The oligarch Bidzina Ivanishvili, seen because the shadow chief of Georgia, will give greater than 10 million {dollars} to the nationwide soccer staff, certified to everybody’s shock for the spherical of 16 of Euro 2024, has introduced his political social gathering on Thursday.

The gamers of this small nation within the Caucasus beat Portugal 2-0 on Wednesday, a historic victory of their first worldwide competitors.

The staff, coached by French coach Willy Sagnol, will face one of many event favourites on Sunday, Spain, the three-time European champion.

Whatever the end result of the match, the ruling Georgian Dream Get together has already introduced that its honorary president, Bidzina Ivanishvili, will award the staff a reward of round $10.7 million.

If the footballers win towards Spain, this sum shall be doubled, the social gathering added in an announcement.

Bidzina Ivanishvili, the richest man on this former Soviet republic, has been quietly presiding over Georgia’s future for a decade, although he doesn’t maintain authorities workplace.

His fortune is estimated at $4.9 billion, virtually 1 / 4 of his nation’s GDP.

The 68-year-old was prime minister from 2012 to 2013 after founding the Georgian Dream social gathering, which has taken a conservative and anti-Western flip lately.

His critics accuse him of desirous to divert Georgia, an EU candidate, from its European path to convey it nearer to Russia.