Otar Kakabadze

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20 Sep 2026
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Marked for Otar Kakabadze

7 Edition

The Kolkheti Sentinel

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Shota Kakabadze damages knee ligaments — 15 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 15 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Market

Davit Chakvetadze asks to leave Kolkheti

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad

Words at Kolkheti training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Davit Jikia 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.

Squad

Irakli Daraselia 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.

Player ratings

Irakli Daraselia leaves them behind him

Shots: 8. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.

Loan watch

Shota Kiteishvili counts the days

“I watch every Kolkheti game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Tskhinvali runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.

Squad

A promise honoured for Avtandil Gvelesiani

It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Kolkheti told Avtandil Gvelesiani something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.

Match

Kolkheti and Dila cancel each other out

Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Dila came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.

Player ratings

A day to forget for Otar Kakabadze

Marked 5.59, and generously at that. Nothing came off, and by the end the crowd had stopped expecting it to.

In brief

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6 Edition

The Kolkheti Sentinel

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Shota Kakabadze damages knee ligaments — 22 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 22 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Player ratings

Both of them Davit Jikia's — 8.83

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.83, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Market

Otar Kakabadze 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.

Match

Kolkheti make it 3 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Kolkheti have 3 straight wins of it.

Match

Davit Jikia the difference as Kolkheti beat Shukura

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Davit Jikia. 3‑1 against Shukura, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Squad

Davit Jikia 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.

Squad

Goga Okriashvili 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.

Match

Davit Jikia at the heart of a fast Kolkheti start

2 goals inside twenty minutes with Davit Jikia in the middle of it, and Shukura unable to get near the ball long enough to change anything. Some matches are won before the first drink.

Player ratings

Irakli Daraselia was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.42. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

In brief