The extraordinary Romanian Second Division starts: “It is unfair”

Turnu Magurele and FC Arges will give this Friday the starting gun to the strangest patch in post-pandemic football Europe. Given the impossibility of completing the Second Division as planned, the Federation of Romania He devised a new format with only six teams -the remaining 15 went on vacation- and a palpable injustice: each club will play a five-game mini season that will start with only half of the points they had before the coronavirus crisis .

In this story there is a great victim: UTA Arad. The team in which Spanish plays Soufiane Jebari He was leading with 11 points of advantage over the second classified. The club, a Romanian football history player who has six league titles in his record, which led him to participate in the preliminary phase of the Champions League in the 1970s, has reduced his lead from 11 to five points. That is why he issued a complaint to TAS that was rejected this week.

“We are not happy with the decision, but it is something that comes from above and the only thing we can do is accept it. We are aware that the situation is complicated, but all we ask is that they not take away points that we have earned on the field. It is unfair“Soufiane Jebari told the Ball Migrants. The Spaniard, with a past in Damm, Girona or Llagostera, had to face Petrolul this weekend, but the detection of five positives for coronavirus in the rival team postponed the meeting. Next Thursday UTA Arad will face Turnu Magurele with the intention of showing that “we are the best team in the category by far.”

In total, there will be four Spanish footballers playing this unusual Romanian Second Division. To Jebari, who starts the leading championship with 25 points, we must add the Balearic Tano Bonnin and the Spanish-Moroccan Saifeddine Alami, They will participate with a Rapid Bucharest that is only one point away from direct ascent. In the same situation is the Petrolul de Pol Roigé, which arrived in Romania just before the health crisis. The first two finishers will ascend directly and the third will play a tie against the penultimate qualifier in First.