Former Georgian Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili promised to give the football team 10 million euros after they beat Portugal at the European Championship.
Georgia beat Portugal 2:0 in Gelsenkirchen on Wednesday and advanced to the round of XNUMX of the European Championship in Germany.
Ivanishvili is known as the richest Georgian in the world, he founded the political party Georgian Dream, which won the elections in 2012, after which he became the prime minister. Although he has only been in office for a year, he is still influential in the country's ruling party as its honorary president.
He said the win against Portugal was "historic" and "a dream", the BBC reported.
Georgia will play against Spain in the round of 21 in Cologne on Sunday at 10:XNUMX, and Ivanishvili said that he will give the players another XNUMX million euros if they win that game.
Ivanishvili was born in Georgia and made his fortune in Russia in the 1990s by investing in banking, computers and metals.
Forbes estimates his wealth at more than 4,5 billion euros.
His party announced that the donation to the national team will be paid from Ivanishvili's charitable foundation.
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