from his father.

Family is very important, not only for Mircea Lucescu.

For any coach's career

and for the career any professional.

He is very lucky.

He did not miss the chance to have a wife

who is calm and reasonable with him.

It's very important.

In the tense atmosphere of coaching life,

if you don't have an oasis of peace at home, you risk losing your mind.

Neli was always an element important balance for him.

For me, Mircea is a hero.

I've been standing by him for so long and I notice it.

I see him working how does he think

his reactions.

They are almost always positive.

How do you approach people? his generosity.

His rigor at work...

The courage to fight with the weights

and his very great love of life.

He is a man who, if he puts his mind to it something in the head, it really does.

He doesn't give up.

Sometimes it can be sentimental.

It happens to all coaches,

especially after a long time to a team.

Especially a successful period.

Mircea Lucescu can be eliminated, like his player.

It's a unique incident. Mircea Lucescu he has to leave the bench.

When Grigori Surkis was the head of the federation,

all Ukrainian football it was controlled by one man.

I don't mean arbitration.

It's a whole controlled world by one man.

That's why there were problems on the field and beyond it.

It started when Lucescu threw his hat.

It was like starting a war.

I understood that if we don't fight, nothing will change.

What have we always wanted?

Equal rules for all.

The rules for Dinamo, Şahtior and Dnieper to be the same.

When the president of the club and the head of the federation are the same man,

the competition is not fair.

The rivalry between Shahtior and Dinamo

it always existed and we hope it will continue.

Why? Because we can argue

but without these conflicts there is no point in putting money into football.

It was one of the hardest moments from the history of Shahtior.

I took a strange goal.

It happened because not all the world respected the principles

and Lucescu's instructions.

i remember when the corner was executed.

There were seconds left until the end of the match.

Lucescu was yelling at Ilsinho and at Jadson's to run away in the cage,

to hold Palop.

They thought the game was over, they walked casually.

In return we needed victory to qualify.

It's interesting that the goalkeeper scored.

Palop's goal allowed us to qualify.

But the teams were equal.

I was in the stands, I didn't understand how they scored.

You don't often see something like that.

In the 93rd minute, Palop scores with his head,

and Sevilla moves on in the UEFA Cup.

It was a shock and an important lesson.

In football you play until you hear the referee's whistle.

After three successful years to the Ukrainian team,

Methuselah left suddenly.

Lucescu was very angry. He didn't want that.

I called Methuselah and his impresario to me.

I beat the impresario.

I didn't want Methuselah to go.

He had a high salary, but he didn't want to stay in Ukraine anymore.

It was hard for me.

It's hard to leave from a place where you are loved.

where you feel good where you count for the team and the fans.

Against the wishes of Mircea Lucescu and the president.

It was a difficult decision.

I wanted to play in big football.

I wanted to catch the national team of Brazil.

I had important reasons to leave.

It was a strong desire.

It's a shame it happened.

I remember that in 2008 when I didn't leave the group,

when I was playing with Barcelona, Sporting, Basel...

We lost away with Sporting,

it was talked about about Lucescu's resignation.

Everyone believed that I have to make a decision.

Mircea said he was resigning.

Maybe the fans too they were disappointed.

I don't know where I was anymore,

for the first time we were far from Dynamo Kyiv,

I think we were 15 points behind.

It hadn't happened again.

Honestly, not even for a second I didn't think

to break up with Lucescu.

I believed in him.

Everyone was waiting a sensational announcement,

to dismiss Lucescu or to resign.

I asked them: "What are you waiting for?"

"Something sensational? You will be disappointed."

"I don't make decisions when I'm happy or to sadness."

"And now we are sad."

in my soul I was on the side of the fans.

If I were making transfers, i could get more.

I couldn't make recommendations related to his dismissal.

But we consider that we should break up.

The coach needs trust. No need to boo.

And sometimes you applaud him.

Lucescu is an innovator. It's not out of date.

I think he has an animal intuition, if you want

Sometimes intuition allows it to quickly overtake their rivals.

But it's a titanic job.

The heart sometimes does not cope with the pressure.

After all these events,

he had heart surgery in Germany.

