News from Romania: It is not OK for a Coach to Head Butt his own Player

By: Bob | September 19th, 2006

It has been a few weeks since we reported news from our favorite league, but don’t let the absence of posts deceive you, there has been plenty going on in Romanian football. The top story today is the suspension for four games of Universitatea Craiova’s player-coach Ovidiu Stinga.

Following his team’s 3-3 draw last week against Politehnica Iasi, Stinga reportedly headbutted his own player, Andrei Ionescu, because the 18-year-old forward made some mistakes during the match. Now that is coaching that would make Zinedine Zidane quite proud!

Stinga, who used to play for PSV Eindhoven, was also fined 1,334 pounds. His club will appeal the ruling because Ionescu didn’t file a complaint. Can’t say we blame the guy. His coach would probably have castrated him if he had filed a complaint.

Unfortunately, we haven’t been able to track down the actual head butt, but at the very end of the video below you can see a bit of Ionescu’s reaction to things.

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Tags: Andrei Ionescu, head butt, Ovidiu Stinga, Politehnica Iasi, Romania, Universitatea Craiova

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• Bense |  September 19th, 2006 at 3:58 pm

  
  
  

  Wow, that kid is 18 - that idiot should never coach again…

  Posted from United States

  

• john |  September 19th, 2006 at 4:05 pm

  
  
  

  Good work Zidane…….thanks again for your example to the world on how to behave on the pitch.

  regards
  john

  Posted from United States

  

• Nolan |  September 20th, 2006 at 10:51 am

  
  
  

  John, did Zidane kill your children or something?

  Posted from Canada

  

• lazaro |  September 22nd, 2006 at 2:00 pm

  
  
  

  “John, did Zidane kill your children or something?”

  john also thinks zizou was personally responsible for 9/11 too

  Posted from United States

  

• seblarsson |  September 24th, 2006 at 10:55 am

  
  
  

  see what i mean john? look at the other ‘headbutt’ posts and you’ll see his name too, nolan. in fact, you should try googling zidane-bashing and john. i guarantee at least a hundred pages of results. Haha.

  Posted from Singapore

  

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