“He called me to the Palace and gave me 300,000 euros in cash.” How did Gigi Becali become a financier at another League 1 football club

Ion Viorel (56 years old) played in his career at several traditional clubs in Romania, such as Steaua, Oțelul Galați or Gloria Buzău. Ion Viorel made an unknown revelation about Gigi Becali, who allegedly supported another League 1 club more than 15 years ago.

The former player-coach from Gloria Buzău revealed how the team’s problems did not allow the Buzău team to survive in League 1, after it had been promoted.

Gigi Becali gave 300,000 euros for Gloria Buzău, says Ion Viorel

Ion Viorel he started in big football at Gloria Buzău, the team for which he played for the last time, in the 2006/2007 season. Ion Viorel also played for Steaua, between 1992-1995, but his stories related to the vicissitudes experienced at Gloria Buzău after the 2000s are downright thrilling. Ion Viorel told how the team from Buzo, which was going to be promoted to League 1, did not have enough financial resources to be able to withstand the requirements imposed by the first echelon in Romania at that time.

“It was winter, between 2005-2006. In the winter of 2005, they had one foot in division C (No. Gloria Buzău). I save them and the following year I take them to division A. Three rounds before the championship ends in division B, to enter division A, we were doing all sorts of calculations that we don’t have a budget for the first league.

I receive a call from Mr. Argăseală Come to the palace, Gigi wants to talk to you. I went there and discussed who owns the club, he asked me how much he invested and said: “And do you think that if I give him 300,000 euros he will agree?”. First of all, he can’t keep the team in division A, he has no reason to disagree. We had no way to keep it anyway. “You go and buy the shares in your name.” I can’t go with 300,000 euros, because it’s caught immediately (Gloria Buzău’s patron number). But I told him that he is a boy from our entourage, who also sponsors the team and would have this money and if we involve him and he buys it… I will throw him away”, said Ion Viorel, in the podcast On another level.

Ion Viorel got rid of health problems thanks to football

“Vioara” recently revealed the health problems he had a year ago. Ion Viorel suffered a stroke (stroke), and he confessed that his sports activity helped him in the recovery that followed.

“Being a strong body, doing sports, God helped me and I overcame this problem. Now I’m in recovery, for a year… I was with a friend in the car, I was on the right, he was driving, I was going to pick up my car from the service. The moment I got off I felt sick… The person realized I was not well. My daughter realized when she noticed that I couldn’t speak that it was a stroke,” said Ion Viorel, in the aforementioned podcast.