We used to that young Georgian boys are strong but when they start playing for the national team, they cannot progress. It happens because of some reasons: 1. they are lazy to work and have more fun; 2. they do not have a playing practice at the Georgian Championship; 3. they are tested abroad and then they had to return to Georgia.

We know that not being a member of the EU limits Georgian football players. There are some countries where the club must pay three times more for the non-EU player. The clubs avoid spending more money. Besides that, according to the law, U-18 football player does not have a right to sign a professional contract.

The clubs do not want to transfer the Georgians and why: they watch matches of the national teams and clubs and think that such weak country will not have a good player. For example, the Georgian youth teams have good result than Belgium and Austria. The 18-19-year-old Georgian is better than Austrian and when they are tested abroad the Austrian has advantage because he is from the EU country and his national teams are more prestigious.

Of course, there are some exceptions but in case if there is a mega-talent.

Here is the statistic of the Georgian national team, U-21, U-19 and U-17 teams. You can see how big difference is between them. All three age teams have positive result in win-loss column and the national team has minus.

The national team (Temur Ketsbaia)

Official:               8 1 2 5 3:10

Friendly:             8 3 1 4 8:13

Overall:               16 4 3 9 11:23

U-21 team (Aleksandre Chivadze)

Official:              7 4 1 2 10:11

Friendly:             6 4 1 1 15:4

Overall:              13 8 2 3 25:15

U-19 team (Otar Korganidze, Kakha Kacharava, Gia Tsetsadze, Vasil Maisuradze)

Official:           12 5 3 4 18:16

Friendly:         15 7 2 6 23:20

Overall:           27 12 5 10 41:36

U-17 team (Vasil Maisuradze, Giorgi Devdariani, Nodar Akobia)

Official:               16 8 2 6 21:14

Friendly:             16 9 2 5 32:26

Overall:               32 17 4 11 53:40

Here is one important moment: the playing tactic of these youth teams are not similar. Maisuradze, Korgalidze, Chivadze, Devdariani and Tsetsadze play offensive football. The national team plays differently. First of all, it must be balanced so that football player will find it easy to play for the national team.

Ilia Nanobashvili