Hagi: 'Romania could have beaten anyone' | 1994 FIFA World Cup
2012 ж. 7 Қар.
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Famous players from Romania's golden generation talk to FIFA Futbol Mundial about the exciting team at the 1994 FIFA World Cup USA that surprised the world with great goals and a trip to the quarter-finals.
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As a brazilian, of course I was supporting Brazil, but Romania was my second team. I remember Hagi very well and his fantastic left foot. They played beautifully and I felt really sad when they lost to Sweden in a game which looked already decided.
and as a romanian i can say that ,after Hagi,my favourites are ronaldo and pele.but ronaldo was astonishing..
+Peristilo peris what is sad is that they lost to a relative weak team like Sweden while having taken out tougher opponents
Oi ! Sou Romeno e falo um pouco de portugês. Falo melhor por voz, mas vou tentar escrever. Em 1994 tive 14 anos e amei muito, muito a equipe do Brasil. Fiquei muito feliz quando ganhou. Claro que se a Romenia tivesse jogado com o Brasil, eu tiria apoiado meu pais. Uns 4 anos atràs comecei a estudar o português do Brasil, mais ou menos depois da copa mundial de 2014. Amo o seu país, o pessoal daí, a cultura brasileira, a sua língua incrível (que tem suas particularidades bem definidas em comparação ao português de Portugal). Espero que Brasil vai ganhar na Rússia. Um abraço !
Mok Leor, Your Portuguese is really good! I was also 14 in 1994 and watched Brazil win the W.C. for the 1st time. Romario, My favourite Brazilian player ever, carried that team on his back offensively in many games. That Brazilian team was also great defensively with many good defenders and only suffered 3 goals in the entire tournament. Those were great times and i miss that. Teams had great talent, different than today. I remember that amazing Romanian team and Hagi was unbelievable. There was only one bad thing about him, which was he didn't play for Brazil :) Yep, the Brazil will face Mexico in a world cup of upsets and hopefully can pull that through, in a world cup of many upsets so far...
Yep
Hagi is the cleanest striker of a football I've ever seen. He made long distance shots look so effortless, pure technique. A truly gifted footballer.
Ibrahimovic?
Of course Hagi was amazing player.. incredibly skilled
Hagi one of the best
Il maradona dei carpazzi
Remember Enzo scifo? Belgium player who could also hit the ball .
i from japan. when i watch this world cup, im 11 years old and 94 romania national team is magical team. i like this team ever now!
Not 11 anymore, happy Time Travel
@安達志宏 Too bad the Agony of Doha prevented Japan from going to that World Cup. I hope to see Japan have more success in the future! Cheers from Brazil.
Romania team will play in Tokyo at the Olympic Games this year 🥰
Hagi was the idol of 94 world cup. When we talk about Romania we remember Hagi. Great player.
as cryuff said hagi was the best player in the world in 94'
no that was Thomas Ravelli, the reason the romanians lost to begin with. Godlike goalkeeper and criminally underrated
@@resorbandhell you mean romania lost on a penalty lottery. Bulgaria and Romania in 94 had national teams top 5 in world
@@theterrobear2716 and yet sweden came further than they did. Like Belgium nowadays
@@resorband that's football, that's sports. The better team doesn't always win. Thomas Ravelli remains in history as a nobody, Hagi and Stoichkov on the other side have been listed in Pele's 100 greatest ever players. These 2 teams played a very technical eye pleasing football, Sweden was playing like all the nordic countries at the time, a brutal physical game.
Did anyone ever noticed that over 70% of his goals were from outside the box?
Because he wasnt a forward, he was the brain and he was in his habitual position, great Gica.
:)))))))) is the only player in football history with a high rate of long range goals
him and stevie g could have held the midfield on their own in any team. You could easily play 8-2-0 with Hagi and Stevie G as the 2 midfielders and be the favorites against anyone :)
he was the best player you can ever watch from outside box. He was like that 3 pointer in basketball, you dont want to leave alone on the 3 point line. You had to constantly defend him even outside box. This comment is coming from the person hated to watch him as a opponent of Galatasaray. I literally hated him for that but respected at the same time.
we ALL did! It's hard not to
Hagi was amazing in 94! A once in a lifetime player for Romania.
