Gheorghe Hagi has defended his son Ianis' performance for Rangers after he was hooked at half time of their Europa League defeat at Athletic Bilbao.
The Romanian international was withdrawn at the interval as Rangers eventually went out at the quarter-finals stage of the competition following a 2-0 defeat in Spain.
But Hagi senior - who famously played for both Real Madrid and Barcelona in Spain - insisted his son played well for the 45 minutes on the pitch.
Hagi is out of contract at Rangers at the end of the season and faces an uncertain future at Ibrox.
His father said: "Ianis played 45 minutes in the second leg in Spain.
"Tactically, from my point of view, he did what was needed and what was asked of him... everything.
"This was a match in Europe at a very high level. I thought he did well."
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Hagi junior said after the game that the ref's failure to award them a penalty for a shirt tug on Cyriel Dessers made the difference.
He said: "We are obviously disappointed, angry, probably because we could have played better.
"I think Bilbao for 90 minutes were better than us, but that doesn't take away the incident of the penalty, right?"
