Of course, football and trauma are inalienable but their “friendship” is predominant in the Georgians.  Maybe it is because of the wrong approach in the childhood? Unfortunately, U-18-23 football players often have injuries. Some overcome difficulties easily but some not.

In the 90s there were some cases when Georgian football players got injured and did not play 6 months. Archil Arveladze has suffered the most – he had operations from the youth.

Some talented boys showed up in the age teams but then antibiotics, injections, surgeries… Many promising football players suffered from injuries – Lasha Jakobia, Rati Tsinamdzgvrishvili, Giorgi Ganugrava, Levan Kenia, Levan Mchedlidze, Bachana Arabuli.

Here is the list of 10 current football players who often have injuries and it had effect on their career:

Levan Kenia. He has not played almost 3 years. He was operated on the ankle three times. Kenia got injured in November 2009. He often has injuries…

Mate Vatsadze. He often has injuries: in “Dinamo” Tbilisi, “Volga”, “Aarhus”. Last summer before he got injured, he was in a good shape.

Jaba Kankava. Nowadays, Jaba is one of the best football players in Georgia. However, he lost golden years. He was operated on from spring 2008 to the end of 2010.

Nika Dzalamidze. Last year he held only 5 matches at the Polish Championship. The ankle injury was added to the tendons, operation and rehabilitation.

Otar Khizaneishvili. He was often injured. He said while playing for “Freiburg”, he had offer from “Schalke” but got injured.

Giorgi Khidesheli. A talented defender who was invited to the national team at the age of 17 missed 2 years and started playing in the current season. he had the tendon injury.      

Rati Tsinamdzgvrishvili. 7 years ago he got injured in “Ameri” and did not play one year. He often has injuries.

Davit Devdariani. He often missed 2-3 months. Unfortunately, it does not let him show himself better in “Aarhus”.

Levan Mchedlidze. He had the leg injury from the age of 16 and fortunately, he does not have this problem now. Mchedlidze started playing for the national team 4-5 times and was replaced due to injury.

Bachana Arabuli. In spring 2011 he got injured so that nobody touched him. According to the doctors, it is the toughest injury. He was treated more than a year.

This list can be bigger but we chose these 10 players. They overcame the tough period and are playing now. There are some players who had to give up football due to injury.

Ilia Nanobashvili