The first winner of the UEFA award # EqualGame was Georgi Guram Kashia, who spoke last season for Vitesse. She encourages football players and football players for behavior in matters of equality, social integration and free access to European football.

He went to the Dutch championship match with a rainbow bandage in support of the LGBT society.

Many people criticized Kashia for this gesture, but he did not renounce his views.

"I want to thank UEFA for the award," Guram's official website says..

"I'm surprised that I was given this award, but I'm very grateful for it".

"Football unites people, gives them so much joy and emotion," added the defender of the Georgian national team.

- I believe that football has a great power to bring people together. No matter what your skin color, how you live, who you are ".

"Football is a great game," Kashia added.. - He can change a person's life for the better. Football taught me everything. Thanks to sport, I became a man. I'm proud to be a football player ".

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