Georgian National U-19 Rugby Team will play against Romanian one at European Age Championship and in case of winning will go through the final.
Before starting the tournament “Oak Leaf” was considered one of the strong opponents of Georgian Team. Both of these teams went through the 1/4 final and it can be said that in the semi final will be mini final. In the first stage Georgian National Team beat Portuguese one 27:3, Romanian team beat 36:0.
The match between Georgian and Romanian teams will be held in the city of France, Mons. Mons is little city 50-kilometers far from Brussels, it was established in VII century and nowadays its population is 100 thousand people. A head coach of Georgian Rugby Team Narimanashvili is sure that Georgian team is ready to do the best for winning this tournament. It is worth mentioning that committing a foul is very common for Romanian team. Georgian team should follow the rules and should not get into Romanians trap. This match holds on October 27, starts at 20:00 Tbilisi time.
Georgian National team held the last match with Portugal. Georgian rugby players scored 4 tries. The third-liner Tariel Chkhikvadze scored the first try at the 6th minutes, at the 26th minutes Bakhva Kobakhidze scored the second try. Coversion kicks were not performed well, but at the 32nd minutes Davit Losaberidze performed penalty well and they advanced with 13:0, but before the ending of the first half opponent performed penalty quite well. Georgian team used advantages quite well and at the 40th minutes Bakhva Kobakhidze scored try again, as for Losaberidze he performed coversion kick. At the 45th minutes first-liner Zurab Zhvania scored try and Losaberidze again realized well. At the 52nd minutes Zurab Zhvania was sin-binned and finally Georgian Team beat Portuguese one.
Georgian mains staff against Portugal was the following: (1-15) Zuarb Zhvania (Beka Bitsadze 48), Zurab Eristavi (Vano Gabroshvili 63), Merab Matkava (Giorgi Tkeshelidze 63), Irakli Chomakhidze, Levan Chlachava (Jimi Ghambashidze 63), Taiel Chkhikvadze, Konstantine Mikautidze, Lasha Lomidze, Giorgi Zhgenti (Giga Tkhilaishvili 48), Goderzi Chincharauli , Ushangi Mchedlishvili, Davit Losaberidze, Bakhva Kobakhidze, Giorgi Chkoidze, Ramaz Jinashvili.
The winner of U-19 Championship gets right of playing in U-20 World Cup, where 8 teams from different continents participate. The U.S.A. hosts World Cup, Zimbabwe (Africa), Japan (Asia), Uruguay (South America) and Samoa have already got right of playing in this tournament. Argentine national team, which took the last place last year at this competition is among them.
EuropeanU-19 Championship2010
October 27
Semifinalsfor V-VIII places
Ukraine– Portugal(18:00 )
Poland- Spain (18:00)
Cup’s semifinals
Romania- Georgia (20:00 )
Belgium - Russia (20:00 )
Zura Ksovreli
