The well-known Georgian football player challenged Mikheil Saakashvili

In Georgia nobody should be explained who is Kakhaber Kaladze. The well-known football player is respected by all republic for many years. Earlier it applauded him for the game on fields of the best stadiums of the world, perceived as the sports ambassador of Georgia in Europe and now the country should think about! You bet: the pride of the Georgian sports publicly declared that he leaves football and now all the forces and talents will direct on that Mikheil Saakashvili won’t be at the head of Georgia any more …

But, firstly, it is about why Kakha Kaladze is so loved and respected in the homeland. Let’s omei the epithets – let’s see what did he achieve in big-time sports? It is possible to envy – the achievements list of the defender impresses.

In 2001 — 2003, 2006, 2008, Kaladze was the best football player of Georgia. He won the championship of Georgia four times as a part of Tbilisi “Dynamo”. In 2003 the post of Georgia even let out the postage stamp in his honor. Then Kaladze passed to other well-known “Dynamo” - Kiev. And here he won the championship of Ukraine and the Cup of Ukraine three times.

The following step in the sports biography of the Georgian football player was “Milan”, popular around the world. And the achievements are corresponding: two Champions Leagues, the champion of Italy, the owner of the Cup and the super Cup of the country, the super Cup of Europe, the world champion among the clubs … And 15 years of performances for a national team of Georgia!

And on May 12, 2012, Kakha Kaladze declared the completion of sports career. He addressed to the fans and made apologies that in one of the matches as a part of the national team he scored two goals into own gate … And then noticed very neatly: “But let apologize those who also score own goals to the country all life”! It became clear that Kaladze won't pass by policy … The athlete publicly expressed the support to Bidzina Ivanishvili whom many call in Georgia as the unique real alternative to Mikheil Saakashvili. He also confirmed that enters the social movement “The Georgian dream”.

When the official Georgian mass media scolded the businessman Ivanishvili, who decided to go to policy only to stop the pernicious for Georgia course of Mikheil Saakashvili, Kakha Kaladze publicly declared: “Mister Bidzina, accept my friendly given hand and you can rely on me as the ordinary Georgian. Today I’m alone, but believe that tomorrow there will be the thousands near you and it would be more the day after tomorrow”.

Why the person, who generally has everything in life and who could live quietly in the West and not think about any problems, suddenly decided to go to policy? The answer was given by Kakha Kaladze:

- I never close the eyes to the truth and always said that should tell aloud … Dear friends, sisters and brothers as your compatriot, I considered necessary to make the statement during the heavy time for our country. However, I am an athlete and the apolitical person and I am not the member of any political party, but it doesn't mean that I won't fix the opinion and express the views when it is the matter of my Homeland.

… The group of people decided to create artificially a new face of the Georgian for many years who absolutely differs from the traditional Georgian and the citizen of Georgia. All traditional holidays or people loved in society are crushed and depreciated. The friendship with Russia is buried and abundantly watered with blood in the war of August 8, 2008. There is their replacement with the monotonous, forged heroes and magic holidays. In Georgia the “window villages and the cities» are under construction.

… The heart-breaking impression when you see the sad faces on streets. They took away the laughter, smile, the feeling of happiness from citizens of Georgia. Prisons, colonies are overflowed by prisoners, the majority of whom is in prison because it is wanted by some representatives of the ruling regime.

It is clear that the choice of the person who is known by all republic couldn't be pleasant for Saakashvili and his team. The dirty PR campaign also began. They hinted that it is not late to stop … But the choice was made not in words, but in practice.

And here already Kakhs Kaladze criticized the traditional annual speech of president Saakashvili in parliament:

- It was the usual performance of the person who looks at a situation in the country through pink glasses. The president and environment hotly applauding him forget that Georgia is already another, the country faces other calls, absolutely other reality.

… The person, who disappeared behind a mask of democracy for many years, showed the real face of the despot. The president openly threatened the parliamentarian with punishment, without having felt ashamed neither million of television viewers, nor deputies, neither ambassadors, nor representatives of church.

… The president tried very much to speak self-confidently about the plans for the future, the person who is always ready to run, from a roar of the plane or the truth said directly, has no serious political future! All saw that facade behind which the existing regime hides.

Here the large-scale attack also began which Kaladze called as “huge wave of black PR”. It reaches funny: the next scandal with fixed matches flared up in Italy: the guilty are defined and punished by the Italian justice. But Saakashvili's regime has other logic: Kaladze played for “Milan” and it is the Italian team and here is the conclusion – the person responsible for the general football evil is found so long masking behind a mask of virtue! After all that artful Kaladze thought up: he created the society “Kala fund” for the help of the needing and youth in education and in vocational training, gave the gifts and provided the monetary help to 30 children, the patients of the National center of oncology. Not in vain he handed over the sportswear to 100 pupils and trainers of football school in Samtredia in which the football players of the leading European clubs play … And here, the representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia takes off to Italy urgently to show up the villain …

But Kaladze is quiet - he declares to the press: «I have a pure past and nobody trusts the thought-up slander. Fight for democracy is included into solving phase and the Georgian dream will surely come true soon”.

And, seemingly, that the matter is not only in policy. In Georgia all know that Mikheil Saakashvili is the person not only vain and ambitious, but also very vindictive. He simply hates, if someone surpassed him in something. And there was such story …

Still before the valorous president of Georgia got away from a shadow of the plane and tasted a tie, they decided to find out in the country, who is the most elegant from the men, who are traditionally considered very elegant? And not simply elegant, but also possesses the best taste …

And here already the weekly “Kviris palitra” interviews in which the president takes part who is absolutely sure in his irresistibility. But the results of poll are similar to a tub of cold water: Mikheil Saakashvili takes only the eighth, the penultimate place and the first place took Kakha Kaladze with big leading.

It is said that Mikheil Saakashvili broke the magic mirror of grief presented by the American friends and when he got to know that the well-known athlete became his irreconcilable opponent in policy, he decided not to allow at any cost that the person who has glorified the Georgian sports, achieved the same successes in policy. He tries very much, but Kakha Kaladze is convinced: “Today it is the time of general awakening and new era begins in Georgia”.