Iuliu Hainal (71), a legendary Tirgu Mures player who made 381 appearances and scored 77 goals in the first division, tells how he lived without a father from the age of five after his father was sentenced to life in prison for political actions. reasons

— Your father was taken to Herla and sentenced to life imprisonment in 1956. Why

– I don’t know anything… Believe me, I don’t know! I also spoke with the brothers, we know nothing, nothing. From the 56th, he left and was gone! After the 1990s, we tried to find out something with the bishop, but we did not succeed. It had to be like that…

– Few people know, but you did not start directly with football.

– With handball. I was also in the junior national team. I also liked basketball, but I couldn’t shoot, so I stopped at handball. I was a two-time national champion. To be honest, I was so poor that I got tennis shoes and handball clothes there! I got nothing for football. At the first practice I attended, they didn’t even give me a shirt. I walked three kilometers from the Institute to the stadium. I walked barefoot through the slush…

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