Gigi Becali spoke on the phone with George Copos, and the former owner of Rapid advised the businessman from Pipera to build a stadium so that FCSB would have a place to play its home matches and no longer be dependent on the National Arena.
The billionaire announced that he is not tempted to invest in a new stadium, but if he did, he would allocate a budget of 200 million euros.
“I’m Gigi Becali, I make it for 200 million”
“I talked to Copos. Wow, boy… I don’t know what came over me. I saw an interview and called Copos. Wow, boy… I missed him. What a good boy he is! He said: ‘Boy Gicuță, you’re too old. Don’t answer Simion, don’t talk about him. You’re too old, Gicuță, to pronounce his name.’ He was my friend, I said. He said it wasn’t worth talking to him. He also told me to build a stadium. So what, am I crazy? He said I have to build a stadium, so that something will be left behind. Me, if I build a stadium, I don’t build it for 50 million. I’m Gigi Becali, I build it for 200 million. The problem is that I’m not an idiot. Since I have a stadium to play in, why should I build another one? Copos said that the stadium will remain for hundreds of years. I talked a lot with Copos,” Becali said, according to Fanatik .
How Gigi Becali revolutionized FCSB training
FCSB’s financier, Gigi Becali, revealed some of the secrets to his team’s success and how he managed to revolutionize the training sessions led by Elias Charalambous.
“That’s how I saw it (no – in Barcelona, pass, pass, pass). I say the simple, minor things… And I said, well, why do they pass… The minor things. Because I don’t know how to say things technically. But why do they… When they have, they pass within 3 meters.
The ball comes to him and he deflects it to that one. That one passes it to that one, quickly, in two meters, three meters, tsk-tsk. Why do they do it like that? Why can’t we do it? They make a kind of move and advance with the ball, they don’t stay still like in training. And I saw that they don’t stop the ball anymore, they pass from the first one. And I saw that when we did this, when Olaru was in the game, we were the same.
And we are just as dangerous when we do this now. I mean, we play at speed… We are dangerous in every phase to score a goal. And then I told them: well, I have a request that you must do. I don’t interfere in your training, but I want one thing. I don’t want you to say takeover, pass in training anymore. That’s what I heard: takeover, pass, takeover, pass. And I told them that I don’t want them to say it anymore. “Well, how should we say it?”. Say pass, pass, pass! No takeover!
That if he hears a pass and has to take it, he will take it, because he will create the optimal situation to pass. So he will instinctively take it to pass. But if you tell him take it, pass, he doesn’t pass from the first time. Because you tell him the word take it. And instead of passing it, he takes it because you told him. I have a psychology degree. I have a doctorate in psychological sciences,” Gigi Becali said, according to GSP .