Ovidiu Balasa

Goalkeeper - Viitorul
27 Aug 2034
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Marked for Ovidiu Balasa

330 Edition

The Viitorul Sentinel

22 Nov 2032
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad22 Nov 2032

Kevin Chacón keeps Viitorul in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 10 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Match17 Nov 2032

Cup progress for Viitorul

A 2‑1 win over Petrolul, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?

Match20 Nov 2032

A 2-goal lead gone for Viitorul

It is a specific kind of quiet, a ground watching a winning position dissolve. Botosani kept coming because nothing stopped them, and Viitorul will be asked about the last half hour all week.

Match17 Nov 2032

Viitorul win it in stoppage time

The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 103th minute. Petrolul will replay every second of the added time for a week.

Player ratings22 Nov 2032

Vlad Maxim scores twice — 8.38

Two goals and a mark of 8.38 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Squad22 Nov 2032

Emmanuel Lwangu says Viitorul went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad22 Nov 2032

Florin Ştefan 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.

Squad22 Nov 2032

Ovidiu Balasa stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Ovidiu Balasa and Viitorul agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Player ratings22 Nov 2032

A masterclass from Marius Stanciu

Marked 8.23 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

In brief

Back issues
327 Edition

The Viitorul Sentinel

1 Nov 2032
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market1 Nov 2032

Dantel Hodges has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Viitorul they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad1 Nov 2032

Tempers go at Viitorul

Stefan Iancu 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.

Squad1 Nov 2032

Words at Viitorul training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Florin Ştefan 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.

Squad1 Nov 2032

The manager makes an example of Florin Ştefan

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Match30 Oct 2032

Viitorul come up short against Petrolul

Petrolul left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Player ratings1 Nov 2032

Nobody could get near Ovidiu Balasa

Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief