Because the elected president of this highly contested election is a former footballer, whose most notable feat of arms, beyond his 46 caps and 9 goals with the “Crusaders” (the nickname of the Georgian selection), will have been this eighteen-month freelance stint with Manchester, from January 1996 to July 1997. Loaned for two seasons to Grasshopper (Switzerland), he then left a club where the big names were Paul Dickov, Uwe Rösler or Kyt Simons, far from the recent constellations of world stars.