Hagi is one of the brilliant footballers i have seen.
Romania have a one legend player. Just one. Gheorghe Hagi.
unic legend
Me too
He was icon of world and turkish football
@@Sir.croccodile644 ianis isn't too bad either
strangely Romania and Bulgaria were the best on world cup 1994. The final Bulgaria Romania would have been epic Edit: WOW, a lot of people seem to agree 3 years later.
+thgfhrthtgh ....why is that strange? Romania has had great players many times...
Because recently, the 2 countries suck, but they were good back in the days
Ah ok, like that. Good times, bad times...
at least for Bulgaria, the match between Sweden was not important, because either way, they win bronze medal
I dont think the referees would have let that happen,a final between Romani and Bulgaria,a lof othe times they bury smaller countries
Hagi was sheer class one of the best I’ve ever seen .In Italia 90 we were lucky to beat them on penalties because hagi was unstoppable that day
Aye... Ireland... I cannae forget our Timofte s missed penalty against you...
Hagi,one of my all-time favourite players. A genius and a joy to watch.
as argentinian i remember very well that match.. 9 years old crying getting back home from a birthday party.. I used to love that romanian National Team, Hagi, Popescu, Petrescu, Domitrescu.. there were great teams at that world, Bulgaria, Romania, Argentina (with Maradona) Germany, the mighty Brazil, the american good team.. THE BEST WORLD CUP EVER, such great teams..
Romania’s goals against Argentina was master class and elegance at its purest form in football!!
Hagi is not only belong to Romanians. After 2000, his also belong to Turks. We love him with our hearts.
I am Brazilian and I was in love with Bulgaria 🇧🇬 and Romênia 🇷🇴 in this World Cup , in 2015 I went to live in Bulgaria and I visit Romênia 🇷🇴 as well. I love both countries and I knew all the names of the players. I was only 7 at this time
I’m Mexican American and I remember Hagi n fell in love with Romania because of him. I was 7 in 94
King Hagi 👑 🇷🇴 Love from Brazil 🇧🇷
i remember how close Romania was to play against Brazil in semifinals in 1994 ... Hagi and Popescu vs Romario and Bebeto i could play even 1000 US dollars to attend this match LIVE in that year... football stars , what show they could gave to entire world ,a legendary match ! instead we had to see a boring Brazil-Sweden 1-0 in that semifinal...
Baggio, Romario, Stoitsjkov, and Hagi really lighted up that world cup, my favourite tournament of all time!
when I talk to Romaniand, I always mention Hagi. Hagi to me symbolizes Romania's beautiful futbol, country and people. They had a great 1994 team.
Hagi's long range shooting was Elite level! Never seen a better striker of the ball from that range, he was deadly. But not only that, he was like the Romanian version of Maradonna. Overall a unique player, I always look at him in my old Championship manager games as my number 8 - huge fan of his!
1994 I was 18 years old living in California. One of the best years of my life and Romania surprised the world with those two magic wins against Colombia & Argentina! What a shame by that stupid goalie against Sweden. Will never forget that moment. Romania would of won that World Cup pretty much!!!
Colombia is no where in Football so that shouldn't be surprising that Romania beat them but it is surprsing that Romania defeated Argentina
@Electro Power see what Pele said about plaing Romania or Sweden. He said, after Sweden won, : " We are champions now" . He didn't want any moment to play with Romania. There war big chances to lose against Romania.
@@Darkscenes-jp4ge Columbia was one of the biggest favorites to win the World Cup in 1994! So that is why Romania made a big surprise defeating them!
@@codrutcroitoru Argentina too.
@Electro Power you are just a statistician😉. here we are talking about football and real playmakers. HAGI was fabulous, for example. Brazil or the other teams did not have such a complex player, an artist, with an incredible vision of the game.
Team Romania was so amazing in 94 World Cup, 98 World Cup and 00 Euro Cup. After that, Team Romania was at very long time at the bottom. Time flies. Currently, Ianis Hagi, the son of Gheorghe Hagi, became one of the top member of Rangers in Scottish League. I really hope that Team Romania to be able to restore its glory and legacy as soon as possible.
come back in like 25 years...lol !
