Raul Florucz:

5 games, 6 goals – and soon a “Romanian” instead of an ÖFB player?

Raul Florucz could be drawn to Romania.

(Bild: Facebook.com/NK Olimpija Ljubljana)

He is currently scoring at will for Slovenian league leaders Olimpija Ljubljana, most recently six times in five games - and soon possibly for Romania. The Austrian Football Association there is said to be quite specifically interested in ÖFB legionnaire Raul Florucz.

On Saturday evening, Florucz made it ring again. The Austrian put the infamous lid on Olimpija's away win at Primorje with his "net" to make it 2-0. Olimpija are on a roll - ten games, no defeats yet, top of the table. And now it's off to the Conference League unbeaten and there against Heidenheim (in October, incidentally, also against LASK). And Raul himself is not exactly experiencing what you could call a decided crisis of form: He scored a full six times in the last five games - across all competitions. It looks like things are going really well for the 23-year-old.

Romania instead of Austria
Romania's soccer association pricked up its ears. Association officials have already knocked on Olimpija's door with a request for a "slide" to the player. A meeting to sound out possibilities and gather information has already taken place. Florucz should at least not categorically switch to "pull through". Especially as he has not appeared in previous squads of ÖFB team boss Ralf Rangnick (in contrast to Arnel Jakupovic, for example, who also played in the Slovenian league and moved to Osijek in Croatia after a top start to the season).

Digression: About a year ago, krone.at reporter Hannes Maierhofer visited the (still) ÖFB legionnaire in Ljubljana and met him for a video interview:

The technocratic prerequisites should be in place. According to Olimpija, Raul has dual citizenship. The fact that he has three U19 caps under his belt should not stand in the way of a potential move to Romania. Rumor has it that his heart is already set on Austria. However, the prospect of playing for a senior national team should not be completely unimportant to him either ...