Giorgi Zinzadze
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| Player information | ||
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| birthday | February 7, 1986 | |
| place of birth | Tbilisi, Soviet Union | |
| size | 192 cm | |
| position |
Point Guard / Shooting Guard |
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| Club information | ||
| society | BK Budiwelnik Kiev | |
| league | Basketball Super League Ukraine | |
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2001–2002 Akademiesportklub Tbilisi 2002–2003 Basco Batumi 2003–2004 PBK CSKA Moscow 2004–2005 ZSK WWS Samara 2005 Ural Great Perm 2005–2006 MBK Dynamo Moscow 2006–2009 Tartu Rock 2009 AS Trikala 2000 2009–2010 BK Donetsk 2010 Trefl Sopot 2010 –2011 Tartu Rock 2012 Olimpi Tbilisi 2012–2013 BK Budiwelnik Kiev Since 2013 BK Donetsk.svg){kind=small}      
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| Since 2005 | Georgia | |
Giorgi Zinzadze ( Georgian გიორგი ცინცაძე ; born February 7, 1986 in Tbilisi , Georgian SSR ) is a Georgian basketball player . Zinzadze made his debut as a teenager in the top Georgian league and moved to Russia in 2003 , initially to the Russian champions PBK ZSKA in Moscow . With MBK Dynamo he won the ULEB Cup in 2006 . After three seasons at the Tartu University affiliated club Tartu Rock in Estonia , he was active in the 2009/10 season for three clubs in Greece , Ukraine and Poland . After another season at Tartu Rock in the 2010/11 season he was active for the Georgian national basketball team at the 2011 European Championship finals , where he tore a cruciate ligament and paused for several months.
Similar to his compatriot Manutschar Markoishvili , who was born in Tbilisi in the same year , Zinzadze made his debut as a youth in the top Georgian league and was signed by the master Basco Batumi in 2002. For the first time after four championships in a row, they lost in 2003 to the championship at BK Dinamo Tbilisi . For the 2003/04 season Zinzadze was then signed by the Russian champions PBK ZSKA Moscow. In the ULEB Euroleague 2003/04 , Zinzadse, who had just turned 18, was used for 10 minutes in a game in a clear 93-69 away win at Olympiacos . In the end, in addition to the Russian championship and second place in the Russian cup competition, it was enough for third place in the top European division. For the 2004/05 season he moved to Samara to the basketball department of ZSK WWS , but played in the Russian championship play-offs for Ural Great from Perm , in which he was eliminated in the quarter-finals against his ex-club CSKA. In the 2005/06 season he played again in Moscow, this time for runner-up MBK Dynamo. With this club he won the second most important European competition ULEB Cup 2005/06 under coach Dušan Ivković , but as a 20-year-old he was only used in six games and in the final four tournament only a few seconds in the semifinals. In the Russian championship they were not very successful and were eliminated in the quarter-finals.
In 2006 he moved to Estonian runner-up Tartu Rock, with whom he won the Estonian championship against BC Kalev in 2007 and 2008 and lost the cup final against this club. In the 2007/08 season they moved to the European level after a victory in the quarter-final series over their ex-club Ural Great in the Final Four tournament of the FIBA EuroCup , where they were also in the game after a narrow defeat against the eventual title holder BK Barons Rīga for third place hosts Proteas AEL lost. Zinzadse had already been a participant in the last All Star Games in this competition at the same location in Limassol, Cyprus a month earlier . In the 2008/09 season he was supported by his fellow compatriot Viktor Sanikidze at Tartu Rock , but this time he lost to competitor BC Kalev in the championship final series and was eliminated in the preliminary round of the FIBA EuroCup, now known as the EuroChallenge. For this they reached the Final Four of the Baltic Basketball League for the first time after defeating BC Kalev in the quarter-final series. As the host of the final tournament you lost the semi-finals against Žalgiris Kaunas and reached third place. Zinzadze himself was named MVP of the Estonian league that season.
For the 2009/10 season, Zinzadse switched to the Greek A1 Ethniki at AS Trikala 2000 . In December 2009 he left the club again, which then brought back Mark Dickel , which did not save him from relegation at the end of the season. At the Donetsk basketball club , Zinzadze was not particularly happy afterwards either, because the latter stopped making payments in March 2010, whereupon he moved to Trefl Sopot in the Polish PLK . In the semifinal series for the Polish championship they were eliminated in the prestige duel against the former Sopot club Asseco Prokom Gdynia . Former basketball Bundesliga players such as Ronald Burrell and Jan-Hendrik Jagla were active in the defending champion and later title holder from the neighboring city of Gdynia , who also reached the quarter-finals of the ULEB Euroleague 2009/10 . In the 2010/11 season he played again for Tartu Rock. The double winner of the previous season lost again the final series against BC Kalev, while the title in the cup competition could be defended. After the Georgian national team had made it to the final round for the first time in 2010, they made it into the intermediate round of the twelve best teams at the 2011 European Championship finals in Lithuania after two preliminary round wins. In the first game of the intermediate round they lost two points to the later semi-finalist Macedonia and Zinzadze tore a cruciate ligament, which was the second important injury-related loss next to the only NBA professional Sasa Patchschulia in the ranks of the Georgians at the time . Georgia then lost all other intermediate round matches and was eliminated. For Zinzadse without a contract, the injury meant a break of several months.
In 2012, Zinzadse started a comeback at Olimpi from Tbilisi, where he played with his national team-mate Giorgi Gamqrelidse , among others . Olimpi reached the final series of the Georgian championship, in which they lost to local rivals and defending champions BC Armia. For the following season, Zinzadze moved to the Ukrainian champions BK Budiwelnik from Kiev .
Web links
- archive.fiba.com: Players - George TSINTSADZE (GEO) - Overview of participation in FIBA tournaments (English)
- Tsintsadze, GEORGE - Statistics on the websites of the ULEB (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Yarone Arbel: Georgia vs. Finland Preview. FIBA Europa , September 10, 2011, accessed October 15, 2011 (English, game preview).
- ↑ TSINTSADZE, GEORGE. ULEB Euroleague , accessed on October 15, 2011 (English, player statistics 2003/04).
- ↑ Yarone Arbel: Tsintsadze blooms. FIBA Europa , April 18, 2008, accessed October 15, 2011 .
- ↑ EuroCup All Star starters set. FIBA Europa , March 4, 2008, accessed October 15, 2011 .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Zinzadze, Giorgi |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | ცინცაძე, გიორგი; Tsintsadze, Giorgi; Tsintsadze, George |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Georgian basketball player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 7, 1986 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tbilisi |