Kahaber Tskhadadze is a Georgian football player, head coach of FC Kairat. Biography, sports career

Kakhaber Tskhadadze is one of the brightest Georgian football players at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries. His name is known to fans of the leather ball not only in his native Georgia, but also in Europe. After all, he managed to play in Sweden, Germany and England, for the formidable "Manchester City".

Childhood footballer

Kakhaber Tskhadadze was born in 1968 in the town of Rustavi, not far from Tbilisi. Football started to engage, as soon as he turned 8 years old, in the local team "Arisha". The first mentors of the young Kakhaber were Murman Gogoladze and Tomaz Dodashvili. They have instilled in the future defender the main qualities - purposefulness, the ability to make quick decisions on the field.

Because of the heavy workload in the sports section, Kahaber paid little attention to his studies. This is not surprising: after the end of the 8th grade he was declared for the youth team of his town in the 2nd division of the championship of the Georgian SSR.

Carier start

The first professional club Tskhadadze was the local "Metallurg" from the city of Rustavi, then speaking in the 2 nd league of the union championship. For two seasons he spent 39 games in the team, becoming one of the pillars of defense.

Soon after that, a logical invitation to the leading Georgian club "Dynamo" (Tbilisi) followed. In the capital's team, Kahaber Tskhadadze made his debut in 1988 in the highest league of the USSR championship in football. At that time, "Dynamo" experienced not the best of times and with great difficulty were able to keep a place in the elite. Losing 16 games out of 30, "Dynamo" (Tbilisi) finished the season in 14th place. The next season was more successful, Tskhadadze was fixed in the base, and his "Dynamo" no longer struggled for survival, finishing in 11th place. For two seasons in the capital club Kahaber had 41 matches, marking 1 scored the ball.

At the end of 1989, Tskhadadze achieved another peak - a challenge to the youth national team of the USSR, which at that time was headed by Vladimir Radionov.

Tskhadadze in "Spartacus"

In times of perestroika, the career of Tskhadadze began to change dramatically. In 1991, he tried himself in the championship of Sweden in the team "Sundsvall" - a strong middle of the first Scandinavian league. Here he spent six months, scoring 2 goals in 11 games.

At this time, Kakhaber Tskhadadze was on the pencil of the coaches of the national team, first of all Anatoly Byshovets, who said: "If you want to play for Euro, go to the team more seriously." Despite the fact that Tskhadadze was already playing for the Georgian national team, he followed the advice of a senior comrade. First went to the viewing in "Benfica". However, he came with an injury, which did not allow himself to be fully demonstrated. Therefore, Kahaber agreed to go to Moscow's "Spartak".

In 1992 he spent only 7 matches for the red and white, having completed the title of the champion of Russia, and in the same season moved to the Moscow "Dynamo". And here his career was short-lived: after spending 12 matches in the blue and white, he went to play in Europe.

Euro-92

In 1992, Tskhadadze went to the European Championships in Sweden as part of the CIS team. The national team in the first match missed the victory over the Germans. The score in the middle of the second half was opened by Igor Dobrovolsky with a penalty, Germany recouped only in the 89th minute. And the second meeting - with the Netherlands national team - ended in a draw, this time 0-0. Georgian defender for these matches did not hit, making his debut only in the last game of the group stage with the Scots. In case of victory, the team almost guaranteed a way out of the group.

Tskhadadze came out in the first team, but to establish a well-coordinated game in the defense that night was not possible. Already by the 16th minute the CIS team lost with the score 0: 2. Do not fold things and in the attack. In the last desyatiminutke Scots scored a goal from the penalty spot, putting an end to the defeat.

German Period

In 1993, the Georgian football player moved to the Bundesliga, at Eintracht Frankfurt. Half a season spent in the first team with almost no substitutions, becoming a prominent figure on the field. In many ways, thanks to him, the club won bronze medals in the 1992/93 season, losing only to Bayern and Werder Bremen.

In the UEFA Cup, in the first round, the former club "Tskhadadze" - the Moscow "Dynamo" - went to rivals "Eintracht". In the Russian capital, the German club arranged a white-blue smashing defeat - 0: 6. In Germany, "Dynamo" won 2: 1, but this could not change anything.

In that draw, "Eintracht" reached the quarter finals, where only in the series of post-match penalties lost to the Austrian "Salzburg".

True, the star of Eintracht soon rolled up. Two years later the team left the Bundesliga, a year later Tskhadadze returned to Russia.

Again in Russia

In 1997 he became a player of the Vladikavkaz "Alania". The team was ambitious, last year won silver medals. However, after the team appeared Kahaber Tskhadadze, "Alania" did not increase. The season was not easy. The team no longer competed for medals, but dangled in the middle of the standings.

The season for "Alania" turned out to be one of the most uncompromising, out of 34 matches only 4 teams finished in a draw. True, of the remaining 30 games, 16 were lost, so the final table managed to take only 10th place. About the vouchers in the European Cups to dream that year did not have to.

