Giorgi Kinkladse

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Giorgi Kinkladse
Georgi Kinkladze.jpg
Giorgi Kinkladse in 2005
Personnel
birthday July 6, 1973
place of birth Tbilisi ,  Georgian SSR , Soviet Union
size 173 cm
position midfield player
Juniors
Years station
1979-1989 Dinamo Tbilisi
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1990-1992 Mretebi Tbilisi 80 (18)
1992-1995 Dinamo Tbilisi 65 (41)
1994 →  1. FC Saarbrücken  (loan) 11 0(0)
1994 →  Boca Juniors  (loan) 3 0(0)
1995-1998 Manchester City 106 (20)
1998-1999 Ajax Amsterdam 12 0(0)
1999-2000 →  Derby County  (loan) 17 0(1)
2000-2003 Derby County 74 0(6)
2004-2005 Anorthosis Famagusta 22 0(2)
2005-2006 Rubin Kazan 13 0(2)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1992-2005 Georgia 56 0(9)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2011– Anorthosis Famagusta (team manager)
1 Only league games are given.

Giorgi Kinkladse ( Georgian გიორგი ქინქლაძე ; born July 6, 1973 in Tbilisi , Georgian SSR , Soviet Union ) is a former Georgian football player .

Private life

Giorgi Kinkladse grew up in the Didube-Tschugureti district of Tbilisi in the north of the city. There he lived with his father, the engineer Robinson and his mother, the teacher Khatuna and his older sister. At the age of six, his father registered him at the youth school of record champions Dinamo Tbilisi . Giorgi's mother Khatuna, on the other hand, did not agree and instead taught her son Mtiuluri , a Georgian ballet dance. In the youth team of Dinamo Tbilisi, he played together with his future teammate Schota Arweladze .

In 2001 he married Louise Tai from Manchester. This was then a member of the Orthodox Church and baptized in Tbilisi under her new name Mariam. In October 2001 Giorgi and Mariam Kinkladse became parents of their son Saba.

Club career

Career start

In 1989, a friend of the family arranged a move to Mretebi Tbilisi , the first club in the Soviet Union to have full professional status. Giorgi Kinkladse was able to collect his first professional assignments there at the age of 16. After two years it was bought back by the large city club Dinamo Tbilisi . In 1992 and 1993 he won the double with the club. Due to the ongoing unrest in Georgia, Dinamo Tbilisi management have been forced to move many players to a safer environment. In the course of this, Kinkladse was loaned to the German second division club 1. FC Saarbrücken in 1994 . He made his debut in the 2nd Bundesliga on March 4, 1994 in a 2-2 draw against Tennis Borussia Berlin . In the meantime, the only 20-year-old was voted Georgia's Footballer of the Year for 1993 . Troubles continued after returning to his home country and club president Merad Jordania was concerned about letting Kinkladse play and train in the midst of these surroundings. The midfielder was therefore offered to the Spanish club Atlético Madrid , but received no contract there. The Georgian then trained with Real Madrid's reserve and was discovered by the top Argentine club Boca Juniors . During the loan period of only one month, Giorgi Kinkladse met his idol Diego Maradona , but did not get a permanent contract in Argentina, as his position was already well filled with Alberto Márcico .

Manchester City

After again numerous good performances at Dinamo Tbilisi , the English club Manchester City and its President Francis Lee became aware of the Georgian midfielder and secured a kind of right of first refusal. In 1995 Kinkladse won the double again with Tbilisi, before signing a contract with Manchester City on July 15 of the same year. After initial difficulties in obtaining a work permit, he made his debut on August 19, 1995 in the Premier League game against Tottenham Hotspur . But the 1995/96 season was not going to be a good season for Manchester. In the first three months, the club did not win a single game. Kinkladse could speak very little English and lived in a hotel. It was only when his mother moved to Manchester to create a familiar environment for the 22 year old that he overcame his homesickness. He was touted by the media as the team's star player and confirmed this again and again with good performances and spectacular goals. Nevertheless, Manchester should be relegated at the end of the season, which in turn led to numerous transfer rumors. But Kinkladse, who was voted Manchester's Player of the Season after the season, decided against a move and stayed with his club. Also in the following season 1996/97 Manchester City could hardly record any successes and ended up only 14th in the second division. Kinkladse played under five different coaches. Despite the lack of success, the midfielder was again Georgian Footballer of the Year in 1996 and at the end of the season again triggered numerous speculations. As in the previous year, he was player of the season at Manchester and signed another contract with higher wages with his club. But Manchester's nosedive continued again in the 1997/98 season. After Joe Royle was introduced as the new coach, problems began for Kinkladse too. The new coach described his midfield star as an unaffordable luxury in the relegation battle. For the first time, a trainer sharply criticized the Georgian, who has long enjoyed cult status with fans, and at times did not even use him. In 2005, Joe Royle stated in his autobiography that Kinkladse was the only positive thing for the fans during this period, but a huge negative for himself. At the end of the season, Manchester City was relegated to the third division and the Georgian left his club after three years.

