Rati Tsinamdzgvrishvili

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Rati Tsinamdzgvrishvili (რატი წინამძღვრიშვილი [georgian]) Professional Georgian football player currently playing for FC Ameri.

He made his international debut for the Georgian national team at the age of 17. His second appearance for Georgia was against the European champions Greece in Athens on Oct. 12 2005 where he played the full second half but without scoring. Georgia lost that match 1-0.

In 2006 he won the Georgian Cup with his current club FC Ameri in the final of which he scored a beautiful header.

His last name, Tsinamdzgvrishvili, which takes 18 letters to spell in English and contains 13 consonants, has been found by most foreigners to be unpronounceable. So in most games, his name on the back of his shirt normally only reads Rati (his first name) instead of Tsinamdzgvrishvili, which would take three separate lines of readable-sized letters on the back of a football shirt. Tsinamdzgvrishvili is an old Georgian noble name, of which Rati is a direct descendant.

His family and grandfather, Ilia Tninamdzgvrishvili, still live in the village of Tsinamdzgvriantkari (named after the Tsinamdzgvrishvilis) in the hills near the Georgian capital Tbilisi. This is where Rati spent a lot of his childhood. He is known to be very proud of his roots.

His Grandfather, Ilia, who is a retired PE teacher, and his uncle, Mamuka Tsinamdzgvrishvili, a successful Georgian wrestler, were the main influences in Rati’s sporting upbringing

Position: Striker

Dob: 22.03.88

Weight: 84kg

Height: 187cm

Other clubs/teams:

Georgian National Team 2/0

Georgia U21: 7/2:

Georgia U19 9/7;

Georgia U18: 3/3;

Georgia U17: 5/3;

NORCHI DINAMOELI-2 Tbilisi