Coach Edi Iordenescu announced on Wednesday the squad for the friendly matches that the Romanian national team will play against Slovenia and Moldova in November.

Romania will play two friendlies in November, both broadcast in LiveTEXT format on HotNews.ro.

ROMANIA – Slovenia / Thursday, November 17, 18:30, Cluj Arena

Moldova – ROMANIA / Sunday, November 20, 20:30, “Zimbru” stadium, Chisinau.

Edi Yordenescu, forced to give up several important players

Jordenescu said that not all the players he would have liked could be called up for the final training matches before their next debut in the EURO 2024 qualifying tournament.

“As I said at the end of the September campaign, I want to have continuity in the national team, both in terms of strategy and philosophy of the game, and in terms of selection, to form a homogeneous team and a cohesive group.

So for those two matches I had other players from abroad in my list. However, since this was not a FIFA period, there were clubs from abroad who, for various reasons, did not want to leave the players to their own devices, overriding their wishes.

In these conditions, I had to change the strategy and then I invited several promising players who, in our opinion, could present a solution for the first representative team in a short time” – Edi Jordanescuquoted by FRF.

The team called by Edi Iordenescu for the matches against Slovenia and Moldova

Among the 26 players called up, 6 are also eligible for the U21 national team, and 8 could potentially make their first team debuts.

In addition, the average age of the tricolors, who will go to the meeting from the end of the week, is low: 24.3 years.

Goalkeepers: Horatio Moldovan (FC Rapid 1923, 0/0), Stefan Tirnovanu (FCSB, 0/0), Mihai Popa (FC Voluntari, 0/0)

Defenders: Christian Manea (CFR Cluj, 18/2), Alexandra Pantea (FCSB, 0/0), Adrian Rus (Pisa | Italy, 16/0), Ionuc Nedelcearu (Palermo | Italy, 23/2), Andrej Burke (CFR Cluj , 13/0), Radu Dragushyn (Genoa | Italy, 1/0), Nikuzor Banku (Universitatea Craiova, 28/2), Raul Oprutz (Hermannstadt, 0/0)

Midfielders: Darius Olaru (FCSB, 7/0), Daniel Boloka (Frosinone | Italy, 0/0), Marius Marin (Pisa | Italy, 7/0), Tudor Beluce (Farul Constanta, 8/0), Nicolae Paun (Sepsi OSK . 3/0), Antonio Sefer (FC Rapid 1923, 0/0), Denis Dragush (Standard Liege | Belgium, 3/0), Claudio Petrila (CFR Cluj, 0/0)

attackers: George Puskas (Genoa | Italy, 32/10), Denis Alibek (Farul Constanta, 27/2), Florin Tenase (Al Jazeera | UAE, 15/2).