Rati Aleksidze

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Rati Aleksidze (born August 3, 1978) is a football striker from Georgia. Due to career difficulties he lost his place on the national team, where scored 2 goals in 19 caps between 1998 and 2004.

His club career started in Dinamo Tbilisi in the 1996/97 season. His goalscoring abilities helped them win the league titles in 1997, 1998, 1999 as well as the 1997 cup. During his Dinamo career Aleksidze scored 33 goals in 71 appearances, and especially the 12 goals in 14 games in the 1999/00 season attracted the interest of bigger European clubs. He was taken on trial to English team Chelsea, who decided to buy him. The spell was a complete failure, however, as he only played 2 league games. Released by Chelsea in September 2001, he eventually returned to Dinamo where he did score 9 goals in his first season. In 2004 he was bought by Russian team FC Rostov then returned to Georgia where he now plays for FC Lokomotivi Tbilisi.