MARCA: ‘Barcelona are tracking Georgian starlet Giorgi Chakvetadze’

Georgian football player Giorgi Chakvetadze. Photo: UEFA.

Agenda.ge, Nov 20, 2018, Tbilisi, Georgia

Spanish national daily sport newspaper MARCA has published an article, the headline of which reads “Barcelona are tracking Georgian starlet Giorgi Chakvetadze”, and highlights the success story of the Georgian football player and conjecturing his possible reunion with the Barcelona football team.

In the eighth minute of Georgia's UEFA Nations League game in Andorra, they found the net when a cross was turned in by Giorgi Chakvetadze. From the stands, the members of Barcelona's scouting team were satisfied with what they were seeing from the playmaker, who currently plies his trade with Gent at club level”, read the article.

The article reads that Barcelona’s scouting team has been keeping tabs on the player for a year and has witnessed him in person several times this season in Belgium.

Besides Barcelona clubs such as Bournemouth and Tottenham are also following Chakvetadze closely, reads the article, which describes Chakvetadze as a promising football player.

Chakvetadze is not your typical small midfielder with a lot of technical skill and vision for passing between the lines. At a height of 1.83m, he is a physical player and often uses that strength and height to his advantage in winning the ball and driving forward. He also has a fantastic turn of pace and is rapid in his movement, making him very difficult to stop when he gets going”, reads the article.

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