The Football Museum in Bucharest announces its partnership with Guique Popescu, a Romanian footballer with an unrivaled track record and current manager of Farul Constanta. The only Romanian in history to captain Barcelona will play an active role in the museum’s long-term strategy and how every football enthusiast will experience Romania’s most beloved sport in the new museum in the Old Center of Bucharest.

The footballer has had an impressive career both at club level and with the national team, where he is in the top 3 most capped Romanian players. In addition, Guique Popescu left a noticeable mark in the history of the tricolor, playing 115 times for the national team, for which he scored 16 goals and with which he participated in 3 World Cups and 2 European Championship finals.

At international level, Guique Popescu is the only Romanian footballer to wear the Barcelona captain’s armband, adding to the fact that he has won three European trophies with different teams: the Cup Winners’ Cup with Barcelona, ​​the Super Cup and the UEFA Cup with Galatasaray .

“I was general school captain, secondary school captain, junior captain, national junior captain, Craiova University captain at 20 and so on, captain, captain, captain. Now it’s time to be the captain again. This time my team is much bigger. It consists of all those who love football and who are expected to experience it like never before. See you on the “field”, at the Football Museum in Bucharest!” said Gicke Popescu.

The Football Museum will open in the historic center of Bucharest, and tourists will have a 360° experience where they can enjoy impressive exhibition spaces, reliving moments from football history through interactive digital and virtual reality experiences. . Football fans will be able to enjoy collections of items that belonged to both Romanian and international players. In addition to the exhibition spaces, the museum has a cafe, a bistro and a private room for events permanently available to visitors.

“One purpose of the museum, a place that does not depend on the outcome of the game, is to bring important moments of football to the attention of visitors. We strive to unite everyone who is passionate about a team, and this team, like any other, needed a captain. If you think of a captain in the history of Romanian football, the one who wore the “Barcelona” armband in a team with Ronaldo, Figo or Guardiola immediately comes to mind. With his impressive career and the extraordinary stories he has to tell, Giuke Popescu is most suited to the role of captain of such a special place as the Football Museum.”– added Romeo Banica, Executive Director of the Football Museum in Bucharest.

In addition, visitors will be able to find some of the shirts worn by Guique Popescu, including the one he won the UEFA Cup with Galatasaray after scoring the decisive penalty in the final against Arsenal. The T-shirt has the signatures of all Galata teammates.

Along with the Gike Popescu T-shirts, other objects directly related to football can be seen in the Football Museum in Bucharest. Some of the valuable exhibits that will be found in the museum are: the shirt worn by Maradona in the 1983-1984 season when he played for Barcelona, ​​the shirt worn by Hagi in the 1990-1991 season for Real Madrid, the Ronaldo shirt the match shirt of the national team of Brazil, signed by the double winner of the Golden Ball, as well as Ronaldinho and Roberto Carlos.

About the Bucharest Football Museum

The Bucharest Football Museum is the first football museum in Romania that aims to offer the local public and foreign tourists who choose to visit Bucharest an interactive experience with the history of football at the highest level. The Bucharest Football Museum, located in the Old Center of the capital, spans 8 levels and will house collections, interactive experiences, event space, fan shop, bistro and cafe for the first time in Romania. More detailed information can be found on the museum’s official website: www.footballmuseum.ro.