Otar Kashia

Striker - Shukura U18
21 May 2027
Friday
Process

Marked for Otar Kashia

7 Edition

The Shukura Herald

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Transfer targets

Temur Shengelia will not be coming to Shukura

Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Zugdidi is saying, and nobody at Shukura is enjoying the guessing.

Match

Shukura come up short against Dila

Dila left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Market

Shukura promote Archil Tsitaishvili from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Archil Tsitaishvili has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market

Irakli Ananidze steps up from the Shukura academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Irakli Ananidze has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Player ratings

Minago Khozrevanidze was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 17. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Squad

Tempers go at Shukura

Giorgi Kavtaradze 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.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 1‑2 Goga Kvilitaia left the room before anybody could ask which.

Squad

Words at Shukura training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Rezo Meskhidze 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 dugout

Luka Katamadze 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

Back issues
2 Edition

The Shukura Herald

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Player ratings

A brace, and Luka Nemsadze takes the afternoon — 8.95

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Luka Nemsadze provided it, and the 8.95 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Match

Shukura strike at the death to beat Merani

There were 87 minutes on the clock and Merani had all but banked the point. Football rarely reads the room, and Shukura did not stop to explain themselves.

Transfer targets

Temur Shengelia due for a Shukura medical

Everything agreed with Zugdidi, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Transfer targets

Amiran Tkeshelashvili turns down Shukura

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: another club keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Transfer targets

Shukura make their move for Oto Goshadze

$190.0K on the table at Torpedo Kutaisi. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Squad

A falling-out at Shukura

Giorgi Kavtaradze and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Transfer targets

Dila tell Shukura: Luka Sanikidze is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Match

Shukura get the job done against Merani

A 2‑1 win over Merani, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

The terraces

Shukura supporters have found a favourite in Irakli Giritiladze

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Irakli Giritiladze has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

In brief