Rati Tsinamdzgvrishvili

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Rati Tsinamdzgvrishvili (რატი წინამძღვრიშვილი [Georgian]) is a Georgian football player, currently playing for FC Ameri Tbilisi.

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. 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 two to 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 Tsinamdzgvrishvili, 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.

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.

In August 2007 Rati suffered a serious knee injury whilst on a football tournament with his club FC Ameri in the Czech Republic. He has consequently undergone a knee surgery and is presently going through an intensive physiotherapy to help him to full recovery.

Position: Striker

DOB: 22.03.88

Weight: 84 kg

Height: 187 cm

National teams details:

Georgian National Team: 3 games/0 goal; Georgia U21: 7/2; Georgia U19: 13/11; Georgia U18: 3/3; Georgia U17: 5/3