The Zugdidi Chronicle
Player ratings21 Jun 2027
Avtandil Tsitaishvili runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 35. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market21 Jun 2027
Terms done: Guram Arveladze is going
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Kolkheti waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Zugdidi is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Squad21 Jun 2027
A fracture rules Jaba Kashia out for 46 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Zugdidi will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match19 Jun 2027
Whatever happens, Zugdidi do not lose
11 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Market21 Jun 2027
Irakli Kashia 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 The request is on a desk at Zugdidi, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Words exchanged at Zugdidi
Sori Mané and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad21 Jun 2027
A row about effort at Zugdidi
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Warley was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The terraces21 Jun 2027
The crowd has taken to Guram Arveladze
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.
Match19 Jun 2027
Tskhinvali snatch it back from Zugdidi
A goal on 88 minutes turned three points into one and a good afternoon into an argument about game management that will run until Saturday.
In brief
- Squad Revaz Kobiashvili out for 14 days
- Loan watch Shota Janelidze wants to come home
- Player ratings Nobody on the pitch touched Guram Arveladze