The Tskhinvali Post
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Sandro Gamsakhurdia runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 47. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match12 Aug 2026
Cup progress for Tskhinvali
A 1‑0 win over Shukura, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Squad17 Aug 2026
Aleksandre Shengelia breaks a bone — 54 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 54 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
No sign of nerves from Revaz Ananidze at 17 — 8.16
The hardest thing about being 17 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Revaz Ananidze did not need any: 8.16, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Market17 Aug 2026
Bachana Kobiashvili attracts admirers
The name of Bachana Kobiashvili has come up in conversations Tskhinvali were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Bachana Kobiashvili in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Tskhinvali this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at Tskhinvali training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Otar Ananidze 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.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
The crowd has taken to Revaz Ananidze
At 17 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Lasha Ananidze
“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
- Player ratings Kakha Janelidze stands above it all
- Match No goals between Tskhinvali and Samtredia
- Market Aleksandre Daraselia is free to find somewhere else