{"id":121258,"date":"2023-11-21T13:45:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-21T11:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devrri.freshlemon.ro\/news-and-current-affairs\/newsflash\/athlete-of-the-week-87-121258.html"},"modified":"2024-02-19T10:36:27","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T08:36:27","slug":"athlete-of-the-week-87","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/news-and-current-affairs\/sport\/athlete-of-the-week-87-id121258.html","title":{"rendered":"Athlete of the week"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Romanian national football team has booked its ticket for EURO 2024. Head-coach&#13;<br \/>\nEdward Iord\u0103nescu succeeded such a performance with a pool of regulars made of young&#13;<br \/>\nfootballers. Of them, only two footballers had been to a final tournament&#13;<br \/>\nbefore, Denis Alibec and Nicolae&#13;<br \/>\nStanciu. We recall Alibec and Stanciu were under the helm of Edward&#13;<br \/>\nIordanescu&#8217;s father, Anghel Iordanescu, at the 2016 edition of the European&#13;<br \/>\nChampionship hosted by France. Today&#8217;s generation of important national team&#13;<br \/>\nfootballers ok shape in 2019 when Romania&#8217;s national U-21 team reached as far&#13;<br \/>\nas the semifinals of the European Championship, jointly hosted by Italy and San&#13;<br \/>\nMarino. Ianis Hagi is one of the leaders of this generation. We recall Ianis is&#13;<br \/>\ncurrently a midfielder for Spanish first-league team, Deportivo Alav\u00e9s. ON&#13;<br \/>\nSaturday, Ianis Hagi sealed the fate of the match pitting Romania against Israel,&#13;<br \/>\nscoring the winning goal for his team. Romanian national squad&#8217;s 2-1 win&#13;<br \/>\nagainst Israel sent the team to the EURO 2024 one round ahead of the&#13;<br \/>\npreliminaries&#8217; final stage. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Reason enough for Radio Romania International to&#13;<br \/>\ndesignate Ianis Hagi the Athlete of the week. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>In Hungary&#8217;s Felcs\u00fat, the locality that played host to&#13;<br \/>\nRomania&#8217;s match against Israel, Ianis Hagi was on the pitch from the very first&#13;<br \/>\nminute of play. When the score was 1-all, Ianis Hagi shot the ball inside&#13;<br \/>\nIsraeli&#8217;s box in minute 63, scoring the winning goal for his team. Immediately&#13;<br \/>\nafter he scored, Ianis was replaced by Florinel Coman. The score stayed the&#13;<br \/>\nsame until the end of the match. Here is what Ianis Hagi stated after the match&#13;<br \/>\nWe met our set target. That&#8217;s what we worked for. That&#8217;s what we wanted for&#13;<br \/>\nourselves, right from the start and I believe we fully deserved out ticket for&#13;<br \/>\nEURO. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Ianis Hagi is the son of one of Romania&#8217;s greatest footballers, Gheorghe&#13;<br \/>\nHagi. He was born on October 22, 1998, in Istanbul, Turkey, at the time when&#13;<br \/>\nhis father was signed up by Galatasaray. He began playing football with the&#13;<br \/>\nGheorghe Hagi Academy in Ovidiu, a locality in the vicinity of Romania&#8217;s main Black&#13;<br \/>\nSea harbour, Constanta. In 2014, Ianis&#13;<br \/>\nHagi made his debut in Romania&#8217;s League one, also under the helm of his father,&#13;<br \/>\nbeing signed up by Viitorul Constanta. Ianis Hagi&#8217;s career includes stints with&#13;<br \/>\nFiorentina, in Italy, with Genk, in Belgium and with Scottish team Glasgow Rangers.&#13;<br \/>\nIanis Hagi is still under contract with Rangers, but he has been on loan for Alaves&#13;<br \/>\nsince this summer. Ianis Hagi made his debut with Romania&#8217;s national team in&#13;<br \/>\nthe autumn of 2018. We recall that back then Romania secured a 3-nil win against&#13;<br \/>\nLithuania, in a League of Nations match. <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fotballer Ianis Hagi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":571117,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40940],"tags":[33219,29134,30250,32933],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-121258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport","tag-academy","tag-football","tag-loan","tag-win"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Athlete of the week - Radio Romania International<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/news-and-current-affairs\/sport\/athlete-of-the-week-87-id121258.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Athlete of the week - 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