Davit Gamsakhurdia

Right Back - Zugdidi
21 Oct 2027
Thursday
Process

Marked for Davit Gamsakhurdia

64 Edition

The Zugdidi Chronicle

18 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Davit Gamsakhurdia breaks a bone — 25 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 25 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Goga Gvelesiani 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.

Squad

Zurab Kakabadze 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.

Squad

A muscle injury and 15 days out for Beka Beridze

The most common injury in the game and the most rushed back from. Zugdidi will quote 15 days and will be careful with it, because the second one is always worse than the first.

Squad

Words at Zugdidi training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Beka Beridze 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.

Market

Zurab Kakabadze linked with a move away

The name of Zurab Kakabadze keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Zugdidi say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief

Back issues
63 Edition

The Zugdidi Chronicle

11 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Davit Gamsakhurdia breaks a bone — 32 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 32 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Shota Daraselia stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Shota Daraselia and Zugdidi agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

The dugout

Aleksandre Shengelia 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

31 Edition

The Zugdidi Chronicle

1 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Otar Kobiashvili

21 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Zugdidi lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

Lasha Kiteishvili 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Zugdidi

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Beka Beridze was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

In brief

3 Edition

The Zugdidi Chronicle

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Tornike Mchedlidze keeps Zugdidi in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 9 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Match

The small margins put Zugdidi out

Out, 0‑4 to Torpedo Kutaisi, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.

Market

Dinamo Tbilisi 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.

Player ratings

Bachana Okriashvili beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 28. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

The terraces

A cup embarrassment at Torpedo Kutaisi follows Zugdidi home

0-4. Going out of a cup is one afternoon; going out like that is a week of phone-ins, and the manager will hear every one of them.

Market

Zurab Kakabadze attracts admirers

The name of Zurab Kakabadze has come up in conversations Zugdidi were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Squad

Words exchanged at Zugdidi

Sergey Rodionov 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.

The dugout

No hiding place for Bachana Okriashvili

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Bachana Okriashvili, and the manager let it.

Squad

A row about effort at Zugdidi

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Vakhtang Daraselia was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

In brief