Mate Vatsadze

Mate Vatsadze

With Dila Gori in 2012
Personal information
Date of birth (1988-12-17) 17 December 1988
Place of birth Tbilisi, Georgia
Height 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Playing position Forward
Club information
Current team
 Locomotive Tbilisi
Number 21
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2004–2008 Dinamo-2 Tbilisi 53 (21)
2005–2010 Dinamo Tbilisi 96 (42)
2011–2012 Volga Nizhny Novgorod 20 (1)
2012 Dila Gori 15 (13)
2012–2016 AGF Aarhus 75 (29)
2016– Locomotive Tbilisi 1 (0)
National team‡
2008–2010 Georgia U21 5 (1)
2009– Georgia 15 (4)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 22 September 2016.

‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 22 September 2016

Mate Vatsadze (born 17 December 1988) is Georgian football player, currently playing for Locomotive Tbilisi.[1]

Playing career

Vatsadze started his professional career with FC Dinamo Tbilisi, playing 96 games and scoring 42 goals for the first team between 2005 and 2010, before moving to FC Volga Nizhny Novgorod to play in the Russian Premier League in 2011. While playing in Russia, he was called up for the Georgia national football team, to play in the Euro 2012 qualifying matches against Croatia and Israel, but he was not able to get the required visa.[2] So he soon returned to Georgia to join Dila Gori at the end of the season. On 2 September 2012 he signed a 3½-year contract with Danish Superliga side AGF

Vatsadze was discovered by AGF in the 2012–13 Europa League Second qualifying round where he impressed by scoring three goals for Dila Gori against AGF and went on to score twice in the Third qualifying round away leg in Cyprus against Anorthosis, to help Dila Gori progress to the Play-off round. Vatsadze also scored twice in the 2010–11 UEFA Europa League Second qualifying round, helping Dinamo Tbilisi to eliminate Swedish Gefle IF, when they managed to beat them both home and away. He also scored a goal for Dinamo Tbilisi in the 2009–10 UEFA Europa League Third qualifying round, in the away leg against Red Star Belgrade.

Honours

Dinamo Tbilisi
Dila Gori
AGF

References

  1. ↑ AGF ophæver med Mate Vatsadze, bold.dk, 31 August 2016
  2. ↑ "National Team - Modebadze instead of Vatsadze". worldsport.ge. 2011-03-16. Retrieved 2011-03-16.
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