International bookmakers give little chances to the representatives of Moldova to Eurovision

The biggest foreign bookmakers give practically zero chances to the representatives of the Republic of Moldova that participate at the international song contest Eurovision 2006 in Athens to take a place that would offer the chance to qualify automatically for the next year’s edition. The coefficient of William Hill bookmaker house for the song “Loca” performed by Arsenium (ex-O-zone), Natalia Gordienco and Connect-R is of 126 while the coefficient for the song “Tornero” performed by Mihai Traistariu (Romania) is 6, for the song “Never let you go” of the Russina singer Dima Bilan – 13, and for the song “Everything” performed by the front-runner competitor, Ana Vissi from Greece – 3.5. Another foreign bookmaker house “Skybet” offers Moldova a coefficient of 251, Romania – 7.5, Russia -12 and Greece – 3.5. The biggest chance or the coefficient of 66 is offered to Moldova by the bookmaker house Sportingodds. The coefficient for Romania is 6, for Russia -18 and for Greece -3.5. At the same time, according to the web page www.doteurovision.com, at the rehearsals, the song “Loca” was criticized and labeled as the worse song of this year’s offer. “Arsenium is making a big mistake if he hopes to overcome the feat of the last year, when the band “Zdob si Zdub” placed 6th, even if at the press conference was clear that this opinion comes from his heart” is underlined in an article on the site. On the web page www.esctoday.com is said that at the same press conference the Moldovan representatives were asked about the song’s selection procedure. The head of the Moldovan delegation explained that at the first selection three winners were chosen and that when organizing the second round those three winners refused to participate, so finally a new song won the first place. “After these explanations the Moldovan delegation went to the hotel”, is mentioned in the article. At the Eurovision song contest, to be held on 20 May, the representatives of Moldova will present their song at the begging of the festivity after Switzerland. The Romanian performer is registered the 12th in the participation list and Greece -16th. The Russian contester will sing at first in the semifinals, which will take place on Thursday evening, May 20.