After the match against Israel, Temur Ketsbaia, head coach of Georgian national football team, held a press conference for locals and 4 Georgian journalists. Jew colleagues rebuked Ketsbaia why he did not attend “meeting” before the match. He answered that he only thought about the match and now they had chance to ask him everything.

- How can you estimate chances of your team in the group?

- As you see, top 4 is already known. I consider Croatia as a favorite. Other 3 teams have equal chances.

- It seems that “closed” football is your playing style. 3 received goals within 6 matches prove that.

- It is statistics. As for today’s match, we did not have any special plan. We just waited for a chance to use it. We had such chance but unfortunately, we could not use it.

Everything is simple – one is what you want to achieve and other what you can do. I am satisfied with my team. Players did everything to save the match but they could not do it. We will try to improve that.

- After this loss new stage of your working in the team will start.

- We are not that team which can win all matches. To tell the truth, our team was planning to take 3 points within 3 matches. We fulfilled the plan in the first match.

- Do you think that Georgian team needs to strengthen attack line?

- We have used all resources. There are no forward in Georgia who was not tested. There are some perspective young players and we will try to improve the situation.

- You have already held both matches against Israel. What has changed since last year?

- My colleague was one of the best European players. As for Israeli team, there are many new players but we knew about their playing style. But we made mistake in defense and were punished with goal. Nothing ends with this loss – we will meet again. 

Phridon Kervalishvili from Tel Aviv