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Romania’s greatest
football player in history, Gheorghe Hagi, also proves to be a good club
manager. The team he is coaching, Farul Constanţa, won this year’s edition of
the Romanian Football Super League, one round ahead of the end of the
championship. On Sunday, Farul defeated FCSB 3-2 on home turf, and are now 4
points ahead in the standings, a gap which the teams ranking next can no longer
make up for.

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, 23.05.2023, 12:29

Romania’s greatest
football player in history, Gheorghe Hagi, also proves to be a good club
manager. The team he is coaching, Farul Constanţa, won this year’s edition of
the Romanian Football Super League, one round ahead of the end of the
championship. On Sunday, Farul defeated FCSB 3-2 on home turf, and are now 4
points ahead in the standings, a gap which the teams ranking next can no longer
make up for.




In a quite
dramatic match on Sunday, FCSB was ahead 2-0, with goals scored by Adrian Şut, on
9 minutes and Andrea Compagno, 8 minutes later. Farul scored once before half
time, thanks to the Brazilian Mateus Santos. Tudor Băluţă scored for the draw
on 58 minutes, and Louis Munteanu scored the winning goal just minutes before
the end of the match. Munteanu’s goal secured the second championship title for
Hagi’s team, after the one in 2017, when the team was called Viitorul
Constanţa. For the goal that decided the fate of the Romanian Super League this
year, Radio Romania International designates Louis Munteanu as Athlete of the
Week.




Louis
Munteanu was born in Vaslui (eastern Romania), on 16 June 2002. He attended the
Gheorghe Hagi Football Academy, then he was recruited by Viitorul Constanţa. He
made his debut as a striker in Romania’s top league at the age of 17, in
October 2019, in a match against Dinamo Bucharest. In September 2021 he was
transferred to the Italian side Fiorentina, but he never got to play in the
first team there. Last summer he was loaned to Farul Constanţa. He played
several times in Romania’s junior and youth teams, but he is yet to play for
the national team. (AMP)

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