André Rocha

Central Defender - Viitorul
20 Oct 2026
Tuesday
Process

Marked for André Rocha

9 Edition

The Viitorul Sentinel

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Ante Vuković

There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Player ratings

Dragos Marin goes up and wins it — 7.54

A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.54 for the rest of it.

Match

Viitorul make it 3 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Viitorul have 3 straight wins of it.

Squad

Alexandru Mitrita in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Viitorul this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The terraces

Viitorul supporters have found a favourite in Ante Vuković

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Ante Vuković has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Match

Dragos Marin sends Viitorul past FCSB

It finished 1‑0, and it was Dragos Marin’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Viitorul.

Squad

Jonathan Segura falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Player ratings

Razvan Mitrita runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Viitorul pick somebody else ahead of André Rocha

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

In brief

Back issues
8 Edition

The Viitorul Sentinel

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Tempers go at Viitorul

Alexandru Mitrita was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Match

Viitorul see off Pandurii

Three points for Viitorul, 1‑0 the final word against Pandurii in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad

Jonathan Segura gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Player ratings

The afternoon belonged to Marius Nedelcearu

7.86, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Viitorul had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.

Squad

Federico Marcucci falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Razvan Mitrita

Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

3 Edition

The Viitorul Sentinel

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Andrei Puscas

87 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Viitorul lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market

CFR Cluj come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Viitorul did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad

Tempers go at Viitorul

Ovidiu Stanciu was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad

Words at Viitorul training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. André Rocha is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Player ratings

Razvan Mitrita runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market

The Claudiu Stanciu conversation is coming

Everyone has stopped pretending: Dinamo Bucharest will make the call about Claudiu Stanciu this week. Viitorul have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.

In brief