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Press and Journal
a day ago
- Politics
- Press and Journal
Visa delay could leave FCSB without three players for Europa League tie at Aberdeen
FCSB face a nervous wait to secure visas for three of their players ahead of their Europa League play-off first leg in Aberdeen on Thursday. Defenders Risto Radunovic of Montenegro and South African Siyabonga Ngezana, and midfielder Baba Alhassan of Ghana, have not yet secured their visas to make the trip to Pittodrie for the first leg against Jimmy Thelin's side. FCSB president Mihai Stoica hopes the issue can be resolved so that the trio can make the trip to the Granite City in time for the game. He told Prima Sport: 'We still don't have visas for non-EU players. 'We couldn't apply for a visa, we didn't know if we weren't playing in Scotland – Ngezana, Radunovic and Baba Alhassan. 'But there's still one day, we can solve it by tomorrow. 'We couldn't apply in advance, there was no reason. It's not a problem for us, we pay for each visa, £16 each. 'There is a danger that the three of them will do what Tom Hanks did in the movie The Terminal. 'I hope that doesn't happen. 'We found people from the Romanian embassy in London and the consulate in Edinburgh eager to help us. 'The problem is that it doesn't depend on them. We have nothing to do. We paid the emergency fees, we did our job.'
BBC News
a day ago
- Sport
- BBC News
FCSB trio face visa race ahead of Pittodrie play-off
FCSB face a sweat over whether a visa issue will rule three of their players out of Thursday night's Europa League play-off first leg with Aberdeen at left-back Risto Radunovic, South African centre-half Siyabonga Ngezana and Ghanaian Baba Alhassan have all made the trip to Scotland, but their involvement remains the matter unresolved, the trio had to stay at the team hotel on Wednesday night instead of training at coach Elias Charalambous said: "The boys are in the hotel, unfortunately, not something that depends on us, the club tried their best from the moment that we qualified because we couldn't make anything before we were not sure, so we had to wait."Now they came with us, they are not yet allowed to come to train with us because the papers, the visas are not ready, we have to see tomorrow if the visas are ready tomorrow everything will be fine because I believe that missing one training is not a big deal for them.""We have to be ready for everything, we have a huge squad, many players, whatever the situation is we have to find the correct solutions. I am not worried because we have players."Even if the players are not able to play, I hope they will be, because as many players as we have, more solutions for us, but we will see."The Romanian champions will go into the game as favourites, something Charalambous is not paying any attention added: "I believe that the two games are 50/50, starting tomorrow, I believe that the team that will qualify will be decided next week in Bucharest.''I have in my mind to see two very tough games that will be decided next week."
