Georgian people forgot all problems due to terrible video records, which were spread two days ago. It is the topic, which must be reacted about and it will be topic of discussions for a long time. A lot of people even could not manage to watch it..
Georgian football players did not show their indignation too. A lot of players of national team published their opinion about it in social net-works.
“World Sport” talked to experienced player of national team, member of “Kayserispor” defender Zurab Khizanishvili:
Zurab Khizanishvili: I have never been such insulted. It is beyond all the measures. I am in such condition that even cannot control my words. I have to say: I have never made political statement, but now I cannot discrete – this people have to go. I do not care who will come into authority but they have to go. They must not be forgiven! Is it being Georgian? No candle, no God, no Patriarch? Some people might forgive them but the God will not.
- What about Turkish reaction?
- My teammates called us and asked me, what is happening, what was shown… what I had to say? I was keeping silence and was ashamed. I went to the training very ashamed, I hardly managed to train. No, I am not ashamed due to Georgians. They must be ashamed who do not have blood. They are not Georgians. I repeat it again: if after October they will stay, nothing will help people..
…it is difficult to change a topic after all these, but Zurab also talked about football, about club and national team:
-“Kayserispor” has difficulties. After four matches we do not have any victory. If you watch matches, you will get surprised that we have only one point. We create moments, but we cannot score. We are unlucky, but I understand that we cannot continue like this. I do not blame our strikers, but when you cannot score after so many moments, it is psychological moment.
- Are there serious talks about firing of Shota Arveladze?
- No, there are not. Shota has a big authority here and no one talks about firing him, if he does not retire. I do not say it because he is Shota- he does everything perfectly, explains, pays attention to the details too. Everyone sees that he is not guilty in our failure. It is understandable that when the result is bad, it is head coach’s fault, but they see that the club plays quite well.
- Let’s talk about national team: please estimate the matches against Belarus and Spain.
- We planned to gain three points in these two matches and we did it. It would be perfect if we did sensation and did not lose with Spain. I am very disappointed. Till the 86th minute the best team of the world could not manage to score against us and as for us we had two moments. It is serious thing. Several days ago, we lost with “Orduspor” which head coach is Hector- Raul Cooper. Cooper talked to me a little, well-done you endured the Spanish very well, during the watching I thought that you would manage to play draw.
- It was very common that Georgian national team could not show real resistance against grandes. What did happen this time?
- First of all we very determined. I was looking forward to this match so much, that when I woke up on September 10 and the match was on September 11 I was disappointed. I was in a hurry… at the beginning of the match Loria played brilliantly, Okriashvili managed to win over three defenders and we had moment and all these encouraged us. That’s a football: when you see that you have chance, you are motivated and you play. It is a pity that I crashed to Loria and due to it he was substituted. Of course we cannot blame Kvaskhadze, because it was impossible to parry our Kvaskhadze’s kick.
- Which Spanish player made the most impression on you? It is clear that this team is team of stars, but who is your favorite player in it?
- They are too fast. Xavi, Iniesta and Silva are phenomenon players. I had played against Silva before. When they bring the ball and you think I will touch it now, you are deceived. They can lie people with movement of eyes. And we were playing 0:0 till the 86th minute against such team..
Ilia Nanobashvili
