Octavian Popescu (20) impressed two seasons ago for FCSB. Everyone expected the young Romanian player to “explode” in the next period, but his performances went down.

Octavian PopescuPhoto: Flaviu Buboi/NurPhoto/Shutterstock Editorial/Profimedia

This season, Popescu played 6 matches and scored two goals, and coach Gigi Becali announced that the FCSB player will no longer be absent from the first 11 of the Bucharest team. The boss of the red-blue team made another discovery about his “pearl”.

Becali said he baptized Octavian Popescu, who now also has a “new” name.

“I come and talk about George Popescu, formerly Tavi Popescu. I named him George. Now that he was big, I planted him in a barrel. I baptized him as an Orthodox Christian, he repented, I don’t know (…),” Gigi Bekali said.

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