Giorgi Kiknadze

Giorgi Kiknadze ( Georgian გიორგი კიკნაძე ; born April 26, 1976 in Tbilisi ) is a former Georgian soccer player and current soccer coach .

Kiknadze joined the professional Dinamo Tbilisi team at the age of 17 and won his country's championship five times and the cup four times with the club between 1994 and 1998 . After a season at Torpedo Kutaisi , the defensive midfielder moved to Samsunspor in Turkey in autumn 1999 . Here, however, he was unable to gain a foothold. He only played four games in the Turkish Süper Lig . Even at his next station, SC Freiburg , he was unable to assert himself. Although he was under contract with the Breisgauer between 2000 and 2003, he was not used in any competitive game in the first team. Kiknadze returned to Georgia and let his club career end with Lokomotive Tbilisi and Spartak Tbilisi .

He made his debut for the Georgian national team on December 5, 1996 in Lebanon . In the 2: 4 defeat of his team, he contributed the only goal of his career for his country to the interim 2-0 lead. Overall, Kiknadze has been called up to the national team ten times.

He started working as a trainer at the age of thirty. In 2006 he took over the club Olimpi Rustawi , which had just been formed from a merger of two clubs, and started the season with a series of eight clean sheets. In the course of the season negotiations about an early contract extension failed, so that Kiknadze left the club before the end of the championship. After a brief engagement with Torpedo Kutaisi, he became the head coach of Lokomotive Tbilisi in April 2007.

Kiknadze is an uncle of the soccer player Levan Qenia .

Web links

• Giorgi Kiknadze on weltfussball.de