The Samtredia Chronicle
Squad19 Oct 2026
The step up is real for Giorgi Peradze
At 19 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Samtredia
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Tato Zhividze was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Régis is not the player he was
It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph a local paper has to write. 37 years old, 3 points down on where he was, and a body that has started charging interest on a career.
In brief
- The dugout Eric Barrios has become a man the manager trusts