MADRID, 27 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, received this Tuesday the Spanish-Georgian fighter Ilia Topuria, the new featherweight champion of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), the most famous mixed martial arts championship in the world, and confirmed the processing of the DNI. Spanish of the athlete given his “love for Spain”.
“This morning I received Ilia Topuria, the new UFC featherweight world champion. Your effort, dedication and perseverance have led you to fulfill one of your dreams. The second will also come true very soon. Your love for Spain will be will reflect on your Spanish ID,” Sánchez said in a message published on his social networks.
The leader of the Executive attended to Topuria, accompanied by his partner Giorgina Uzcategui, at the La Moncloa Complex this Tuesday at 11:15 a.m. There, both were able to talk in a room after posing for the media with the championship belt as the protagonist, and before the president showed them some rooms such as the room where the Council of Ministers meeting takes place.
As Sánchez himself revealed, the athlete born in Halle (Germany) and living in Alicante since he was 15 will have Spanish nationality “very soon.” Topuria meets the residency requirements – living legally and continuously for more than 10 years – but Georgia does not allow dual nationality, so the fighter must renounce it.
Sánchez’s words come after Topuria himself confessed, already in Madrid with the belt, that it “hurt in his heart not to have received congratulations from the leader of Spain”, in reference to the President of the Government, whom, however, , assured that he does not hold “resentment.” “It doesn’t change the affection I have for Spain,” he added.
The fighter made history on February 17 by becoming the UFC featherweight champion, after knocking out Australian Alexander Volkanovski, who was defending the title in California (United States), in the second round.
2024-02-27 12:05:25
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