New national team coach Kazakhstan famous Italian judoka Ezio Gamba turned out to be a citizen RussiaSports.kz reports with reference to Meta-ratings.kz.
The Ministry of Tourism and Sports of Kazakhstan announced cooperation with the Olympic champion and two-time silver medalist of the world championships, who will help prepare the national judo team. However, as it turned out, Gamba has been a citizen of Russia since 2016 and has been living in this country for 16 years.
Together with Gamba, Russian judoist Robert Mshvidobadze, who lost to Kazakh athlete Eldos Smetov four times, joined the team. Thus, the foreign specialists declared by the ministry turned out to be citizens…
