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MUNICH (AP) — Romania celebrated its first European Championship victory in 24 years with its yellow fans.
On the other side of the Munich Arena, Ukrainian players apologized to their fans after the bizarre 3-0 defeat.
Goals from captain Nicolae Stanciu, Răzvan Marin and Denis Drăgus led Romania to their second win in European Championship history on Monday, after a very good 3-2 win over England at Euro 2000.
Edward Iordănescu, the first coach to lead Romania to a European Championship since his father Anghel in 2016, hailed his as a “generation of souls”.
“A fantastic effort from my team. If you have any questions, you can contact me now, it’s a wonderful team,” Iordănescu said a day after his 46th birthday. “We have had golden generations. But this country does not constitute any metal. “, is the generation of the soul. .
“My family has been living in those kinds of conditions for years. But no one has had such a big heart, a soul like that of this team. This will have to be the generation of Romania’s soul. This generation is limitless.
Stanciu also hit the bar when Romania beat Ukraine, which is competing in Euro 2024 amid an internal war and hopes to bring some joy to its citizens as they suffer from Russia’s invasion.
“Everyone has apologized,” Ukraine coach Serhiy Rebrov said. “The players feel that they have not done enough. Because before the game we told you that here we constitute a great and strong country that has been fighting for our freedom for more than two years.
“What I feel, what the players feel, is that we didn’t do well enough. For that they apologized. Now we have to close and prepare very seriously for the next game and show it to the other Ukraine.
It’s an emotional game for both sides. The stadium was a sea of yellow, the main color of both teams.
Romania was making its first appearance in a primary tournament in 8 years. Several players cried when they heard the national anthem.
Just to underline its cause, Ukrainian football announced the installation in Munich of a stadium stand destroyed by Russian troops in May 2022.
“A team on the field, but a million infantrymen who remain and protect Ukraine,” said former Ukrainian coach and striker Andriy Shevchenko, president of the country’s football federation. “We are all in this together. We are betting on the country. We are betting on the other people who are protecting our lives and our country.
Everything was going well for Ukraine until the 29th minute, when goalkeeper Andriy Lunin kicked the ball straight to Dennis Man, who freed Stanciu for a ferocious shot into the more sensitive left corner, contrary to the development of the game.
Eight minutes into the second half, after a quick counterattack, the ball fell softly to Marín and he sent it into the back left corner just outside the area. Lunin, the Real Madrid goalkeeper who replaced the injured Thibaut Courtois for much of the season, was partly to blame when the ball slipped under his arms.
Ukraine came from behind in both of their qualifying qualifiers, but their hopes of doing so were dashed in the 57th minute when Man burst into the box and passed the ball to Drăguș to score.
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AP Euro 2024: https://apnews. com/hub/euro-2024