[1][4][5][6][7] Viscreanu is the only footballer who managed to runaway twice from Romania's communist regime, at that time running away from the country being illegal.

[1][6] However, after ten days he was called with his lawyer at the police station, where he found out that he was deported back to Romania.

[4][6] In 2019, in Barcelona he met with the lawyer that represented him in 1981 and he found out that he was deported because the dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu had a secret agreement with Australia in which he allowed Romania to participate at the tournament but in case someone from the team ran away, Australia had to extradite him back to Romania.

[6] After he came back to the country, for about seven years he was constantly harassed by Securitate officers who literally followed him everywhere he would go and would sometimes enter his house when he was away.

[6] They bought tickets to Frankfurt where Sabou said he had a friend who would help them, but when they arrived they didn't have an entrance visa so they were sent back to Madrid.