The Telavi Sentinel
Squad6 Mar 2028
Piruz Marakvelidze breaks a bone — 39 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 39 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings6 Mar 2028
Jaduli Iobashvili scores twice — 8.80
Two goals and a mark of 8.80 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
The dugout6 Mar 2028
Vasilije Grbović: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Telavi have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad6 Mar 2028
Piruz Marakvelidze signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Piruz Marakvelidze commits to Telavi for another 2 years.
Squad6 Mar 2028
Luisinho wants to go home
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Telavi can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Squad6 Mar 2028
Words exchanged at Telavi
Brunão 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.
Boardroom6 Mar 2028
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Telavi
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Match4 Mar 2028
Jaduli Iobashvili sends Telavi past Meshakhte Tkibuli
It finished 2‑1, and it was Jaduli Iobashvili’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Telavi.
Market6 Mar 2028
Guram Kobiashvili steps up from the Telavi academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Guram Kobiashvili 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.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Giorgi Janelidze joins the Telavi first team
- Market One of our own: Lasha Daraselia joins the Telavi first team
- Market One of our own: Revaz Ananidze joins the Telavi first team