The Romanian national football team has defeated the Faeroe Islands, score 1-0 (0-0) on Wednesday evening in Torshavn, the Group 7 game counting for the preliminaries of World Cup 2010. Razvan Cocis scored the only goal in the 59th minute of a dull game.
At the end of the game Victor Piturca, the coach of the national team, expressed his pleasure with the result, pointing out that he would have liked to see the team score more. ‘During the game against Lithuania we had a lot of injured players too. Several other players have been injured since then, but the guys that were on the pitch today played a good, beautiful, spectacular game, with good passes. Too bad we did not manage to score more,’ Piturca stated.
The coach pointed out that it was very hard for him to improve the morale of the players after the 3-0 loss in the game against Lithuania. ‘It was a terrible situation, but I think the guys surpassed that moment, we have set on a new path after this victory, despite the fact that it was a victory against a smaller team. The three points are what matters. We also wait for the results of the other group games and we look forward to next month’s crucial game against France.’ Piturca expressed his concern that Mirel Radoi could have a torn muscle. ‘It would be serious because his club would no longer be able to use him in the important games that it is set to play, nor could the national team do so in the game against France,’ Piturca stated. Radoi has left the pitch injured in the 18th minute, being substituted by Sorin Ghionea.
Piturca pointed out that he knows nothing about Adrian Mutu’s refusal to play for the national team as long as he is the coach. ‘I don’t think that could happen. I don’t see the reason. If a player doesn’t like me he could say it and that’s that, but these are artificial problems. I have a very good relationship with the players, they’re professionals, I lead the destinies of the national team and after all I am the one that came and qualified the team for a final tournament after 6 years, that is the truth and nobody can take that away from me,’ Piturca added.