@@befreetv354 I’m afraid you are a bit to optimistic..I think Duckadam is right...
Whenever people talk about the best players of all times they always overlook Gheorge Hagi. He belongs to the olymp of football gods with the likes of Maradona, Pele, Zidane, Cruyff and so on. When he came to Galatasaray Istanbul in 1996 it was mainly due to him they became champions four times in a row (1997, 98, 99, 2000) and they won the Uefa Euro Cup (vs. Arsenal) and Super Cup (vs. Real Madrid) in 2000. A free kick was like a penalty for him. Best shooting skills ever, no matter from whatever angle. Forget C. Ronaldo's shooting skills. Hagi was the real deal. They say he was the Maradona of Carpathians. Actually Maradona was the Hagi of Argentina :)
Gheorghe Hagi's technique is simply exquisite. That goal was unsaveable dipping in from the top down
Here in Sweden , we could not believe our eyes. From leading 1-0 , Romania equalizing then taking the lead 2-1 in extra time AND one of our boys gets red card , it couldn’t have been more darkness. Then suddenly 2-2 and on top of that , we actually WIN the penalty round. Theese things NEVER happen to us usually. I remember people of all ages , sizes , classes , occupations and colours running around outside in the warm summer night , cheering , singing , hugging and waving the flag in euphoria.
We, being Romanians, also could not believe our eyes , but unfortunately for us, in the opposite way. We cried a lot, and even after those years,we are still thinking how would it be if Prunea, our goalkeeper, would have been more careful. For us , that was the biggest World Cup, as i think(maybe i am wrong) it was also for you. What can I say, as a child being i was totally angry and i hated Ravelli :)) After growing up I understood that I don t have to hate Ravelli, I have to appreciate the fact that he was a really talented goalkeeper, and in my opinion, that is where the difference has been made between us in that game. I hope for both of us sometimes we will meet again in a world cup quarter final, or even in a European Championship.But my country, Romania, is now very far from getting there.
codrutcroitoru : as a little comfort , many years later , your guy was invited to a talkshow here in Sweden , and got the opportunity to do the penalty shot all over again , on Ravelli. This time he absolutely nailed it. And no one was more happy than Ravelli. I think the clip of that is here on youtube. Stay safe.
Well Roger,I'm glad to know now that the pain I've felt was not for nothing.Thank you
Wow!
@@bamboochaatit7266 : No problem. Wouldn’t it be fantastic if we met at that high level once again ? At least we can dream about it.
I was at this game ROMANIA VS ARGENTINA , the best game of 1994 WC.
Balkan football is much better than people give us credit for. Romania and Bulgaria in 1994. Croatia in 1998. Turkey(yes,technically Balkans) in 2002. Greece in 2004. Turkey again in 2008. Greece in 2012 and 2014. Croatia in 2016(should have progressed further).
pretty much the whole inter milan team
Not only that.Also Real Madrid of 98,Barcelona in the early 90s,Galatasaray 2000,Panathinaikos of the early 00s,Olympiakos of the late 90s,Fenerbahce 2000-2007,Dinamo Zagreb late 90s...Steaua 80s,CSKA Sofia 70s,Partizan 60s,Crvena Zvezda 70s and 90s...The current Juventus based in Pjanic and Pjaca..Barcelona and Real's Croatians...and so on.
stupid romania is not balkan
YOU are the stupid one. prntscr.com/d9f7m5 All countries seen here,are part of Balkan peninsula.Idiot.
Δημ. Yugoslavia had a great run in the 50s
Hagi is not Maradona of the Balkans...is Gica Hagi of Romania !!!! Ours symbol !!!
best midfielders top 100 word cup : Zidane, Maradona, Pele, Michael Laudrup, Zico, Platini, Matthaus, Xavi Hernandez, Charlton, Francescoli, Gullit, Socrates, Figo, Neeskens, Pirlo, Mauro Silva, Vieira, Falcao, HAGI, Dunga, Ballack, Beckham, Gascoigne, Keane, Michel, Davids, Tardelli, Scifo, Ribery, Luis Fernandez. Belive me he was the best !!!!!
