Razvan Burleanu won the third consecutive mandate at the head of the Frf, with unanimity of votes

Razvan Burleanu won, on Tuesday, the third consecutive mandate at the head of the Romanian Football Federation, being the only candidate, gazeta Sporturilor informs. It was voted unanimously by the members present at the elections held at the National Arena in the Capital.

There were 272 votes for Razvan Burleanu to receive the third mandate, no vote against and no abstentions, notes the cited source.

“Thank you very much. It’s a very emotional moment for me. Thank you for your trust and for this source of friendship. That gives me energy. The energy to continue on the road of integrity, fairness and transparency, the energy to get over the unfounded criticisms and to fight for the most important thing won in these 8 years: a fair competition,” Burleanu said after the result of the vote.

Earlier, the FRF president listed what he is going to do. “I’m not coming to say what I’m aiming for in the next 4 years. Why? Because last year we approved the FRF strategy for 2021-2026, the technical strategy and the strategy for the development of women’s football. We will add three more documents in the coming months: the strategy for the development of futsal, the social responsibility strategy and the strategy for basic football,” burleanu said.

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Răzvan Burleanu:

For Razvan Burleanu, the last four years as president follow, the statute limiting to 3 the number of mandates of a person at the head of the Romanian Football Federation, writes Agerpres.

Razvan Burleanu has been leading the Romanian Football Federation since March 5, 2014, when he won the presidential elections at the expense of the other three candidates: Vasile Avram, Gheorghe Chivorchian and Sorin Răducanu. The day before the elections, Gică Popescu was sent to prison. At the time, he was 29 years old and became the youngest president of the FRF.

Romania qualified only for EURO 2016 in its mandates

With him as president, Romania qualified for EURO 2016. In addition, during Burleanu’s tenure, there were two more euro U21 qualifiers and one recently at U19.

Răzvan Burleanu was born on July 1, 1984, in Bacău. He is the son of the former football player of FCM Bacău and Ceahlăul Piatra Neamţ Gheorghe Burleanu, who had over 300 matches in the first echelon.

From the age of 14 he attended the Courses of the School of Arbitrators, being a referee until he was 19 years old. He attended the “Gheorghe Vrânceanu” National College in Bacau and the Faculty of Political Sciences within the National School of Political and Administrative Studies (SNSPA) in Bucharest. At SNSPA she obtained a master’s degree, and at the National Defense University Carol I she attended specialization courses in the field of security policies and strategies. He obtained his PhD, at SNSPA, in the field of organizational changes produced in Romania as a result of the institutional processes of Europeanization.

He worked successively at: Bacau City Hall, Romanian Parliament – Legal Commission, Permanent Electoral Authority, Presidential Administration – Department for National Minorities.

He was the president of the Romanian Mini football Federation (2012-2014), which he founded.

In 2012, he, together with other representatives of mini football in Europe, laid the foundations of the European Mini football Federation in Prague, being voted unanimously its president, a mandate he held until January 2017. In 2013, in Birmingham, UK, together with the other presidents of continental forums around the world and other mini-football officials, he founded the International Mini Football Federation.