Roland Labuchidze
Journalist of “World Sport” and web-site worldsport.ge
Secretly led in Georgian basketball since 1994.
Masked worked in newspapers: “Rezonansi” (Sport-Rezonansi”), “Sarbieli”.
Specially masked has been working for editorial of newspaper “World Sport” Since 2006.
 

 If we take two words “secretly led” and “masked” from dossier, it can be said that he was known among us as ordinary, honest journalist until identification of Roland Labuchidze by Georgian Basketball Federation and representatives of Super League. If there timely actions which are common for world leading security agencies did not take on, masked Roland Labuchidze (nickname “Rolo”) would go on stupefy of authorities of “World Sport” and now… now “Rolo” cannot harm us, us and especially basketball federation, Super League, because as I, chief redactor of this web-site was told three days ago, according to decision of Georgian Basketball Federation, Roland Labuchidze will not be allowed any more to attend matches organized by federation (national team and Super League matches, because Super League is ruled by federation).

As a result, actually Labuchidze will not have any duty during the whole basketball season (besides European tournaments, where some Georgian players compete and you perfectly know for how much time they play for Euro tournaments) and he will not be able to write biased articles any more.
Exactly in this biased articles was exposed our journalist.  But as GBF informed me Labuchadze by stealth of editorial, secretly had relationship with unknown person or group of people, who is (are) still unknown for us (this second photo shows it well). We have to wait for their identification in the nearest future, because as GBF promised us they will make steady their testimony with factual materials.

It is really interesting what kind of concrete facts will they represent, but we if think a little, are facts necessary? – if we follow the logic, it is clear that Roland  planned everything in advance and then realized! However, when did he start planning?

Let’s look through the history:
July 30,2010: interview with the title– “ Kokoskov Makes Surprises Ready to Opponents” http://worldsport.ge/Read.aspx?news=9024)
very important fact (two facts) at the beginning of the interview:
1.     even then, two years ago, it was evident that talking to Kokoskov is problem
2.    Exactly then “Rolo” started Antikokoskov actions, when he congratulate him becoming coach of the year- big agents, mafia men do not behave in such way- but he tried to please Kokoskov and later he did “fatal hit”.
Extract from this mentioned interview:
“Labuchidze: Since 2009, when you named as coach of year, it is first time we have chance of talking to you (July 30, 2010- editorial). That’s why we congratulate such success later.
Kokoskov: Thanks a lot. It is not only my merit, it is team’s merit too. Of guys did not play well, I would not be named as coach of year”.
--- the first opinion, which came to opponents now sounds like that – do you see, in 2009 he was named as coach of year, for two years he has been being appraised by them and now he is a bad coach”.
First, no one (we do not say) that Kokoskov is a bad coach and we know quite well that bad coaches are not employed as assistants of chairman in NBA. As for me, I liked him at the beginning, because national team became more organized after his appearance, there were done distinguished changes in the team and most of the players started doing their best for the team. 
But in spite of this, the main thing for Georgians is how much productive, profitable is coach for the team and how he follows development tempo of the players.
Let’s make some comparison between football, which is our weak point and basketball- how do you think, who is better specialist Kokoskov of Hector Raul Cooper?
The answer is simple- Kokoskov needs a long time to become equal with knowledge and result with Cooper. But we even do not want to remember what kind of result and progress brought Cooper to Georgian national football team. According to it, it can be said that opinions are changed about a good coach, very good coach and the best coach according to periods and results. So, appraisal to someone two years ago does not mean to worship him forever. In the contrary, if you worry about your national team and you have sense of responsibility, you have to express your opinion (even wrong) as you can, if you are right it is good, but if you are not opponents can give arguments. Achieving common goal is possible only in such regime of normal argue. By the way, in this interview which is mentioned above a lot of interesting things are mentioned, it is relevant to today’s situation: it is about Vladimer Boisa, Quynton Hosley and what is the main thing it is about weak playing the last period- is there any familiar thing for you reader?
Yes, it is familiar for you, but you are wrong if you think that it is Kokoskov’s fault- no! it is “Rolo’s” fault! As it seems Labuchidze did so much that with some mystique-magic power made Kokoskov not take minute-breaks in decisive moments in a row in three qualifying matches of European championships. But it is nothing in comparison what Labuchidze managed to do before starting qualifying tournament- he forcefully made him release three players from national team (Tskitishvili, Vladimir Boisa and Gamkrelidze) and made replace these players with such players, who cannot be relayed on in the decisive moments.
In a word, what kind of person is Roland? He owns such magic power, such devil and hates his homeland so much that even does not care national team’s interests.
One more thing:
 We perfectly know that we cannot do everything appropriately (due to subjective and objective reasons) and we do not consider ourselves as the best journalists of the world. But we have been working in Georgian information sphere and we do our best to improve quality and number of information.
In our opinion, ranking of worldsport.ge is relevant to our work (you can see daily ranking of the web-site at www.top.ge , according to Google, your ranking is higher).
Why did I say it- Roland also is not the best journalist who writes about basketball and he knows about it, but he realizes and understands it well (we used to talk about it many times and according to our relations I can say it).
And what happened then? – it is not necessary to be the first, if we think a little, sometimes it is better to be the second than the first in professional thing, because you know that even one person does something better than you and finally works of both these people will bring profit to common job.
Readers of this web-site read many times timely made interviews by Roland Labuchidze, for example:
about Zaza Pachulia, when  his child was born or about prolongation of contract in “Atlanta”;
About Tornike Shengelia, before that match, when was decided that “Toko” would  join “Brooklyn”;
About chess players who were competing at Olympaad. There was such occasion:”World Sport” informed Gia Giorgadze president of Georgian Chess Federation that Georgian women became Olympic Champions. In two minutes Mister Gia would know about it, but, it was just very pleasant process, after calculating coefficients and telling first such glad news to take first interview;
… about Anna Tatishvili, Besik Liparteliani, Nikoloz Tskitishvili, Manuchar Markoishvili, Viktor Sanikidze..
He does his best to represent young Georgian sportsmen as often as it is possible- so he does his duty. And not matter who and how prohibits him doing it, he will continue doing it, because he did it in the worst situation.
For example, in the middle of 90years, when basketball gyms were not heated and when we were given reports after the match (which is really merit of the current federation and staff of Super League) on the blank of sheet of paper ( and there were collected a lot of such papers) where was marked with points or another way points, rebounds, assists and so on of   those young players who are veterans now (Vladimir Stepnaia, Vato Natsvlishvili, Davit Tortladze, Rezo Chkheidze)..

