England's U21s have to beat Romania's youngsters to qualify for the next stage of the UEFA Euro competition.
The Romanians qualified through their group by bettering Portugal, Bosnia, Wales, Switzerland and Lichenstein. The have just beaten a useful Croatia 4-1 at San Marino on June 18th, so they are no mugs.
One player in the squad is Ianis Hagi, the 20 year old son of Romania's most well known international Gheorghe Hagi, who strutted his stuff in the 1980-90s. Father played 125 games for his country and over 500 games for a variety of clubs, most successfully at Real Madrid, Barcelona and lastly at Galatasaray. His first class goalscoring tally was 237. Many belters-see below.
In 2009, Gheorghe founded Viitorul Constanta and managed a club based at Ovidui, a town near Constanta, playing and being very successful, in the nation's Liga 1.
Nickname? Pustii Lui Hagi-Hagi's Kids! If any can play like him!!! He was voted the 25th best footballer out of 100 by the World Soccer magazine.
Ianis started at Steaua Bucharest in 2007, went to his father's academy, one of the largest in Europe
until 2014, joined father's Viitorul Constanta until 2016, played briefly for Fiorentina (2 matches) and now is back at Viitorul
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfjYTYWE1FQ MUST WATCH
On the national rosta is Alex Pascanu who plays for Leicester City (or is at least on their books).
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