Spain, France, Belarus, Georgia, Finland – such type is one of the Mundial – 2014 groups which is one of the strongest. On July 29 the ballot gave the strongest rivals to “Crusandars”. Spain is Europe and World Champion; France was the strongest from the second basket. Belarus is a fast progressive team, in the current European championship Belarus managed to beat France and take 4 points; as for Finland, it is maybe not the strongest but one of the strongest teams from the 5th basket.
The statistic in official as well as in sparring matches between those 5 teams is the following:
Spain-France 30 matches, 13 victories, 6 draws, 11 failures, goals 57:35
Spain-Finland 6 matches, 4 victories, 1 draws, 1 failure, goals 13:4
Spain-Belarus never held the match
Spain- Georgia never held the match
France- Belarus 2 matches, 1 draw, 1 failure, goals 1:2
France-Finland 6 matches, 6 victories, goals 14:3
France-Georgia 2 matches, 2 victories, goals 4:0
Belarus-Georgia never held the match
Belarus-Finland 2 matches, 2 draws, goals 3:3
Finland-Georgia never held the match
Georgia – France –“Crusandars” played against “Cocks” at qualifying round of Euro-2008. Georgians lost home match which was held on September 2, 2006 (0:3) on June 6, 2007 lost away m match (0:1). French team was vice-president of World and Georgian team was quite weaker than our current team, it took the 6th place among 7 teams.
Ilia Nanobashvili