***** yes,he was the best in the balkans.if u state diferently please give us an example of a better player than hagi from this region
Mircea Ciobotaru Stoichkov
You see something about Pele in my post ? youfuckingfuck !!
I see that your brain is short...show me where I put Pele one of the greatest midfieldersof all time ????
Hagi was a brilliant player he really was The King
In my heart Romania won the world cup then!
@Juve Bulgaria were the real winners of this tournament. They were robbed by FRENCH referee (Bulgaria won against FRANCE 1993 and because of that they didn`t qualify). They were unstoppable and I think that the real final was BULGARIA VS ROMANIA. Stoichkov would have decided the match by penalty :)
@@kubratmitev4827Ah you tell me brother. I saw the offside of Kenderson goal in the minute 115' the comentary saying it too and now its history, never can be fixed again....😢
That's true Hagi , your team with you , your style were the best ever for that 1994 world cup! I never forgot that world cup because of the possibility that Romania had and lost that way. You were the Maradona of Argentina for Romania! I wanted so so much to see Romania against Brazil after you guys won Colombia and Argentina. You guys were simply the best in that world cup! Bravo.
Sweden better😂
@@shineonyoucrazydiamond824 where are u now??? Lol
I really supported a Romania at this World Cup, they were brilliant. I am Brazilian.
Generatia De Aur a Romaniei una din cele mai valoroase echipe de fotbal din acea perioada.Puteam sa batem orice echipa a lumii nimeni nu ne statea in cale dar asa este in viata castigi dar mai si pierzi!Respect pentru cea mai buna echipa de fotbal a Romaniei cu cei mai buni jucatori din acea perioada!
Mda, numai ca schimbarea portarului a fost cea mai tampita idee pe care am vazut-o in istoria fotbalului.
Care noi bre? Ce numar aveai pe tricou? Lasa-le draq de seminte, ti s-a urcat la cap te crezi coechipier cu Hagi
@@criztu noi(echipa romaniei/a tarei noastre)
Salute to my favourite football legend Georghe Hagi amazing skills accuracy and goals
Cine e aici de la noi? Nu-mi vine sa cred cat de mare este Regele și cât de modest își trăiește gloria..dintotdeauna. Mereu când revăd imagini cu el din anii de glorie mă uimește și mă inspiră. E un exempli de ambiție! Te iubim, rege!
cand ai suflet nu vrei sa tio iei in cap tio iei o data de 2 ori vezi ca iti pierzi concentrarea si nu tio mai iei incerci sa fi cu picioarele pe pamant de asta iti zic nu ar vrea tocmai de asta sa nu sio ia in cap dar omul care face asa ceva are o inima buna daca nu mare asta imi place la machidoni permit unui asa om sa traiasca chiar daca nul cunosc nu fac rahaturi
omg I m glad to see George Hagi after long time ...I love him. he was one of the best in 1994 !
Aparat
Really enjoyed their team, just like many other teams. Bulgarya, Italy, Brasil, Nigeria, Holland..what a fantastic World Cup it was.
Hagi still hasn't forgiven the goalkeeper then haha
He was a tremendous player.
Not sure about that, but Hagi was an unbelievably talented player. One of my favourite players ever.
When football was a competition,when talent was shared evenly.
I was 14 at that time & Hagi won my heart though I'm die hard supporter of Brazil. Love from Bangladesh 🇧🇩
I never forget Adrian Ilie. As a dutch boy, watching football those days he was one of the players of other countries I could enjoy so much watching. Damn, was he good. Such an underestimated player.
he played in world cup 1998 , Romania-Colombia 1-0 (they met again ,after world cup 1994) goal Adrian Ilie (min.45)
A whole generation of great players, let down by a joker calling himself a goalkeeper.
Din pacate...
I remember a lot of these players played the Intercontinental Cup for Steaua Bucaresti against River Plate from Argentina, and even thought they lost the game 0-1, their goalie was a BEAST; almost invincible, I wonder why he didn't played the World Cup. (P.S. That same goalie stopped all 4 of the penalty shots against Barcelona in the Champions League Final)
Jorge Espinoza he had the “International Messi syndrome”
One bad play does not make him a joker.
