RRI Sport Club – Football

A look at the upcoming football matches of the Romanian national eleven

Florin Orban, 11.10.2023, 13:45

On Thursday and Sunday, Romanias national football side will be playing two games in the preliminaries of the European Football Championship next year. Our footballers first match will be against Belarus in Budapest on Thursday and the second one in Bucharest on Sunday against Andorra. Both matches will be played without supporters after the Romanian Football Federation has been sanctioned upon the match against Kosovo. Organized groups of children under 14 will be allowed to the stadium during the match against Andorra.

For the two matches coach Iordanescu has summoned 26 players from Romania and abroad. The lineup will include several new players such as Denis Drăguş, from the Turkish side Gaziantep, Dennis Man, from the Italian side Parma and Louis Munteanu from the Romanian champions Farul Constanţa. Tudor Băluţă and Marian Aioani, both from Farul have not been summoned and neither has George Puşcaş, from Genoa. Due to the injuries he got in the latest leg of the Romanian football Super League, fullback Mario Camora from CFR Cluj, has been replaced by Andrei Borza of Rapid Bucharest.

Also in Group I, on Thursday Kosovo plays at Andorra. The match in Tel Aviv, pitching Israel against Switzerland has been postponed for November 15th due to the state of war declared in Israel. On Sunday, Switzerland receives Belarus, and the Israeli representative is to go to Kosovo although the game in Pristina could also be postponed. After six games already played in the EURO 2024 preliminaries the Romanian national side ranks second in the group with 12 points, two points behind Switzerland. If they beat Belarus, Romania could top the groups ranking.

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