Tskhadadze spent 17 games for Alania, marking with one goal scored.

In Foggy Albion

In late 1997, Tskhadadze signed a contract with the English "Manchester City". At that time one of the current grandees of the Premier League stars from the sky did not suffice, vegetating in Championships (the second most important football tournament in England). And in 1998 the team flew to the Second Division.

The team was going through hard financial times, as the old-timers remember, the situation was so bad that only veterans and free agents who could come to play for free could sign.

The situation changed with the arrival of the new president David Bernstein, the club quickly returned to the Championship. As a result, in England Tskhadadze spent 3 seasons, leaving the team only in 2000. True, during this time on the field Kahaber was a rare guest, although for the defender often scored. In 12 games, he scored twice.

Home

From England, Tskhadadze went to his historic homeland - to Georgia. In 2000 he signed a contract with the team "Lokomotiv" (Tbilisi). Together with the team, Tskhadadze experienced a golden period in the history of the club. In the 2001/02 season, Lokomotiv managed to take the second place. This result is still the highest achievement of the club in the championship of Georgia. In addition, two of the three victories in the Georgian Cup, the "railroad", were also won by Tskhadadze, in 2000 and 2002.

It is worth noting that for 7 years, from 1991 to 1998, Tskhadadze was regularly called to the national team of Georgia. Having completed 25 matches and scoring 1 goal. He was the first captain in the history of the national team, retaining an honorable bandage throughout most of his career.

In the football life of Tskhadadze, there were a lot of injuries, including very serious ones - a broken leg, a rupture of knee ligaments. Despite all this, he finished his career only in 36 years. A solid age for the defender. His last club was Makhachkala "Anji". The two seasons that the team played in the First Division, Tskhadadze was the main defense player. In 2004, in the "Anji" he took 8th place in the championship of the Football National League.

At the coaching post

After completing his professional football career in 2004, Tskhadadze Kahaber Jumberovich concentrated on coaching. It is worth noting that as a mentor, he had already tried himself in the times when he played for the Tbilisi "Locomotive". In 2005, he became the head coach of "Dinamo" (Tbilisi).

Career in the new field was extremely successful. Together with "Dynamo" Tskhadadze became the champion of Georgia in the 2004/05 season. In the European competition in the first round it was possible to pass the Estonian "Levadia", but then the Danish "Brondby" became an insurmountable obstacle. The Tbilisi team lost with a total score of 1: 5.

The following year Tskhadadze headed a modest "Zioni" from the town of Bolnisi. And immediately led the club to the first and so far the only gold of the championship. After winning the second championship of Georgia, Tskhadadze became the best coach of the season.

True, the Champions League also managed to reach only the second round of qualification. In the first "Zion" won FC "Baku (2: 0, 0: 1), and in the second lost to the Bulgarian" Levski "(0: 2, 0: 2).

The work of Tskhadadze was often hampered by a quick temper. In the "Sion" he first earned a five-match suspension for his inconsistency in the "golden" season, and in the second round of the next championship, he was again disqualified for five meetings, and then completely suspended from coaching for a year by a decision of the Disciplinary Committee. Fighting character Georgian coach showed in European competition, managed to fight in the Champions League match with the head coach of FC "Baku", after which he was removed to the stands.

From Georgia, Tskhadadze moved to Azerbaijan. First he headed the capital's "Standard", then 5 years coached "Inter". With the last team once won the championship of the country.

In March 2015, he headed the national team of Georgia, taking part in qualifying matches for Euro 2016. Under his leadership, the team held 6 meetings, 4 of which lost. An active in this period, the team can bring victories over Scotland (1: 0) and Gibraltar (4: 0). In the qualifying tournament the Georgians occupied only the 5th place in their group.

To the East

In April 2016, a new page in the coaching career of Tskhadadze opened, he headed FC "Kairat". At the same time, one of the loudest acquisitions took place - the team was replaced by Andrei Arshavin.

In the championship of FC "Kairat" led a stubborn struggle for the first place with "Astana", but lost at the finish of the championship of 7 points and took only second place.

At the same time, the coach of "Kairat" held a number of successful matches in the European League with the team. The club started from the first qualifying round. First, in a stubborn two-legged match, he defeated the Albanian "Teuta" (1: 0, 5: 0). In the second round, he fought Tel-Aviv "Maccabi". In the first match thanks to Arshavin's goal everything went to the minimum victory for Kazakhstan, but the Israeli club played at the second minute of the compensated time. In the return meeting on the goal Ben-Khaim in the opening of the match, "Kairat" answered with a goal in the 65th minute. The ball was recorded at the expense of the Ivorian legionary Gerard Gow. Everything went to extra time, but the Israelis were able to snatch victory. In the 86th minute, the decisive ball was scored by Alberman.

Tskhadadze vividly showed himself as a coach of "Kairat" and hopes to conduct many more successful matches at the head of this team.