It’s not gold everything that glitters within this Georgia that surprises everyone and everyone at the Eurocup. Beyond the celebrations, the stars that make you fall in love like the Valencian player Mamardashvili and Kvaratskhelia, or from a technician like Willy Sagnol that says things so clearly there is also bizarre stories which do not seem so strange in a country where some freedoms They still have to take a tremendous step forward.
This week for example, the Georgian Dream ruling party has just enacted a law where it is prohibits explicitly ‘LGBTI propaganda’ and the operations of sex change. Opposition parliamentarians refused to vote, in a move that clearly distances the country from its aspirations of entering the European Union. The EU criticizes this measure, as well as another recent regulation known as Foreign Agents Actnicknamed as the russian law because it bears similarities with others that Putin’s Duma has approved for silence dissent and chase critical organizations with power in Russia.
Budu Zivzivadze, 30-year-old forward who plays for the Karlsruher German, from the Bundesliga 2, joined the protests against this Foreign Agents Act. At the beginning of this June, already concentrated with the national team, he assured that Russia “is an enemy state “Not just for us, but for almost everyone.” Zivzivadze had just qualified against Luxembourg almost single-handedly (two goals) against Georgia for the final of the repechage of the Euro. Had been headline in most of the last matches. And then in the friendly against Montenegromade a both during the 10 minutes of the game they gave him.
In Germany, just after his public criticism of the government, Budu barely has played five minutes, those at the end of the first day against Türkiye. Some media outlets more belligerent with the power of Georgian Dream They wanted to attribute this sudden ostracism for having publicly expressed opinions about the country’s controversial politics. The striker, this is how he could be seen yesterday during the quarter of an hour of training open to the Press in Velbertwanders around the grass crestfallen and almost without speaking to his companions.
The truth is MikautadzeBudu’s competition in the forward line and current top scorer of the tournament (three goals), has exploded in this Eurocup. Nobody can dispute the ownership above and in fact it is about to sign for the powerful Monaco. But it is also strange that Kvilitaia and Davitashvilitwo attackers who played much lesssy with worse numbers than Zivzivadze, have taken even more protagonism that he.
“Budu came with us to the Euro and I am very far from politics”, says Sagnol to defend himself from uncomfortable questions about the matter at press conferences. It does not seem that Willy, a man capable of confront the Bayern leadership or the Girondins, who are characterized by their courage, could swallow with orders against the freedom of expression. But that shadow, rightly or wrongly, plans these days over Georgia.
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