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George Razvan Pandelea-Dobrovicescu is controversial in itself because he has two people in his name. More precisely, George Dobrovicescu has Serbian roots and a part of the name Razvan Pandelea indicates Romanian origin. He is named after his grandfather Djordje Dobrovic, who fled from Serbia during the Second World War to Romania, got married, and started a family. Maybe the two of us wouldn’t have met if UEFA hadn’t connected us. Thus, we are both internal medicine specialists (with some 15 years difference), we both like to watch football, and we both work as UEFA doping control officers. We had to spend time in a kind of bubble due to the epidemiological situation connected us more than usual. We simply had to be careful not to be too exposed to keep our “virus negative status”. And we succeeded thanks to our knowledge and experience, as well as our roots. However, for the two of us who come from the turbulent Balkans, it was not too difficult to understand all the dangers, despite the overall relaxation after more than a year of isolation. And that is more important than knowledge because sometimes people know each other, but they do not understand each other, while sometimes people do not know each other very well but understand each other so well.

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George Razvan Pandelea-Dobrovicescu sam po sebi je kontroverzan jer u svom imenu i prezimenu ima dve osobe. Tačnije postoji George Dobrovicescu  koji ima srpske korene i deo imena Razvan Pandelea koji ukazuje na rumunsko poreklo. Činjenica da se zove po dedi Đorđu Dobroviću koji je prebegao iz Srbije za vreme drugog svetskog rata u Rumuniju, oženio se i zasnovao porodicu. Možda se nas dvojca i ne bismo sreli da nas UEFA nije povezala. Ovako, obojca smo specijalisti interne medicine (sa nekih 15 godina razlike), obojca volimo da gledamo fudbal i obojca radimo kao doping kontrolori UEFA. Činjenica da smo zbog epidemiološke situacije morali da provedemo vreme u svojevrsnom mehuru povezala nas je više nego inače. Jednostavno morali smo da vodimo računa da ne budemo previše izloženi da bi sačuvali naš virus negativan status. I uspeli smo zahvaljujući znanju i iskustvu, ali korenima. Ipak za nas dvojcu koju potičemo sa turbulentnog Balkana, nije bilo previše teško da razumemo sve opasnosti i pored sveukupne opuštenosti nakon više od godine izolacije. A to je nekad važnije od znanja, jer neki ljudi vas poznaju, ali ne razumeju, dok postoji oni koje ne poznajte baš najbolje ali se dobro razumete.