-all this is important, but the main thing is another- this man writes truth and writing truth is more important than writing about analytic with fluent Georgian, especially about such analytic which is written because of becoming these remarks secondary and then to be forgotten (which is very common).
… Yesterday at Kokoskov’s press-conference Roland Labuchidze was not allowed to attend and with very offensive ways (but not allowed enter to the press-conference is already offensive), as reps of federation told me this following article is the reason of it

(http://worldsport.ge/Read.aspx?news=41211), with the title: “Georgian national team deserves much better coach than Kokoskov”
It goes without saying that there is said directly that the author is not very satisfied with Kokoskov’s work or how he can be satisfied, when he could not improve the problem which was the same two years ago, he did a lot of mistakes at European championship and now he added staffing problems to all these.
I saw with my eyes that members of our team were out of breath and how Pachulia and Shengelia lost points in a row next to basket, when they owned the ball- only due to tiring!
When one of our redactors told me about turning out Rolandi and at the same time Gocha Kacharava who writes about basketball informed me that in protest of this fact he also wanted to leave the briefing, but I told him to stay, due to two reasons:
1.    I did not want our editorial to behave like basketball federation (I apologize to those people from their staff who does not deserve it)
2.    Our reader as well as we (people working in this editorial) wondered very much what Kokoskov will say about these matches (you saw what he said)…
While writing yesterday’s press-conference, I specially told to Gocha Kacharva, not to mention the fact about Labuchidze. I thought, that basketball federation would feel that neither I nor Roland are “ambushed” people (for proving it I will represent several links, which are not only Labuchadze’s articles)

 http://worldsport.ge/Read.aspx?news=8816 , http://worldsport.ge/Read.aspx?news=9582, http://worldsport.ge/Read.aspx?news=10051)

They said the following thing to me:” You, Dato Bakuradze and Gocha Kacharava are good in “World Sport”, we do not have any complains with you but as for Labuchidze….
They did not foresaw one thing- this article ( it was like a axe or like a cold shower about won match) was launched by me, because to my mind it had to say timely, especially when it is about national team (so, supposedly they will investigate also whom I am united with).
The first, second, third--- till what time we had to wait? Unfortunately, what was written in Labuchidze’s article realized in the match against Holland – after failure, you complicate everything..
We do not complicate anything and we do not participate in race of “patriotism”, we do not need to swear for representing who loves homeland more.  We again support to our team, as it is common for usual fan and we would be happy if they won four matches in a row. We are ready to overcome that what can be said about us in case of success.

I do not have right, to put sincerity of Kokoskov in doubt, that he really wants Georgian national team to succeed, but wish is the first and the actions are the second. These actions shows positive as well as negative things and we cannot blind ourselves – positive will be written about positive and negative about negative.
Mister Kokoskov takes responsibility. And what is new in it? It is usual thing, but what this responsibility mean? Practically minimum and maximum is the one thing – retire. And what it will bring to Georgian national team, this generation of the team and just fan?
We heard many times in football as well as in basketball, that chairman of the team takes responsibility (as from current as well as from the previous one), but when did we take profit from it?...
Do not think that we are happy that we publish this article on the web-site. Unpleasant thing is unpleasant and that’s all.
You see when this article was published and you see it yourself that we still hoped that basketball federation would come to their senses, but…

 

Chief Redactor of the web-site www.worldsport.ge
Dato Bakuradze
P.S. I would like to thank Association of Georgian Sport Journalist and its President, Mister Elguja Berishvili for support.   We hope that governmental and public organizations connected to sport objectively will react to this fact timely.