On the day of surgery, I called him.

I asked: "What are you doing, Mircea?" He said, "I'm watching a video."

I asked, "What?"

He said: "It's Tuesday and Sunday I have a match in the championship."

"I watch the opponents' matches."

Then I realized

that his heart surgery it matters less

than concern for the match.

Cherishing it, admiring it, loving it,

I realized that he is not sane.

He is touched by this madness.

He does not accept being sick,

to be impossible to move, to work permanently.

He cannot feel good at rest.

He wants to resume his work.

This is Mircea.

And after the tram accident, from Bucharest,

he never gave up.

Even if it hurt him, even if he could not breathe and walk.

Mircea did not lose fighting spirit,

they fight with rivals, with disease, as time passes,

struggles with all these difficulties.

That's how he succeeds.

He has a special competitive spirit.

I remember that he said he was small, weak,

he knew he had to move.

He was trying to outdo himself by tram.

It started from the station with the tram

and ran to get there before the tram.

That gave him satisfaction and he was also moving.

He was curious to know to know.

An analytical power and the pleasure of analyzing.

Since he was a footballer he had some notebooks

in which he notes match commentary.

How could he have played in lost matches,

how could they get better results?

He manages to create from scratch, because everything he does has depth.

In times of difficulty don't give up

keep fighting with even greater tenacity.

We rejoice with him in victory.

Together with him we build the team and we share the responsibility of the result.

That's why we trust one in the other.

He's sporty. He always wants to win.

In everything, in everything involved.

He wants to win the friendly matches. He's a winner.

Jadson has the ball. The ball is in the goal!

Jadson scores the second time.

Shakhtar leads Tottenham with 2-0.

Dos Santos has the ball. Shoot with the left.

Fernandinho scores!

What an important goal!

We lead 2-0.

If the match ends now,

we qualify further in the Europa League.

It was the quarter finals, it was a first for Şahtior.

Final whistle!

Şahtior is in the quarters Europa League!

Congratulations, dear viewers!

I remember the French ambassador after the first match.

Shahtior had destroyed Olympique Marseille.

When Fernandinho scored, there were no more doubts.

Marseille could not come back.

I passed the Olympique, who played well

like Tottenham.

TSKA...

Dynamo Kyiv had played very well.

He was always enthusiastic, he wants to win even at his age.

Without victory, there is no meaning.

You have to go out on the field and win.

I had no doubts in the semifinals.

They scored at the end of the match with Dynamo Kyiv.

I was sure that we will win.

But Dinamo played very well.

After we tied, I left the stadium.

Dinamo supporters came to thank me

for a nice match.

If the supporters of Dinamo mi thank you for the quality of the team,

it is clear that we have value.

Şahtior scored and took control of the match.

The result has been improved.

But we were not weak. We had a strong team.

We were very close.

I scored in Donetsk, it was one on one.

It's a shame we lost in the semifinals.

The teams were of equal value.

Anyone could win.

Dynamo Kyiv she is our main rival.

In this kind of tournaments,

Dynamo Kyiv did not recover long after the defeat.

That's his nature. he always wanted to be a champion.

He just wants to win.

Whether playing chess, checkers or table tennis,

if you win, he gets upset.

He always wants to win.

When we arrived in Istanbul, it was raining.

He looked at me.

I was wet and agitated, I was waiting for the match.

He said: "Dario, calm down! It's going to be fine."

I have never been in ten years calmer than in Istanbul,

before the match against Werder.

THE FINAL

Mircea was very confident.

The day before the match and on the day of the match, he was confident.

And I started the match very good

I started well, I scored.

Then after that free kick, I was wrong.

Of course I was with Şahtior. I couldn't keep up with another team.

Among other things, I cared about them because they had eliminated us.

If they won, we were also close.

A step away.

Of course I was with Şahtior.

Before extra time he said: "Guys, play your game, please!"

"We will win. I don't panic, I don't want anything."

"Play as Şahtior knows how to play. And we will win."

And so it was.

Let's win in Istanbul, at Fenerbahce's stadium,

our eternal rival when i was in turkey

it was important for me and Lucescu.

There were several triumphs.

