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Italian Daily Il Giornale Dubs Romanian UEFA Cup Winning Coach “Gypsy”

Italian daily Il Giornale wrote Thursday that "the gypsy" Mircea Lucescu, the Romanian coach of football team Shakhtar Donetsk, won the UEFA Cup and brought the latest trophy in the competition to Ukraine.
Italian Daily Il Giornale Dubs Romanian UEFA Cup Winning Coach “Gypsy”
21 mai 2009, 17:26, English

"Mircea Lucescu, aged 64, the Romanian gypsy on the bench took home the trophy: Shakhtar Donetsk won the latest edition of the UEFA Cup after defeating (2-1) Werder Bremen," the quoted source wrote.

The article in Il Giornale goes on recounting the game.

Ukrainian football club Shakhtar Donetsk, trained by Mircea Lucescu, won the UEFA Cup after defeating Wednesday, in overtime, with a score of 2-1 (1-1, 1-1), Germany’s Werder Bremen, in the finals held on the Sukru Saracoglu Stadium in Istanbul.