The Dila Post
Squad8 Mar 2027
The knee: Guram Gamsakhurdia out for 14 days
14 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Dila lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Keké signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Keké commits to Dila for another 3 years.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Mohamed Kanté wants to go home
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Dila can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Tempers go at Dila
Tornike Morchiladze 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.
Player ratings8 Mar 2027
Nobody could get near Tornike Morchiladze
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Boardroom8 Mar 2027
4 academy graduates step up at Dila
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
The terraces8 Mar 2027
One of their own: Mohamed Kanté
He is 22 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Market8 Mar 2027
Dila promote Lasha Ananidze from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Lasha Ananidze 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
Dila promote Revaz Ananidze from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Revaz Ananidze 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.
In brief
- Market Tornike Kobiashvili steps up from the Dila academy
- Market Sandro Okriashvili steps up from the Dila academy
- Match Dila find a way past Kolkheti-1913 Poti