Rati Tsinamdzgvrishvili

Rati Tsinamdzghvrishvili (Georgian: რატი წინამძღვრიშვილი, born 22 March 1988) is a former Georgian football player.

Rati Tsinamdzghvrishvili
Personal information
Full name Rati Tsinamdzghvrishvili
Date of birth (1988-03-22) 22 March 1988
Place of birth Tbilisi, Soviet Union
Height 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)
Position(s) Forward
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2003–2009 Ameri Tbilisi 75 (27)
2004–2006 → Ameri-2 Tbilisi 39 (37)
2009–2013 Zestaponi 76 (23)
2013–2014 Chikhura Sachkhere 15 (2)
2014 Sasco Tbilisi 2 (0)
2014–2015 Sapovnela Terjola 9 (1)
2015 Chiatura 10 (1)
National team
2003–2004 Georgia U-17 5 (3)
2004–2006 Georgia U-19 13 (11)
2006–2007 Georgia U-21 7 (2)
2005–2006 Georgia 3 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 14 April 2012

Career

He made his international debut for the Georgia national football team at the age of 17.

In 2006, he won the Georgian Cup with FC Ameri Tbilisi in the final of which he scored a beautiful header against FC Zestafoni.

Personal life

His last name, Tsinamdzghvrishvili, which takes 18 letters to spell in English and contains 13 consonants, has been found by most foreigners to be unpronounceable. So in most games, his name on the back of his shirt normally only reads Rati (his first name) instead of Tsinamdzghvrishvili, which would take two to three separate lines of readable-sized letters on the back of a football shirt.

Tsinamdzghvrishvili is an old Georgian noble name, of which Rati is a direct descendant. His family and grandfather, Ilia Tsinamdzghvrishvili, still live in the village of Tsinamdzghvriantkari (named after the Tsinamdzghvrishvilis) in the hills near the Georgian capital Tbilisi. This is where Rati spent a lot of his childhood.

His grandfather, Ilia, who is a retired PE teacher, and his uncle, Mamuka Tsinamdzghvrishvili, a successful Georgian wrestler, were the main influences in Rati's sporting upbringing.


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