After qualifying match of European Championship between Georgian and Croatian National Team (1:2), Temur Ketsbaia head coach of Georgian team mentioned that he is proud of his team and Croatia deserved this victory.
Internet web-site hrsport.net spreads Ketsbaia’s statement: “I am proud of my team, but when you play against such team as Croatia is you will be punished in any minute when you loose concentration. Croatia deserved this victory. Our rival looked physically, psychologically and technically much better than we did. Unfortunately we lost concentration twice and got two goals in our goal. Such things should not happen against such teams as Croatia is. I consider Croatia team as one of the best teams in Europe or in the world”.
- In spite of advantage of Croatia till the 75th minutes you were winning 1:0. Did you believe in victory?
- Match lasts for 90 minutes. We did our best, but it is not always enough. In spite of failure, we proved that Georgian team is not weak rival against anyone.
Ketsbaia mentioned again that he considers Croatia as favorite of the group and Georgia will continue fighting for taking the second place:” we again will fight for the second place. Who will be the first? Croatia is the best team of the group and I am happy that we have equal points after the matches between us – 3:3. To my mind Croatia will take the first place in the group”.
Ketsbaia stated the following about spectators at “Polud’: playing in front of full tribunes is always pleasant. But I preferred silence to last for 90 minutes and not only till the 14th minutes”.
Lasha Tabagari
