Khvicha Kvaratskhelia named Player of the Year in Georgian Football Federation awards
Head coaches of all 10 national league teams, 11 players, head coaches and captains of futsal and women’s leagues, as well as players of the Georgian national team and sports journalists voted in the survey for revealing winners in nominations. Photo: Georgian Football Federation.
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Napoli’s Georgian midfielder Khvicha Kvaratskhelia was named Player of the Year in the end-of-year awards of the Georgian Football Federation on Monday, with Eter Sulashvili awarded the Female Player of the Year prize.
Head coaches of all 10 national league teams, 11 players, head coaches and captains of futsal and women’s leagues, as well as players of the Georgian national team and sports journalists voted in the survey for revealing winners in nominations.
Anzor Mekvabishvili, the 20-year-old midfielder playing for Dinamo Tbilisi and the national team, was named Young Player of the Year in the awards ceremony.
Lela Chichinadze won the title of Best Player. Photo: Georgian Football Federation
In Women’s Championship, Lela Chichinadze from Dinamo Sokhumi won the title of the Best Player, with Martve Kutaisi’s Avtandil Revishvili awarded as the Best Coach of the league.
Captain of the Futsal national Team, Zviad Kupatadze at the award ceremony. Photo: GFF
Zviad Kupatadze, the captain of the Futsal national team, was named Player of the Year for the respective category.
Aleksandre Aptsiauri at the award ceremony. Photo: GFF
Among referees involved in domestic competitions, Aleksandre Aptsiauri earned the top spot in the end-of-year awards.
Prizes for promoting the sport went to Dimitri Areshidze, a fan from the western Terjola region who is involved in GFF-supported regional projects, and Zviad Tsartsidze, the coach of the Sachkhere women’s team in the west.
Georgian Football Federation President Levan Kobiashvili will run in the Executive Committee elections of the Union of European Football Associations next year, GFF General Secretary Davit Mujiri announced on Thursday.
Tamar Chichinadze, the Head of the International Relations Department of the Georgian Football Federation, has been appointed as a UEFA delegate for the 2022 European Women's Football Championship, the Federation announced on Friday.
Georgian national football team captain Guram Kashia has become the first-ever recipient of the UEFA #EqualGame Award, honouring the player’s support of the LGBT community on the field.
The top players, managers, referees and honoured figures of the past year in football were acknowledged in Tbilisi within the annual Georgian Football Federation (GFF) Awards on Wednesday.
La Repubblica, a leading Italian newspaper, highlighted the performance of Napoli’s Georgian winger Khvicha Kvaratskhelia in a new article this week by saying Georgian football had “suddenly grown”, with the national team moving from being listed 150th in FIFA rankings to the current 78th due to Georgian player’s performance.
British news website Daily Mail on Monday praised the performance of Napoli’s Georgian winger Khvicha Kvaratskhelia by saying he had cemented himself as the Italian league's “main star”, following his contribution to Friday’s crushing 5-1 victory over Juventus in which the Georgian scored a goal and made two assists.
The Guardian has listed Napoli’s Georgian winger Khvicha Kvaratskhelia in its list of world’s best 100 footballers, with the midfielder joining the likes of Sadio Mane, Neymar and other star players in the ranking.