Beka Ananidze

Goalkeeper - Free Agent
5 Dec 2027
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Marked for Beka Ananidze

29 Edition

The Zugdidi Chronicle

15 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad15 Feb 2027

Beka Qazaishvili damages knee ligaments — 31 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 31 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.

Match15 Feb 2027

Zugdidi up to position 2

19 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.

Squad15 Feb 2027

Tempers go at Zugdidi

Lasha Gvelesiani 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.

In brief

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26 Edition

The Zugdidi Chronicle

25 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market25 Jan 2027

The unthinkable, invoiced: Davit Chakvetadze sold

Guria arrived with $12.0K and left with the best player in the building. The board will call it business; the queue at the ticket office will use other words.

The terraces25 Jan 2027

Zugdidi sell a favourite for $12.0K

The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Davit Chakvetadze was one of the reasons people came, and $12.0K does not replace that by itself.

Market25 Jan 2027

Beka Ananidze 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 The request is on a desk at Zugdidi, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad25 Jan 2027

Jaba Kashia 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 Zugdidi this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad25 Jan 2027

Zurab Shengelia 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.

Squad25 Jan 2027

Lasha Gvelesiani has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Zugdidi will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

In brief

25 Edition

The Zugdidi Chronicle

18 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match18 Jan 2027

Zugdidi refuse to drop out of the race

Position 2, 19 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.

Squad18 Jan 2027

A fracture rules Saba Daraselia out for 15 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.

Market18 Jan 2027

Sapovnela come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Zugdidi did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market18 Jan 2027

Eyes on Goga Okriashvili again

The phone has started ringing about Goga Okriashvili again, and this time the name on the line is Dila. Zugdidi are listening politely and promising nothing.

Squad18 Jan 2027

Giorgi Gvelesiani 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.

Squad18 Jan 2027

Lasha Zivzivadze 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.

In brief

23 Edition

The Zugdidi Chronicle

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad4 Jan 2027

A fracture rules Saba Daraselia out for 29 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.

Market4 Jan 2027

Ruslan Zubkov asks to leave Zugdidi

“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.

Market4 Jan 2027

Eyes on Dato Shengelia again

The phone has started ringing about Dato Shengelia again, and this time the name on the line is Al-Wehda. Zugdidi are listening politely and promising nothing.

Market4 Jan 2027

Zugdidi turn down Guria for Aleksandre Tsitaishvili

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad4 Jan 2027

Tempers go at Zugdidi

Lasha Gvelesiani 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.

Squad4 Jan 2027

Words at Zugdidi training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Zurab Shengelia 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.

In brief