Merab Jordania

Merab Jordania
Personal information
Full nameMerab Jordania
Date of birth3 September 1965
Place of birthTbilisi, Georgian SSR
Height1.84 m (6 ft 12 in)
Playing positionMidfielder
Youth career
FC Dinamo Tbilisi
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1980–1981FC Dinamo Tbilisi0(0)
1982–1983FC Torpedo Kutaisi18(0)
1984–1987FC Dinamo Tbilisi22(0)
1988–1990FC Guria Lanchkhuti78(44)
1990FC Shevardeni-1906 Tbilisi2(1)
1992Stjarnan5(1)
Teams managed
2003Georgia
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 28 October 2010.
† Appearances (Goals).

Merab Jordania, in Georgian: მერაბ ჟორდანია (born 3 September 1965 in Tbilisi), is a retired Georgian footballer.

He is currently the owner and chairman of Maltese football club Valletta FC.[1]

Club career

During his career he played for Dinamo Tbilisi (1980–81, 1984–87), Torpedo Kutaisi (1982–1983) and FC Guria Lanchkhuti (1988–90).

Managerial and presidential career

Later, in 1998-2005 he was the president of Georgian Football Federation. In 2003 he was one of the temporary managers of Georgia national football team.

Vitesse Arnhem

In August 2010, he bought financially troubled Vitesse. He followed-up by acquiring the services of new players and replacing manager Theo Bos with the unexperienced Albert Ferrer, a former Spanish international defender. The current manager, as of 2013, is Peter Bosz.

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