Michael Lubin in that contest it does. When you play in a world cup, you have to be well trained, to let in only the goals that you simply can't save. He let us down. We could've qulified but one mistake took us the chance to win the trophy. Also, the penalty was very easy for the goalkeeper. It was a bad shot.
L-am urmărit mereu pe Haji cu mare plăcere, dar dacă ar trebui să-l compar, aș prefera să-l asemăn cu un alt mare fotbalist cu numărul 10, Zico. El a avut aceeași privire pe joc și pasele sale frumoase pus echipa sa înainte! Un jucător ca Haji ar onora orice echipă braziliană. Apropo, Runonia din anii 1990, a jucat ca mare echipă braziliană din 1982, iar eu am visat în secret la o finală România - Bulgaria. Asta ar fi fost ornamentul mundialei. Cu respect - salutări din Bulgaria!
Prunea; Petrescu, Popescu, Belodedici, Prodan, Selymes; Galca, Hagi, Munteanu, Dumitrescu; Raducioiu.
Un genio absoluto del fútbol. Contra Argentina en el 94 dio una cátedra.
Romania was such an entertaining team to watch back then. The 94 WC was the first one I remember watching and Hagi was one of the three players along with Romario and Stoichkov that struck me as an 8 year old. So sad Sweden again were so lucky! It would have been an awesome semifinal between Brazil and Romania!
HAGI🤴 real playmakers. HAGI was fabulous, for example. Brazil or the other teams did not have such a complex player, an artist, with an incredible vision of the game.
How were Sweden lucky?
@@keving8631 Their equalizing goal in the final few minutes was a mistake from the Romanian goalie. Also that game went to a penalty shootout which can go either way. Sweden were lucky that day.
@@SleepingCube you dont understand what luck means, yeah the last goal was a misstake but that is on the keeper and not luck. If romania had a better keeper this would not have happened. And penalties are the same for both teams so you are wrong
From Morocco respect to This Legend Team
I remember as a kid pretending to be Popescu when we used to play at the park. Happy Times!
La multi ani rege !
Proud of my country, Hagi our king🇷🇴
Loving from Turkey. Hagi is on of Galatasarays legends
HAGI İS THE BEST PLAYER. BEFORE AND AFTER... IF HE IS BRAZILIAN. ALL WORLD ACCEPT THAT, HAGI IS THE BEST FOREVER... HE IS ROMANIAN BUT HE IS AGAIN BEST BEFORE AND AFTER.. HE IS BIGGEST PLAYER... HAGI = A TEAM
Kızıl Deli Abartma
So beautiful said ! 👏👏👏
Você é muito exagerado
What are you saying?
Roménia e Bulgária fizeram um mundial encantador! Futebol puro e raiz!
Haji at that time for me was the best player in the world. What a left foot incredible. Thanks for the memories Haji.
you could at least spell his name right
hagi*
Yes, very special player and oh, that sweet, left foot*
He was my favourite player at the first world cup I remember watching as a kid.
Hagi,legend.
Romania played amazing! Enjoyed watching them. And Hagi.... The football recital
Romania juca atunci,fotbalul care il joaca echipele de champions league, sau nationalele puternice din ziua de azi, desi am trait acele vremuri, mie nici acuma nu imi vine sa cred ce fotbal jucau acei jucatori, si ce fotbal joaca cei din ziua de azi. Refuz sa cred ca nu vom mai juca vreodata un asa fotbal!!!
que time sensacional esse da Romênia era lindo ver eles jogar
Crazy how Romania went from one of the best team in the world and now is one of the worst.. 😶
RAZZVY unexpected one of the best teams in the world at that time
@Birman Hitman not one of the worst. But not one of the best anymore
even in 1994 they had a strong squad but they were not the "best team" of 1994 Brazil had the strongest squad 2nd strongest Was Bulgaria and Italy's squad was 3rd strongest and I would put Romania's squad as 4th strongest in 1994
Nope Romania would not have defeated Brazil in the semis
Birman Hitman as long u in the top 32 I consider the country world class
Gheorghe Hagi un om din Constanta Romania si unul dintre cei mai mari fotbalisti ai echipei nationale! A meritat numele de Rege! Romania in perioada aceea putea sa invinga orice echipa nationala a lumii! Respect Hagi esti constantean de-al meu! Viitorul este al tau! Hai Viitorul! Echipa de aur a Romaniei! Asa fotbalisti nu se mai nasc in Romania! Hagi merita statuie impreuna cu ''Generatia de aur''!
