The Zugdidi Chronicle
Squad24 Sep 2029
Davit Mchedlidze breaks a bone — 88 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 88 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings24 Sep 2029
Lasha Okriashvili was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 33. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Match24 Sep 2029
The season ends: position 10 for Zugdidi
The last league game has been played and the table has stopped moving: 33 points. The summer begins on Monday, and so does the argument about what it all meant.
Squad24 Sep 2029
Nika Kvaratskhelia keeps Zugdidi in it on his own
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
The dugout24 Sep 2029
news_h_frozen_out_of_the_side
news_b_frozen_out_of_the_side
Squad24 Sep 2029
Tempers go at Zugdidi
Nika Kvaratskhelia 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.
Squad24 Sep 2029
Zugdidi count the cost of losing Levan Janelidze
15 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Match22 Sep 2029
Zugdidi caught on 89 minutes
The board was up, the win was priced in, and then Lokomotivi scored. There is no worse minute to concede in and the ground emptied in the silence that follows one.
The dugout24 Sep 2029
The manager makes an example of Revaz Daraselia
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
In brief
- Match Honours even between Zugdidi and Lokomotivi
- The dugout Giorgi Gamsakhurdia: “We have to be better”
- Market The Revaz Lobjanidze question follows Zugdidi around