We will never forget this feeling.

He has the soul of a winner, the president felt it.

That's why he brought him to Ukraine.

First of all, he stayed with the team for a long time,

because he likes working here

and because the president is satisfied of his work.

Obviously, it had excellent results.

Mircea Lucescu is a phenomenon.

I didn't expect it, to be honest.

Shahtior was not a big team.

After he started working with them, they reached the top.

My opinion is that he will stay at Şahtior for a long time.

He has an exceptional relationship with Rinat Akhmetov,

the president of the club and his friend.

Between them it was tied a lasting friendship.

We were together through thick and thin many years

We understand half a word, at a glance.

Over time, we became good friends.

I don't want to count the trophies, but they all hide a lot of work.

He invested his soul in every trophy, every victory.

It was before another pleasant event,

inauguration of Donbas Arena, so it was a double joy.

"We won the UEFA Cup, we entered history."

It was the last UEFA Cup.

Dear friends, Donbas Arena it was built for you.

I declare it open. Thank you.

The audience at the Donbas Arena he met Mircea standing.

After five championships won in a row

Shahtior has arrived in the quarterfinals of the Champions League.

He played everywhere, he played spectacularly.

He won and delighted the fans.

It is the merit of Mircea.

The specialists, his colleagues and the coaches ask themselves:

"How did he achieve such success?"

I will try to answer.

Not only does he love football,

he is the slave of football.

Some are born for football.

In this respect there is an example for Romanians.

what did he do as a football player and as a coach

it is an example that must be appreciated from all points of view.

Lucescu is a phenomenon. Like Pele.

They examined him the best doctors in the world.

They tried to find an answer, but they didn't succeed.

That's why Pele is Pele, and Mircea is Mircea.

I told him: "You are not bound by the contract."

"We have a contract, but it doesn't force you to do anything."

"You can leave anytime."

"But warn me ahead of time."

We weren't discussing finances.

He told me: "It's not about the money."

"I am ready to work for free at Shahtior."

"I'm not leaving Şahtior now."

What is the Lucescu phenomenon?

Lucescu himself.

wisdom, his experience, his intuition.

His family helps him a lot.

Neli is a beautiful woman,

sentimental, kind, intelligent.

It is completed.

It has become a tradition.

wherever we are we spend sundays together

the first day of Christmas.

They have been together for 47 years.

It is important that the mother understood him in all his difficult moments.

It was like a lightning rod for him.

Probably these relationships...

... family life helped him very much in the career.

I was talking to him about how it was supposed to be

how he should behave

to the level he reached.

He told me:

"I'm not interested than to become better than I am."

I told him: "Enough, you had it enough successes, calm down!"

He said: "You tell me to stay home."

"I can't stay at home, not to deal with football."

"My life is football, I couldn't do anything else."

I'm sitting on the bench where Micea Lucescu was staying

when he coached Hunedoara.

I have the boots he played with and which remained with me.

I can tell you about an incident related to Lucescu.

I was a winger at Inter for the first time.

I was playing very poorly.

But he believed in me and gave me another chance as a striker.

Mircea seemed nice to me from the beginning.

Later, when my mother got older and started to forget things,

confuse him.

He saw Mircea around the house and asked:

"Is he your husband?" I was saying yes.

"Nice man!"

He taught me to drink wine.

When he came to Donetsk,

during the matches, I drank water, he drinks wine.

He saw how passionate I am of football and said:

"With this attitude, you're going to die in a match."

"You need to relax, to drink wine."

If I write a book about Lucescu, it will be as thick as the Bible.

You're going to make another movie. But he'll have four hours, not two.

Did anyone want to buy the boots?

I know Massimo Moratti wanted them.

Yes, there were offers.

They said they would give me a Mercedes on them.

I talked to them, I said I don't give them the boots.

Wait! How do you know that?

I have another memory to present.

He gave me a tie as a gift.

He wore it when he won UEFA Cup.

I keep it in the museum.

I'll show it to him when he comes. "See?"

"It's the tie with which you won the final."

Well done, Lucescu! Lucescu Champion.

You watched the documentary THE LUCESCU PHENOMENON

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