Romania faces Wales on Saturday night at 20:45 at Steaua Stadium, and the match will be shown on Prima TV. It is the second game with Gheorghe Hagi back on the national team bench, but more important for fans is that this is the first home match of his new spell and the first clear answer to where they can watch it.
That search makes sense because Hagi is back in Ghencea, the place where he once wrote history as a Steaua player. He scored the only goal in the 1-0 win over Dinamo Kiev in the European Super Cup, a moment that still gives the stadium a different meaning when his name comes up there. This time, though, the setting comes with a broader point of interest: the broadcast has moved to Prima TV, after Antena 1 showed Romania’s previous friendly.
The timing matters because Romania arrives in Bucharest after a 1-1 draw with Georgia in Tbilisi, the first friendly of the month. That result did not offer much room for grand expectations, and it gives Saturday’s home debut under Hagi a more measured feel than the return buzz around it might suggest. Antena 1 and Prima TV hold the rights to the national team’s matches, but the practical question for viewers now is simple: the next one starts at 20:45, and it starts on a different channel.
Hagi also has his squad in place for the evening. The goalkeepers are Marian Aioani, Otto Hindrich and Ștefan Târnovanu; the defenders are Deian Sorescu, Tony Strata, Adrian Rus, Andrei Coubiș, Andrei Burcă, Matei Ilie, Lisav Eissat, Mihai Popescu and Andrei Borza; the midfielders are Vladimir Screciu, Tudor Băluță, Nicolae Stanciu, Vlad Dragomir, David Matei, Darius Olaru and Cătălin Cîrjan; and the forwards are Olimpiu Moruțan, Ștefan Baiaram, Alexandru Dobre, Louis Munteanu, Florinel Coman and Denis Drăguș.
What happens next is the match itself, and everything around it is already fixed: Saturday night, 20:45, Steaua Stadium, Prima TV. For Hagi, it is a return to a ground tied to his finest club memory. For supporters, it is the first home test of a new national-team cycle and the first chance to see whether the restart looks better than the draw in Tbilisi.
