Archil Daraselia

Central Midfielder - Kolkheti
13 Sep 2026
Sunday
Process

Marked for Archil Daraselia

5 Edition

The Kolkheti Sentinel

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Avtandil Kvaratskhelia

33 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Kolkheti lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market

Archil Daraselia puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Kolkheti, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

Shukura come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Kolkheti did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad

Tempers go at Kolkheti

Irakli Shengelia was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad

Dato Shengelia gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Squad

Irakli Mikautadze falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

In brief

Back issues
2 Edition

The Kolkheti Sentinel

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Both of them Zurab Kashia's — 8.74

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.74, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Market

Aleksandre Kvilitaia hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Kolkheti can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Kolkheti say no — this time

The offer from Lokomotivi for Aleksandre Kvaratskhelia was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad

Archil Zivzivadze signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Archil Zivzivadze commits to Kolkheti for another 3 years.

Squad

Tempers go at Kolkheti

Archil Zivzivadze was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad

Words at Kolkheti training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Irakli Shengelia is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Match

Kolkheti get the job done against Merani

A 2‑1 win over Merani, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Squad

No hiding place for Irakli Shengelia

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Irakli Shengelia, and the manager let it.

Market

Archil Daraselia told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Archil Daraselia has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Kolkheti.

In brief