News about Mircea Lucescu

Pep Guardiola and Sir Alex Ferguson, the third most influential football manager behind Pep Guardiola and Sir Alex Ferguson, has retired at the age of 78. Mircea Lucescu, a well-known football manager, has resigned. He mainly concentrated on his teaching career in Eastern Europe, hailing from Romania. He comes in second place second only in terms of top management awards, with 35 titles between him and Sir Alex Ferguson.

Dynamo Kyiv – 29 times league champions and one of football's top players – hasn't played a single game this year, despite the fact that their native Ukraine is battling civil war, and they may not have predicted it a year ago. And here they are, 180 minutes from the Champions League's group stages. They've already beat Fenerbahce and Sturm Graz, and if they can scrape past Benfica, who won the European Cup in 1961 and 1962, it will be one of the best stories in modern history. The first leg of the Lodz, Poland, will begin tonight/on Wednesday, with the return of Lisbon next week. These sessions, which are open to the public, players and coaches mingle with children and holidaymakers, signing autographs and posing for photos. Manuel Lucescu, the 77-year-old owner who has been a head coach for more than half his life, has guided them in his extraordinary career. Lucescu has learned more about football than any of his peers, including Shakhtar Donetsk, Dynamo's top rivals, as well as Inter Milan, Galataray, and Zenit St Petersburg's Romanian and Turkish national teams. Lucescu has been much more than a mere footballer since Russia's takeover of Ukraine on February 24, he says. The Romanian helped his Ukrainian players, as well as some of their relatives, leave the country and continue their careers.

PSV Eindhoven needed an extra-time penalty from Luuk de Jong to defeat Monaco 4-3 on aggregate, setting up a thrilling Champions League play-off match against Rangers. The 1988 European champions scored an equalizer through Erick Gutierrez, tying the game 2-2 until De Jong's strike in the 109th minute, leading Monaco in the 89th minute. Last year, UEFA ended the away-goals rule, so Monaco did not advance when the overall score was 3-3 after normal time. Ruud van Nistelrooy's manager, Ruud van Nistelrooy, will face Giovanni van Bronckhorst, whose side pulled off a spectacular comeback to see off Belgian minnows Union Saint-Gilloise beat Glasgow 3-0 and 3-2 on aggregate.