How disappointed I was with the elimination of this selection from the 1994 World Cup. I wanted the final to be Brazil and Romania. Very cool to see this team play.
The problem is this match would have happened in semifinals.
Hagi was extraordinary player. he was probably not the best player but for me he was the best player to watch, enjoy his long passes, his long distance shots. He was the most exciting player to watch. Too bad Romania didnt reach the final with Bulgaria. Amazing Balkan final that could be
Wow Hagi. If only I was old enough to see him play, what a legend. My friend from El Salvador was named HAGI! I wish I was named by him too haha
Looking back at this I realise back then Romania's team was apreciated world wide, these days we cant get back up near that level , is kinda sad. I actualy stoped watching fotball even important like world cup, as a kid I always watch it with all friends, now is just a disapointment to me. Maybe its not fault of new generations, maybe fotball changed too much, maybe these days its too much about brute force , either way, its not the same and proly wont be ever again for me.
If by "football changed too much" you mean the Romanian federation is a corrupt organization, then yes, you are correct.
Don't lose hope. Romania has a pretty good chance of coming up maybe in this World Cup. I think we are actually qualifiers!
+Adrian A If you want to see a change then maybe be the change or encourage more friends or family to play soccer. For example in the US a lot of kids play soccer when they are younger but when they mature and gain more physical abilities they rather play sports such as american football or basketball robbing a large majority of the talent pool for soccer. I don't know much about Romanian football but it seems like they have a decent youth team but it doesn't translate to the senior level.
That was a weird tournament, as Romania, Bulgaria, Sweden, Saudi Arabia, Nigeria and the USA completely creating chaos against the traditional powers. Colombia was the overwhelming favorite to win the whole thing, and could not find their rhythm at all. Brazil played a very unBrazilian game, scrapping their way through, and The Nigeria-Italy game was insane.
I completely forgot about them. They were a hard nose team to play those days.
indeed. They played their heart out.
I also recall Sweden having a nice team as well. And that is also the time when Africa was starting to show real superstars rising in the football world. A great time to be a fan without a doubt.
Carlos Perez Brazil didn't scrap their way thru, yes they didn't play samba football but they were the best team in that tournament conceding only 3 goals.
it has been a long time. i think that you may be right when thinking of it. romario and bebeto ran circles around defenses, and the recalling the sweeden and holland games, brazil had them under control. the Italy final was a weird one, as it was clear that the football gods were not willing to allow for a brazil win during regular play, as it came down to a ridiculous missed penalty by Italy's best player (who had a great game against nigeria). Italy had nice teams during the early 90s, but were unable to put it all together from what i can recall. i also remember colombia as the pre-tournent favorites, but their style of play and lazy defending never gave them a chance. i still recall valderrama being stubburn in trying to play predictable through balls to valencia (as asprilla got suspended if i recall well) that got nowhere, and it was not until playing their last group game where they finally attacked via the flanks.
George Hagi , George popescu, Cladio Taffarel hepsi Galatasaray da oynadılar. Hepsine teşekkür ederim. Galatasaraya yaşattıkları başarılar için.... ❤️💛
Bulgaria and Rumania had their best teams ever in History in 94. Other teams that in USA 94 WC had their best historical teams ever were: Saudi Arabia, Ireland, Norway, Nigeria and Bolivia; and playing world cups out of their country, also: Mexico, Sweden and Switzerland.
god that was SOME team and Hagi was the best of the lot.
i remember it...it was the absolute moment of glory of romanian football...we felt we could take the cup home! The atmosphere back home was magical, we were all glued to the tv the streets everywhere were EMPTY... Thank you legends...
"we were all glued to the tv" 😂😂😂 That's so true! 😂😂😂
Geez, I was ten when this World Cup was happening. Wonderful memories.
Romania 1994 Super Team ;) Great Football ;)
Best football times ever ❤️
Hay un mito !!! En el pasado solo 5 jugadores entendían los pases de Hagi !!! Dumitrescu, Raducioiu, Hakan Sukur ...
