The Romanian Under-21 team last week secured its first qualification to a European Championship in the last 20 years. Romania managed to finish Group 8 in top position, without sustaining any defeat. Romania had last qualified to a European Youth Championship in 1998, when Romania was the host country.
The last fixture in the preliminaries was the 4-nil win grabbed at home against Lichtenstein. Scoring for Romania were George Puscas on minutes 14 and 39, Ianis Hagi on minute 25 and Adrian Petre on minute 78. For his solid performance for Romania in the match against Lichtenstein, we have designated George Puscas Athlete of the Week on Radio Romania International.
George Puscas was born on April 8, 1996 in Marghita, Bihor County, northwestern Romania, close to the Hungarian Border. He started to play football for a local club, Liberty Oradea. It was there that he was scouted by Internazionale Milano, who bought Puscas for 600 thousand euros. Puscas completed a training with the club's under-18 team, and then the club board moved him to the A team, although he spent a lot of time as a substitute. He was on loan to Bari for a season, and was close to securing promotion to Serie A. Inter then loaned Puscas to Benevento, a team which this time secured promotion to the first Italian league. He then played for Novara in Serie B. This year Inter transferred Puscas to Palermo in Serie B, for a 3-million-euro fee.
Let us also note that George Puscas also has two caps with the Romanian national team.
(Translated by V. Palcu)
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