On 23 March the Georgia national team coached by Kakha Tskhadadze held the first practice at technical center “Basa”.

Otar Giorgadze, press attaché of the national team, informed “World Sport” 18 from 23 called up football players were in Tbilisi on Monday. Lasha Parunashvili, Lasha Totadze, Giorgi Chirgadze, Jaba Jigauri (all “Dinamo”), Archil Tvildiani (“Shukura”), Davit Mtivlishvili (“Zestafoni”) participated in the practice.

Nukri Revishvili and Giorgi Navalovski arrived in Tbilisi late. Jano Ananidze is injured and had a rest. Levan Kenia, Levan Mchedlidze and Ucha Lobzhanidze were not at “Basa”.

Tskhadadze called up the following players for the matches against Malta and Germany:

Goalkeepers: Giorgi Loria (“OFI”, Greece), Nukri Revishvili (“Tosno”, Russia), Mikheil Alavidze (“Dinamo”, Batumi).

Defenders: Ucha Lobzhanidze (“Omonia”, Cyprus), Guram Kashia (“Vitesse”, Netherlands), Aleksandre Amisulashvili (“Inter”, Azerbaijan), Solomon Kvirkvelia (“Rubin”, Russia), Lasha Dvali (“Kasimpasa”, Turkey), Giorgi Navalovski (“Tosno”, Russia), Levan Kakubava (“Samtredia”, Samtredia).

Midfielders: Jaba Kankava (“Dnipro”, Ukraine), Tornike Okriashvili (“Genk”, Belgium), Valeri Kazaishvili (“Vitesse”, Netherlands), Levan Kenia (“Slavia”, Czech), Nika Dzalamidze (“Jagiellonia”, Poland), Jano Ananidze (“Spartak”, Russia), Sandro Kobakhidze (“Volyn”, Ukraine), Murtaz Daushvili (“Karpaty”, Ukraine), Giorgi Chanturia (“Cluj”, Romania), Kakha Makharadze (“Pakhtakor”, Uzbekistan).

Forwards: Levan Mchedlidze (“Empoli”, Italy), Bachana Tskhadadze (“Inter”, Azerbaijan), Mate Vatsadze (“Aarhus”, Denmark).

On Tuesday Tskhadadze will hold a press conference at 18:30.