On Thursday Romania\u2019s football team resumes the qualifiers for next years World Cup in Qatar. The Romanian team will take on, in Reykjavik, the team of Iceland, in the 4th match played in preliminary group J. It will be followed by the match with Liechtenstein, on Sunday, in Bucharest. Then, next Wednesday, Romania\u2019s footballers will be up against the team of Northern Macedonia, in Skopje. Of the three matches played so far, Romania has won only one, namely the debut one: 3-2 with Northern Macedonia, on March 25. On March 28, Romania\u2019s footballers were defeated on home turf, 0-1, by Germany, and 3 days later, in Yerevan, they lost, for the first time, to Armenia – score 2 – 3. At this moment, in Group J, Armenia is on 1st position, with 9 points out of 9. It is followed by Northern Macedonia and Germany, with 6 points each. Romania and Iceland are ranked on the last two places in the group, with 3 points each, being separated by the goal average.<\/p>\n
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For the matches with Iceland, Liechtenstein and Northern Macedonia, the coach of the Romanian national football team, Mirel R\u0103doi, summoned six newcomers: goalkeeper Marian Aioani and defender Virgil Ghi\u021b\u0103, from Farul Constan\u021ba, midfielders Andrei Cordea, from FCSB and Marius Marin, from the Italian team Pisa, defender, Andrei Ra\u021biu, from the Spanish team Huesca, and striker Jovan Markovic, from Universitatea Craiova. Of the established players, the striker Florin T\u0103nase, the captain of FCSB team, Romania\u2019s vice-champions, will be missing, as he injured his right ankle in the last match played by his club team in League I and left the national team\u2019s training camp in Mogo\u0219oaia.<\/p>\n
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The team selected by R\u0103doi is made up of relatively young footballers with not much experience in international matches. There are a few exceptions though, namely Vlad Chiriche\u0219, from Sassuolo, with 64 selections, Nicolae Stanciu, from Slavia Prague, with 42 selections to the national team, R\u0103zvan Marin, from Cagliari, with 30 selections, and Alin To\u0219ca, from Gaziantep, with 25. As for the rest of the team\u2019s footballers, they have not played for the national team more than 20 times. (LS)<\/p>\n
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