Otar Khizaneishvili

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Otar Khizaneishvili

Full name	Otar Khizaneishvili
Date of birth	September 26, 1981 (1981-09-26) (age 26)
Place of birth	Tbilisi, Soviet Union
Height	1.87m
Playing position	Defence
Club information
Current club	Kayserispor
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1988-2000 2000-2001 2001-2002 2001-2004 2004 2005-2008 2008-	Dinamo Tbilisi FC Spartak Moscow FC Rostov Dinamo Tblisi FC Dynamo Moscow SC Freiburg Kayserispor	15 (0) 04 (0) 04 (0) 33 (0) 14 (0) 32 (1) 0
National team²
	Georgia	19 (0)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 12:34, 20 May 2008 (UTC). ² National team caps and goals correct as of 12:34, 11 January 2008 (UTC). * Appearances (Goals)

Otar Khizaneishvili (born September 26, 1981 in Tbilisi) is a Georgian footballer.

Khizaneishvili came from the youth team of Dinamo Tbilisi, and debuted for the Georgian national team at the age of 18. He went to Russian giants Spartak Moscow, but failed to make a breakthrough and had various spells for other Russian clubs as well as Dinamo in the following seasons. Fine performances for Georgia in the qualification for the 2006 FIFA World Cup attracted the interest of SC Freiburg, which has a knack for signing Georgian players. Khizaneishvili currently has 19 caps for the national team.

He scored his first goal for Freiburg in a 3-1 win against Rot-Weiss Essen on January 28, 2007.^[1]