Temur Ketsbaia a head coach of Georgian National Team has planned training twice only on Tuesday. “Crusandars” came at “Mikheil Meskhi” stadium at 10:30, Giorgi Merabishvili a forward of Serbian “Voivodina” and midfielder of German “Herta” Levan Kobiashvili did not participate in this training. Merabishvili after club’s match is having rest now and will arrive in the evening in Georgia. Kobiashvli also will joint team today. A captain of “Karlsrhue” Aleksandre Iashvili who suffers from muscle’s injury, had personal training with fitness coach Mikhalis Mikhalis. He left pitch early but in spite of this said that he feels all right. Mate Ghvinianidze’s playing against Malta and Latvia is excluded. A defender of “Miunchen 1860” attended meeting but he suffers injury and Ketsbaia replaced him with Levan Kakubava “Dinamo” Tbilisi. Those players trained in this morning:

Goalkeeper: Nukri Revishvili ( “Anzhi”, Russia), Giorgi Loria (“Dinamo”), Grigol Bediashvili (“Olimpi”);
Defenders:Aleksandre Amisulashvili(“Kaiseryspor” Turkey ), Kakhi Kaladze (“Genoa”, Italy), Zurab Khizanishvili (“Reading”, England), Lasha Salukvadze, Davit Kvirkvelia (Both of them in “Rubin”, Russia),Malkhaz Asatiani (“Lokomotivi”, Russia), Ucha Lobjanidze (“Dnipro”, Ukraine), Mate Ghvinianidze (“Miunchen 1860”, Germany), Nika Kvekveskiri (“Baia”);
Midfielders: Levan Kobiashvili(“Herta”, Germany), Giorgi Merabishvili (“Voivodina”, Serbia), Jano Ananidze (“Spartaki”, Moscow), Gogita Gogua(“Spartak”, Nalchik, Russia), Aleksandre Koshkadze(“Dinamo”), MurtazDaushvili (“Zestaponi”), Davit Devdariani (“Orhus”, Denmark);
Forwards: Nika Gelashvili(“Zestaponi”), Mate Vatsadze (“Dinamo”), Aleksandre Iashvili (“Karlshrue”), Lado Dvalisvili (“Maccab”, Haifa, Israel), Davit Siradze (“Spartaki”, Nalchiki, Russia).

The training lasted for an hour and traditionally Ketsbaia took very active place in it. A head coach of National Team played himself and was giving some notices to his players. The second training will be held at “Mikheil Meskhi” stadium at 17:00 and as for the Maltese, who arrived in Tbilisi at dawn on Tuesday will train at 19:00. Zura Khizanishvili made a brief comment in a talk with “World Sport” in the morning:
“Everyone waits for victory in this match and it is naturally that we also do. But in spite of this it will not be very easy, meanwhile we lost last friendly match with them 0:2. If we fight as we did in the last match, we have chance of gaining 3 points and in the worst occasion – 1”.
- One point with Malta will not be considered as a good result…
- Psychology means much. If we psychologically will be strong in such case it is possible to win over one match even with Brazil. In the latest matches we had good results but besides this we are dissatisfied, especially with Israel. That’s why opponent should be estimated very well.
As for club news, Khizanishvii mentioned that he has chance of playing in “Reading” if he will not shown red card. He mentioned sending off in the match against “Barnsley”. According to him the first yellow card was shown in just way but in the second case he did not touch with opponent and was sent off the pitch unfair.

Lasha Tabagar