Lutsescu: “Hard sometimes, but deeply emotional Savvidis – I am ashamed when I lose”

Razvan Lutsescu, who is in his home country as part of his short -term vacation after the end of the season, was given the… established interview with the media in Romania.

The 56 -year -old coach of the “biceps of the North” spoke, among other things, about his relationship with Ivan Savvidis, how he operates after PAOK’s failures and his childhood.

In detail what Lutsescu said in his interview:

How Ivan Savvides would describe: “He is a deeply emotional man. Even if it is sometimes very tough, it is definitely a deep emotional guy. Sometimes the pressure he puts is excessive, but this is his strategy. He wants to push you as much as possible to get the maximum results. Sometimes the… maximum is excessive. But it is true that not everything is done by being saint. It is done with enthusiasm, done with positivity. He has a specific strategy, all those who were next to him stayed by his side. I feel that our relationship is now out of the professional, I feel on my side. I am convinced that he considers me a family member, although as I told you there are difficult situations. ”

Whether he sees similarities between Ivan Savvidis and Gigi Beckali: “No, there are no similarities between them. I don’t want to compare, I don’t want to go into such a conversation. ”

For his childhood years and if he is missing: “No I don’t miss it. I don’t know why, probably because I feel very good right now. I have gained enormous experiences in life and have lived through many moments. At first they were very difficult. I tried and struggled a lot to win things, to find my way, to create a name especially at the beginning of my career as a coach. With many difficulties, with many battles, with a lot of pressure, but I had a huge motivation to get some results that will give me the opportunity to be satisfied with myself. By turning time back, however, I can say that I have somehow accomplished what I had set. I dismissed this pressure on my own and I was wearing because of my father’s name. Of course I go to every fight with determination, with ambition, to live with intensity. If it’s a victory I have … peace inside me and as soon as the race is over, the preparation for the next begins in my mind. If it’s a negative result … you can’t imagine how difficult it is for me. Everything hurts when there is a defeat! My flesh hurts, it hurts … inside me. I am ashamed when I lose! There are days when I go for training, I don’t get out of the house. The next 2-3 days after a negative result I live … tragic. I still have this ambition within me, but somewhere I am calm because I am satisfied with what I have accomplished in this life. I created, I built a name for myself, I’m Razvan Lutsescu. ”

Whether it’s really so difficult to be the son of Mircea Lutsescu: “In fact I have never said that it was a disadvantage that my father is Mircea Lutsescu. I said it is very difficult, though each of us, lives in a certain way. How he sees, thinks and feels. Whether it was a weight for me the name Lutsescu? It’s somewhere … in the middle. There were situations that were weight for me and I had an extra pressure because you will always hear that comments like “you want to be like your father” or “you won’t be like your father”. It’s very difficult. It’s a negative situation. You can have the power to put them aside one, two, three times but in the end you can’t always do it. Growing up next to him, living next to him, I saw all the other players, he as a coach with the success and image he has made. Probably that inspired me. But I had to fight very hard to overcome this particular situation and prejudice because of my father’s name. When I became a coach I accepted … bullying because of my father and I had to deal with it. There is harsh, negative, unfair criticism. When I arrived at 32 I began to think about working with coaching and told myself that I had to think about what I want to do. I had the proposal from Papersta to become something like the team’s athletic director. At the end of that year, despite the success of the team I realized that I was not for a job … office like this. In that season I was vice -president of the team but with more responsibilities like the current athletes, I also had to play in a match (!). The two goalkeepers were injured, there was only one young man and the president came and asked me knowing that I was in good shape, doing some training. We won 1-0 Arges and I didn’t even conced a goal! In the morning I got involved in the office work and in the afternoon I went to play normally and played in the next match for the Cup in the middle of the week because the two goalkeepers had not been able to return. At the end of that year I decided that I wanted to be a coach, I felt I had to be close to the stadium. I have never been in summary … victim of my father’s name. There were difficult times when I had to overcome, to learn to manage situations. But there were also the positives that I lived next to a man who worked hard to convey this, this idea, this culture. He conveyed this passion for football, for this job. “