The Voluntari Sentinel
Squad23 Nov 2026
Lisandru Olmeta wins the shoot-out
2 kept out from twelve yards, and a stadium that will describe each of them for twenty years. A goalkeeper needs one night like this in a career, and this was it.
Match18 Nov 2026
The wait goes on for Voluntari
9 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Match18 Nov 2026
Voluntari out of the cup
FCSB ended it 0‑0. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
Marvin Schieb: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Voluntari have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market23 Nov 2026
Lovro Cvek puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Voluntari, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Voluntari count the cost of losing Ciprian Mitrita
16 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad23 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Voluntari
Federico Bicoro and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
A defender's afternoon for Federico Bicoro
Defensive actions: 22. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Words at Voluntari training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Roan Wilson 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.
In brief
- The terraces One of their own: Lisandru Olmeta
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Daniel Dumbravanu
- Player ratings The kick that got away from Mihai Roman