The Georgia Football Federation has sorry this Sunday against the Spanish team for the blackout that prevented Luis Enrique's pupils from finishing training at the Dinamo-Arena stadium on Saturday.
“We apologize to our guests for the discomforts caused by the incident, “says the federative statement. The note posted on Twitter states that the blackout was due to a “technical problem“, Which” was soon resolved. “
In addition, he stresses that “the stadium is now fully ready to host the game “ today, Sunday, corresponding to the qualifying phase for the Qatar 2022 World Cup.
On social media Georgian fans lamented the “shame”Which meant the blackout for the Caucasian country. The sports newspaper “Lelo” ironically stated that the stadium decided to join the government buildings on Earth Hour.
“Hopefully this does not happen during the game“, he pointed.
A local engineer told Efe that said incident reminded him of the blackout that occurred in October 2002 at the Lokomotiv stadium in Tbilisi when Georgia was playing a qualifying match against Russia for the European Championship in Portugal.
“The light went out during the game. The game is not over. It was repeated in April 2003, again in Tbilisi, and then the Georgian team won 1-0. Anyway, I felt ashamed and I thought that something like that would not be repeated. Again I feel shame! ”Said Ramaz Dalakishvili, 54.
The national team trained until the power went out
The blackout, which it only affected the stadium and not to the surrounding buildings, it occurred when the Spanish players had been training for half an hour at the Dinamo-Arena and forced Luis Enrique to send the players to the changing rooms.
Spanish internationals also had to shower in the dark with the help of mobile phones, after which they left the stadium for the hotel.
Before, two spontaneous ones had jumped onto the pitch to take a photo with the players, although they were reduced by the security forces, both incidents that the Spanish footballers took with good humor.