In the morning Georgian national football team gathered on “Basa”, technical center of GFF, and Temur Ketsbaia held a press conference. The head of the national team mentioned that Egypt is a strong team but his team will do its best to finish the year with victory.

Davit Devdariani, Levan Mchedlidze, Zurab Arziani, Mate Vatsadze, Jano Ananidze, Buba Daushvili, Levan Kenia – these players will not participate in this match. Ketsbaia called up the following players instead of them: Jaba Dvali, Tornike Gorgiashvili, Lado Dvalishvili, Irakli Dzaria, Irakli Kobalia. The match will be held on “Mikheil Meskhi” at 18:00 on Wednesday.

-         First of all, hello. The match against Egypt will be the last this year. We want to win. We have many problems. There are many changes in the staff but we have a chance to test new players. We want to show good play. Egypt has a serious team. It had great success in Africa in recent years.

-         What information do you have about the opponent?

-         It has interesting technical boys. As we know, head coach of Egypt also made some changes in the staff.

-         Besides result, is there any detail you want to pay attention to?

-         It is good that new players have a chance to play. I will not be truth if I say this match will be good for preparing against France. We play against France on March 22.

-         Will not the team have a friendly match in February or at the beginning of March? For example, you had this year and last year…

-         We do not know yet. It is not so easy.

-         You called up Davit Devdariani. He could not arrive because of injury and played for “Aarhus” on Friday. What can you say about it?

-         We did not say he had injury. He had injury before we called up him. He had to play in matches of “Aarhus”. So, Devdariani could not arrive. (interview of Devdariani”: http://worldsport.ge/Read.aspx?news=44762&lang=1&comments=show#comments).

-         Who will be captain against Egypt?

-         You will find it out on the day of the match.

-         Aleksandre Amisulashvili did not play often in “Krasnodar”. Do you know why?

-         As I know because he arrived from the national team and was tired. I do not know anything else.
 

The national team has two-day practice and it will be held on “Basa”. Monday’s practice will start at 16:00 and it will be open.

Ketsbaia expresses his condolences over the death of Jano Ananidze’s father: “It is a bad news and we all support Jano”.
 

Ilia Nanobashvili