The Torpedo Kutaisi Courier
Squad8 Mar 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Felipe Pires
16 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Torpedo Kutaisi lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings8 Mar 2027
Giorgi Arabidze scores twice — 8.78
Two goals and a mark of 8.78 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Níger Vega stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Níger Vega and Torpedo Kutaisi agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Tempers go at Torpedo Kutaisi
Giorgi Arabidze 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.
Boardroom8 Mar 2027
Graduation day at Torpedo Kutaisi
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Match6 Mar 2027
Whatever happens, Torpedo Kutaisi do not lose
6 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.
Player ratings8 Mar 2027
Nobody could get near Vladimer Mamuchashvili
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market8 Mar 2027
Torpedo Kutaisi promote Khvicha Tsitaishvili from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Khvicha 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.
Market8 Mar 2027
One of our own: Dato Lobjanidze joins the Torpedo Kutaisi first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Dato Lobjanidze is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market Aleksandre Kvaratskhelia steps up from the Torpedo Kutaisi academy
- Market Giorgi Kvaratskhelia steps up from the Torpedo Kutaisi academy
- Squad Mateo Itrak gets it from the manager