Last year Georgian National U-18 was beating Russian team 17:3 at European U-18 Championship, but at the end of the second half there was scored try in Georgian goal and finally they lost 17:18. Nowadays, most players of this team play in U-19 team and are preparing for revenge.
Georgian and Russian National Team will play against each other in final match of European Age Championship 2010, which is underway in Belgium. Eights Tournament which is qualifying stage of U-20 World Cup 2011 had a play- off system. Georgian National Team won over Portuguese one in 1/4final 27:3. They managed to beat their main opponent Romanian National Team in semi-final 29:3. Russian team beat Spanish one 27:15 and then Belgium 23:11.U-20 Championship is divided into two groups. 12 teams will fight for championship, 8 teams go through the second round. Next year World Cup is held in the U.S.A. Zimbabwe (Africa), Japan (Asia), Uruguay (South America) and Samoa (Oceans) have already gained right of participating in this tournament. Argentine which was on the last place last year at U-20 is also among them. According to official web-site of Fira, both finalists will participate in this tournament. In spite of this Georgian National Team will fight for championship and title.
It is worth mentioning that Georgian National Team has the best defensive line in compare with other participant teams in Belgium.
Georgian team is the only team which did not get try in their penalty area. They scored 7 tried to opponents. Bakhva Kobakhidze scored two tries, Chilachava, Dzneladze, Chkhikvadze and Zhvania score 1-1 try. In both matches referee showed yellow cards to 1-1 player.
Georgian team is very inspired. Goderdzi Chincharauli suffers from injury, but in case of need he will help team.
The match between Georgian and Russian teams is held at “Eisel” stadium located in Belgium at 18:30 (16:30 local time) Tbilisi time. “Sport News” talked to Dimitri Oboladze a manager of Georgian National Team in Belgium and got an interview:
- We are very inspired for final. Most of the players are in good condition. Chincharauli suffers a little injury and he will be in reserve staff, but in case of need he will help team. We are looking forward to the match. None of the players worry and everyone is calm.
- Georgian National Team played the best defensive matches during this tournament.
- To tell the truth, opponents did not have chance of scoring the try. Press and TV channels do not show much interest to this tournament.
- Are not players overloaded after so many matches in short time period?
- Our tramp is our physical readiness. They played during 70 minutes without getting tired and they do not have any problem.
- What can you say about Russian National Team?
- We had to watch their matches, but finally we could not manage. As far as we know, it is quite good team and they are physically quite well prepared.
- That is the team, which beat us last year at U-18 European Championship..
- We were winning 17:3 then, but finally we lost 17:18. It was misunderstanding and now we will take revenge on them. Our players are ready and self-confident for success in this match.
- Referee sin- binned 1-1 player in both matches.
- We talked about this with players. We wait for less provocation from Russian side, it was expected from Romanian side.
The main staff of Georgian National Team against Romanian one was the following in semi- final:
Georgia: 15.Zurab Dzneladze14.Levan Gogolashvili (Bakhva Kobakhidze 50), 13. Davit Losaberidze(Giga Gagoshvili 57), 12.Ucha Mchedlishvili11.Giorgi Abramidze, 10.Goderzi Chincharauli(Vano Gabroshvili34), 9.Jimi Ghambashidze1.Zurab Zhvania, 2.Merab Matkava (Irakli Chomakhishvili 55), 3.Levan Chilachava 4.Beka Mitsadze 5.Konstantine Mikautidze (Beka Khipashvili 49), 6.Giga Tkhilasihvili(Giorgi Zhgenti48), 7.Giorgi Tkesheliadze(Lasha Omidze55), 8.Giorgi Chkoidze
3 Tries: Chilachava(38), Dzneladze(46), Losaberidze (56)
1 Conversion: Mchedlishvili (47)
4 penalties: Mchedlishvili(3, 9, 13, 26)
Sin-bin:Mchedlishvili(29)
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