By far the best tournament that i remember.
One of my favorite players ever!
They need to bring some form of this show back. Loved it growing up
Hristo Stoichkov of Bulgaria was awesome in that tournament. Sweden were great. England and France didn't even qualify. It was a good World Cup with some great stories.
because England and France missed 1994 world cup tournament , was Romania and Bulgaria time to shine in their places...
Bulgaria beat France in a qualifier in Paris a few months earlier, hence France missed WC94. Great goal in the last minute.
@@nccamsc yes, but they learned from that mistake ,and 4 years later ,in 1998, France became world champion for the first time ,while Romania and Bulgaria disappear from top of football
One of my favorite players of all time. Sweetness
what a beast, imagine the bulgaria-romania final it would be FANTASTIC!!!
Possibly the last World Cup where almost every team had a mercurial champion or protostar in the squad, and some teams had even more than one. Valderrama/Asprilla, Hagi, Romario, Milla, Brolin/Larsson, Etcheverry, Matthaus/Klinsmann, Hwang Sun-hong, half the Spanish team, Maradona/Batistuta, Stoichkov, Yekini/Okocha, Sanchez/Luis Garcia, McGrath/Keane, Scifo, Rijkaard/Koeman/Bergkamp, Owairan. Just to name a few. Great tournament.
I'm from Brazil and I really liked the football presented by Romania and Bulgaria.
Hagi is the best ever romanian player and one of the greatest of all time
genius football players always were born with legendary names which remains in the history of it
Mi ídolo futbolístico
Greetings ,from🇸🇩🇸🇩
I remember that i was young and watched movie the goal from HAGI.
Romaina would of won the world cup if it wasn't for one stupid error.
***** What does "would of" mean? :D
+Smexy Guy XD You should really exercise your english language!
if they had a better goal keeper
as in not losing to Sweden?
Ye should of having Nicky and elana over ye
Hagi was also instrumental in Turkish side Galatasaray winning it's first uefa cup, against arsenal. It was the first ever European trophy won by a Turkish side.
Romania scored 2 (of 3) brilliant goals against Colombia, Gheorghe Hagi was a highly talented midfielder and he had a brilliant world cup; most people remember that match based on the victory obtained by the Carpathians. But the final score was really unfair and Colombia deserved better luck. Bogdan Stelea was the absolute man of the match, he made almost impossible saves to prevent Colombian goals. If you go over the whole match you'll realize that Romania played almost all the time with ten players close to Stelea's goal. They made a counter attack magisterial class.
If somehow , Romania would've got to the semis , then maybe , just maybe ,they could've gone all the way . It's great to be reminded of how great a team Hagi & Romania were , very stylish football to watch too .
It wasn't the first time Kennet Andersson scored a goal like that so he knew exactly what he was doing.
HAGI ..., El Patron de S .America ❤⚽️
I believed they were the best side of that World Cup and, after all these years, my belief remains.
Also in Italia '90, Romania and Yugoslavia were the best footballing sides, but they both went out in the 2nd round, had they advanced to the latter stages, people wouldn't have such a negative view of the quality of football at Italia '90.
The success of Argentina added to that feeling. They were a lower than average team, but Maradona´s influence on them was strong and wild. I think that Cameroon, Brazil, and even England also showed some quality at that World Cup.
Blessed to have you at Galatasaray. You are a GOD for us. No one has a shot like you.
The romanian goalie wasn't at fault with the header that seweden scored. No one was marking the guy that scored, he had a huge amount of space. With the distance that there was between the guy that scored and the net, chances are low that he would of missed the header, even if the goalie stayed back. The goalie did the right thing in trying to rush that ball, he just didn't predict that they would cross that far from box. This was a DEFENDER mistake, not goalie.
i could cry watching him ,he was awesome!!
As a Nigerian World Cup 94 was my fave..Nigeria & Romania lit the tournament up that year
Sunt romin si Hagi e in sufletele noastre !!
Hagi is right up there among the worlds greatest footballers no doubt
Hagi was without doubt the best player at the 94 world cup. And all his career he was genius.