Zurab Mikautadze

Central Midfielder - Retired
6 May 2028
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The Tskhinvali Post

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad

Tempers go at Tskhinvali

Vakhtang 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

Zurab Mikautadze pulls a muscle — 16 days out

The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 16 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.

Market

Archil Lobjanidze attracts admirers

The name of Archil Lobjanidze has come up in conversations Tskhinvali were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Vakhtang Shengelia

Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Goga Janelidze 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.

Transfer targets

Tskhinvali rebuffed over Kauã

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Criciuma have kept their man, and Tskhinvali go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Avtandil Kiteishvili

At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Match

Tskhinvali see off Dinamo Batumi

Three points for Tskhinvali, 1‑0 the final word against Dinamo Batumi in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad

Sandro Kakabadze signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Sandro Kakabadze commits to Tskhinvali for another 2 years.

In brief