Ajax Amsterdam

In 1998 Giorgi Kinkladse was signed by the Dutch club Ajax Amsterdam , which was one of the best European clubs in the mid-1990s. Originally he was intended to replace Jari Litmanen , but his move to FC Barcelona was to be postponed by a year. As a result, Kinkladse played on the unfamiliar left wing. On August 23, 1998, he was on the pitch for the first time in the 2-0 win over Willem II Tilburg , but was little noticed. After coach Morten Olsen was replaced by Jan Wouters , the Georgian lost his place in the team. The new replacement for Litmanen was Richard Knopper. Kinkladse later claimed that he had never had a real chance under coach Wouters and quickly looked around for a new club. Many interested English clubs were discouraged from changing due to the lack of a work permit. For the following season, the Georgian was not even assigned a jersey number and he trained with the reserve team.

Derby County

In late 1999 he was loaned from the English first division club Derby County . A separate committee granted him a special work permit based on his previous work in English football. Against Arsenal , he came as a substitute on November 28, 1999 for the first time. At the end of the season he just reached relegation with Derby and was permanently committed for the future. Due to numerous injuries, Kinkladse could not keep his form in the following season and rarely convinced with good performances. At the end of the season Derby again barely managed to stay in the Premier League. When in the course of the 2001/02 season Colin Todd was introduced as the new coach, Kinkladse initially came to no more use. The Georgian therefore consulted his lawyer and arranged a meeting with Todd to discuss the exclusion from the first team. However, the conversation was unsuccessful and the midfielder was already looking for a new club. But before Kinkladse could change, Todd was dismissed and replaced by John Gregory . By the end of the season he was again a regular player, but could no longer prevent Derby County's relegation to the second division. In addition, the club had accumulated a large mountain of debt and was now forced to sell the top earners. But Kinkladse had an ongoing contract and was not willing to change. Derby County, however, tried to continue to trigger his contract and let him only train with the reserve, which is why the midfielder missed the first games of the 2002/03 season. On September 30, 2002 he was called back to the first team. At the beginning of 2003, Derby County was so financially troubled that the players did not receive a salary for three months. At the end of the season, Kinkladse was voted Player of the Year by fans. For the following season he was offered a new contract with significantly reduced salaries by the club's management, but Kinkladse declined and left the club.

End of career

After almost a year and a half without a club, Giorgi Kinkladse came into contact with his former national team colleague Temur Kezbaia in October 2004 . He was the player-coach at Anorthosis Famagusta in Cyprus. On November 21, 2004, he played for the first time in the game against record champions APOEL Nicosia and scored his first goal. At the end of the season he and his team won the championship and thus his first title in ten years. In the following UEFA Champions League 2005/06 , the club lost to the Scottish club Glasgow Rangers in the third qualifying round.

Due to his good performance on the international stage, Gurban Berdiýew , manager of the Russian club Rubin Kazan , became aware of the Georgian. In August 2005 he signed a contract with the Russians until the end of the season. Just one day after signing, Kinkladse played a full 90 minutes in a 1-0 win against FK Rostov and set up Vitālijs Astafjevs' goal with a corner kick. By the end of the year and season, he scored two goals in nine games and prepared seven. The midfielder signed another one-year contract for the 2006 season. In the first game of this season, an old injury occurred again and Kinkladse had to take a few months off. Further injuries followed, which ultimately forced the Georgian to retire and made another contract extension with Rubin Kazan impossible.

National team

On September 17, 1992, Giorgi Kinkladse made his debut at the age of 19 in the dress of the national soccer team of Georgia in the game against Azerbaijan . This was Georgia’s fourth international match since it declared independence. During his time at Ajax Amsterdam , the midfielder briefly lost his regular place due to the lack of match practice in the club.

successes

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personal data
SURNAME Kinkladse, Giorgi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES ქინქლაძე, გიორგი (Georgian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Georgian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Tbilisi , Georgian SSR, Soviet Union