This occurred prior to the game for the European Qualifiers, while the Iberian team made pre-competitive movements.

The Georgia Football Federation today apologized to 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 inconvenience caused by the incident, ” the federation statement said.

The note posted on Twitter specifies that the blackout was due to a “technical” problem, which “was soon resolved.”

In addition, he underlines that “the stadium is now fully prepared to host the match” today, Sunday, corresponding to the qualifying phase for the Qatar 2022 World Cup .

On social media, Georgian fans lamented the “shame” that the blackout brought to the Caucasian country.

The sports newspaper “Lelo” ironically said that the stadium decided to join the government buildings on Earth Hour.

“Hopefully this does not happen during the game,” he said.

A local engineer told Efe that this incident reminded him of the blackout that occurred in October 2002 at the Lokomotiv stadium in Tbilisi when Georgia was playing a qualifying match for the Portuguese European Championship against Russia.

“The light went out during the game. The game was 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. I feel ashamed again! ”Said 54-year-old Ramaz Dalakishvili.

The blackout, which only affected the stadium and not the surrounding buildings, 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.

The 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.

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