Mircea Lucescu speaks out about his health condition

Mircea Lucescu, the experienced head coach of the Romanian national football team, has made his first statement after being hospitalized following a health scare at the national team's training camp. The 80-year-old veteran coach stated that he is in good health while sharing details about the incident.

The Romanian coach noted that the intense anger he felt during an analysis meeting for the national match played against Turkey triggered the situation. "I am fine now. However, I got very angry when I started the analysis of the Turkey match. Even though 3 days had passed since the match... Because of this anger, I felt very bad and realized that I could not breathe normally," he said, describing what he experienced.

Addressing reports in the press claiming he had suffered a heart attack, Lucescu clearly stated that these allegations did not reflect the truth. The famous coach said, "I did not have a heart attack in any way; I saw that some people wrote that. I only had fibrillations (heart rhythm disturbances)."

Noting that he had experienced similar health issues before, the Romania national team coach shared that he faced the same type of health problem during his time at Brescia and at the end of last year. "This happened to me for the first time when I was at Brescia. It was very cold outside then, and they took me to the hospital. They told me that if I couldn't get out of the fibrillations on my own, they would apply shock treatment the next morning, but my pulse returned to normal by morning. I experienced this at the end of last year as well. Now it happened again. I will have a series of more tests tomorrow," he said.

Continuing his remarks, Lucescu also touched upon the developments in the friendly match against Turkey, emphasizing that he was particularly saddened by the goal conceded. "We made some mistakes in the Turkey match... Especially in the goal position, we shouldn't have acted like that... It shouldn't happen... That is the main reason why I was so angry today," he said.

Claiming that Turkey experienced a drop in performance, especially in the second half of the match, the experienced coach concluded his assessment by saying, "The Turks could not maintain the tempo after the 60th-65th minute, and that was exactly when we could have surprised them. Those who analyzed the match carefully saw very clearly that Turkey actually did not surprise us at all."