Georgia

[deluded pom?]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0AqPF3pa04

 

[miguel de cervantes]

This is good. Very good. I can only help but guess union had a hand in Gerogia's demise. Seeing home grown domestic clubs spring up with players that have already played and know union well means these guys are serious.

Welcome back Georgia.

 

[Evil Homer]

This is good. Very good. I can only help but guess union had a hand in Gerogia's demise. Seeing home grown domestic clubs spring up with players that have already played and know union well means these guys are serious.

Welcome back Georgia.

IIRC the old Georgia RL was just the Union team playing under a different guise. From what I remember they were kicked out of the 2008 WC qualifying because they claimed that they had their visas refused for a match against Russia, only for it to later turn out that they were actually away representing the RU team at the time.

Good to see them back anyway. Georgia beating Netherlands in front of over 10,000 people in a WC qualifying match is still one of my international RL highlights. They were a pretty strong team too, probably because of the RU influence but if they're anything like as strong then they could definitely be contenders in Europe again.

 

[Bronco Rob]

IIRC the old Georgia RL was just the Union team playing under a different guise. From what I remember they were kicked out of the 2008 WC qualifying because they claimed that they had their visas refused for a match against Russia, only for it to later turn out that they were actually away representing the RU team at the time.

That's what I can remember too, they gained RLEF or RLIF funding and after being banned for a couple of years by the RLIF they all went back to RU.

The Hooligans club in the youtube clip was one of the sides in the Georgian comp before the defection back to RU. I hope this is a serious attempt at making a comeback to League.

 

[deluded pom?]

IIRC the old Georgia RL was just the Union team playing under a different guise. From what I remember they were kicked out of the 2008 WC qualifying because they claimed that they had their visas refused for a match against Russia, only for it to later turn out that they were actually away representing the RU team at the time.

Good to see them back anyway. Georgia beating Netherlands in front of over 10,000 people in a WC qualifying match is still one of my international RL highlights. They were a pretty strong team too, probably because of the RU influence but if they're anything like as strong then they could definitely be contenders in Europe again.

Was it only a 2008 WC qualifier? It seems a lot longer than that.

 

[crimpo]

Yup - but their last match was in 2006 (in the Netherlands)

 

[ed313909]

anyone know where i can get a jersey? National or local team? Whats happened to fortytwenty.co.uk

 

[YANTO]

Yup - but their last match was in 2006 (in the Netherlands)

Their last game was in Belgrade v Serbia in the World Cup qualifiers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4KOrq3JHYU

They hosted the Dutch in the World cup qualifying tournament on May 26th in Tblisi and as EH says, in front of over 10,000 spectators.
They played in the Netherlands in 2005 in their first international game.

 

[crimpo]

I happily defer to you on this Yanto (since you were involved after all) but I thought the Serbian match was on the 13th May 2006. (Academic really.) I suppose its arguable that their scratch against Russia was their last venture in RL but that might be stretching it a bit!