Scots won’t underestimate Georgia

The Scots suffered defeat away from home in their last outing to the Georgians and will be aiming to make amends when they meet again in Paisley. 

Georgian Football’s Grounds for Concern

If the announcement that the 2015 UEFA Super Cup is to be held in Tbilisi’s Mikheil Meskhi stadium (above) raised a few eyebrows across Europe, in Georgia itself it left people well and truly stunned. Had a Georgian club managed to reach the group stages of a UEFA competition this year, the stadium, still popularly known as ‘Lokomotivi’, would not have met the criteria necessary for staging a game at that level, let alone a global showpiece event.Currently, only the ‘Dinamo Arena’ – the country’s largest sports venue – has a UEFA category 4 status to its name. Some were left wondering whether Monsieur Platini was naive enough to be seduced by a three minute presentation clip concocted by computer wizards at the Georgian Football Federation (GFF), which had a fantasy dimension beyond that of a Star Trek episode. In truth, it was a gesture of faith, optimism and good will, on a par with Ukraine having been chosen as co-hosts for Euro 2012. One is left to hope for a similarly happy ending to this episode. There is still time. 

UEFA U19 Talent: Avto Endeladze

Georgian midfielder was chosen between the best 10 players of the Euro U19 Lithuania 2013. 

Despite the unexpected results of the Georgian National Team U19 in the Final Stage of the EURO 2013, some of the players caught the attention of talent hunters; one of them was clearly the midfielder Avto Endeladze, who shined with solid performances and even managed to score once against Turkey.

Kakha Kaladze – Defender or Pretender?

Georgian football was left to ponder life without Kakha Kaladze, after its medal-laden former captain said farewell to the sport on May 31 with a spectacular, sometimes surreal, exhibition match in Tbilisi, the Georgian capital.