Tornike Shengelia will be a new Barça player. The Barca club will announce the Georgian as the first market reinforcement for the next course after the Virtus player was the MVP of the Italian League final and took his team to win the title against Brescia.
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In statements collected by Courier of Bologna, Shengelia He has implied that he ends his stage at the Italian club after the success achieved this week. The Georgian leaves the big door to Barcelona, where he will begin a new stage in the already known Endesa League for him. His farewell words intuit that the announcement with the Barca club is imminent.
“This city, this hobby, this team and all who love basketball in Bologna deserved this championship. I am happy to have contributed to bring it home”, Explained a Shengelia excited to conquer the domestic competition. The Georgian thanked the confidence of Dusko Ivanovic After an injury he suffered in the quarterfinals: “It would not have been possible without Dusko, we changed our mentality, made us believe again in ourselves. I thank Dusko for returning to the track when I thought this could not end like this, with this shirt.”
“My family and I have considered our home from the first day”Shengelia thanked all those who are part of the Italian club, in addition to dedicating the trophy to her partner and friend Achille Polonara. “The Scudetto is 100% for him and then for the rest of us. The news knocked us down and at the same time joined us even more to give him this success, in our heads there was no other alternative,” he added.
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“We went to visit him the other day to show him how much we love him and to provide positive energy. If there is something that I know about Achi is that he is a fighter and I am quite sure that he will win this championship“He insisted on Polonara, who was recently hospitalized by myeloid leukemia.
The words of Shengelia hint that his stage in Virtus has come to an end and it seems that the announcement as a new Barça player is close. “At the beginning I had only arrived for six months, but my friend Sanikidze, who had played in the Virtus, told me that I would not make the mistake of leaving. All emotions and all the love I have felt during these years, even of people who are not fond of basketball, It is difficult to express it with words. It would have been difficult to write a better story“He explained.
