The Voluntari Sentinel
Squad31 Aug 2026
Ionuţ Ailenei keeps Voluntari in it on his own
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 9 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Ştefan Văleanu breaks a bone — 56 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 56 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad31 Aug 2026
3 goals for Matko Babić
The match ball belongs to Matko Babić, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Remus Guţea, 19, plays like he has been here for years — 7.93
A mark of 7.93 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 19-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Match29 Aug 2026
Voluntari leaking at the back
6 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.
Match29 Aug 2026
Matko Babić sends Voluntari past Astra
It finished 4‑3, and it was Matko Babić’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Voluntari.
Match29 Aug 2026
7 goals as Voluntari and Astra go for it
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 7 goals between Voluntari and Astra, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Matko Babić was on a different afternoon to everybody else
9.25. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
The terraces31 Aug 2026
The crowd has taken to Doru Andrei
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
In brief
- Squad Andrei Piţian in a row with a teammate
- Player ratings Ion Gheorghe runs at them all day
- Player ratings Doru Andrei makes them all