Temuri Ketsbaia

From Phantis
Revision as of 11:21, May 29, 2009 by Irlandos (talk | contribs)
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Temuri Ketsbaia (born 18 March 1968 in Gali, Georgia) is a former Georgian footballer - currently a coach - who was previously one of the leading players with the Georgian national team.

He began his career with minor Georgian team Dinamo Sukhumi before transferring to Dinamo Tbilisi, the country's biggest team. He came to prominence whilst with Dinamo and earned a move to Cypriot club Anorthosis Famagusta FC in 1992 and then to Greece with AEK, winning the Greek Cup with the club.

Under the Bosman ruling, Ketsbaia became a free agent in the summer of 1997 and joined Newcastle United. Although a popular figure with the fans, Ketsbaia was used sparingly by the club, particularly under Ruud Gullit. He left St James' Park in 2000 to sign for Wolves in a £900,000 deal but again failed to fully settle and in 2001 joined Dundee F.C. during a time when the club began to spend at unheard of levels. He returned to Anorthosis in the Summer of 2002 as a player-coach. He won the Cypriot championship in 2005 and 2008 leading Anorthosis into the group stages of the Champions' League in 2008.

On April 13, 2009, Ketsbaia submitted his resignation as coach of Anorthosis. He has signed to take over the helm of Olympiakos Piraeus for the 2010 season.

External links


A portion of content for this article is credited to Wikipedia. Content under GNU Free Documentation License(GFDL)