Merab Jordania
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Merab Jordania | ||
Date of birth | 3 September 1965 | ||
Place of birth | Tbilisi, Georgian SSR | ||
Height | 1.84 m (6 ft 1⁄2 in) | ||
Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
Youth career | |||
FC Dinamo Tbilisi | |||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1980–1981 | FC Dinamo Tbilisi | 0 | (0) |
1982–1983 | FC Torpedo Kutaisi | 18 | (0) |
1984–1987 | FC Dinamo Tbilisi | 22 | (0) |
1988–1990 | FC Guria Lanchkhuti | 78 | (44) |
1990 | FC Shevardeni-1906 Tbilisi | 2 | (1) |
1992 | Stjarnan | 5 | (1) |
Managerial career | |||
2003 | Georgia | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 28 October 2010 |
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 Arnhem. 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.
References
- ^ http://weaintgotnohistory.sbnation.com/2014/1/26/5343492/vitesse-chelsea-merab-jordania-valletta-fc-malta.
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External links
- Use dmy dates from September 2011
- 1965 births
- Living people
- Mingrelians
- Sports executives and administrators
- Footballers from Georgia (country)
- Soviet footballers
- Honoured Masters of Sport of the USSR
- FC Dinamo Tbilisi players
- FC Guria Lanchkhuti players
- Georgia national football team managers
- Stjarnan players
- Georgia (country) football biography stubs
- Soviet football biography stubs