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Schengen’s controversial addition to the CSKA team has received much criticism in his native Sakartvele. Even the president of Sakartvel, Salomé Zurabishvili, spoke about the movement of the basketball player and called his decision “unjustifiable”.
In statements to the media, the president of CSKA assured that this step of the club and the basketball player is based only on political relations and, using a phrase that has already become a classic, stressed that the Moscow club it does not combine sport with politics.
“I heard that the arrival of Tornikė at our Sakartvele club was received in an ambiguous way. However, we are far from political motives in our activities, we participate in professional sports, we strive to play basketball, we delight the spectators and we win. Nothing more.”
A lot of Sakartwell fans have speculated after such a Schengen move that CSKA cannot free one of the leaders of the Transcaucasus state in international tournaments. However, Vatutin revealed that this problem was solved even before the arrival of the Pope in Moscow.
“Let me emphasize that from day one of our negotiations, the most important issue for Tornike was making sure that we would give him the opportunity to join the national team.” We gave him that permission.
I have great respect for Sacartwell and his history. In the past, we had Giorgi Tsintsadze and Manuchar Markoishvili in our club, so we will be waiting for all our Schengen compatriots in our match. “
Representing Vitorija Baskoniai since 2016, Šengelia has averaged 15.9 points, 5.6 rebounds and 2.9 assists for the last season of the Euroleague.
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