Roin Kvaskhvadze
Personal information
Full name Roin Kvaskhvadze
Date of birth (1989-05-31) 31 May 1989
Place of birth Kutaisi, Georgia
Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Team information
Current team
 Dinamo Batumi
Number 1
Youth career
2003–2005 Tbilisi
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2005–2014 Zestafoni 184 (0)
2014 Torpedo Kutaisi 14 (0)
2014–2015 Othellos Athienou 26 (0)
2015 Pafos 15 (0)
2015–2019 Torpedo Kutaisi 111 (0)
2020–2021 Dinamo Tbilisi 35 (0)
2021–2023 Torpedo Kutaisi 38 (0)
2023– Dinamo Batumi 16 (0)
International career‡
2005 Georgia U-17 3 (0)
2006–2007 Georgia U-19 2 (0)
2008–2010 Georgia U-21 9 (0)
2012– Georgia 8 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 3 December 2023
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 21 August 2017

Roin Kvaskhvadze (Georgian: როინ კვასხვაძე, romanized: roin k'vaskhvadze, pronounced [ɾoin kʼʷasχʷadze]; born 31 May 1989) is a Georgian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Dinamo Batumi.

Kvaskhvadze has achieved winning at least one trophy in eight consecutive years starting from 2016. Being the winner of 14 trophies, including five league titles with four different clubs, Kvaskhvadze has become one of the most decorated Georgian goalkeepers. Twice he was recognized as the Erovnuli Liga Goalkeeper of the Year.

He has featured for the Georgia national under-21 football team and also earned call-ups to the Georgia national football team.

Playing career

Club

First decade

Kvaskhvadze grew up in the family of footballers, where both his father and grandfather played for Torpedo Kutaisi as goalkeepers. Roin took first steps at the Memoriali football school formed by his own father.[1]

His professional career began at the ascending club Zestafoni, which achieved a remarkable domestic success in the late 2000s and early 2010s. As a main shot-stopper, he was regarded as a key contributor to the progress that this team achieved during these several seasons. Kvaskhvadze bade farewell to Zestafoni in early 2014.[2]

Torpedo Kutaisi

After a half season spent at Torpedo Kutaisi, he left for Cyprus only to come back to his home club a year later.[3]

Twice in a row, in 2017 and 2018, Kvaskhvadze was named the best goalkeeper of Erovnuli Liga.[4][5] Especially noteworthy was an injury-time penalty kick saved by Kvaskhadze in a crucial clash with Dinamo Tbilisi on 27 November 2017. As a result, Torpedo dramatically snatched the title, becoming the champions for the first time in fifteen years. Kvaskhvadze revealed that this circumstance made him feel the happiest man.[6] Shortly afterwards, the team secured the Cup and Super cup titles as well.

Being the team captain now, Kvaskhvadze signed another two-year contract with the club in early 2019.[7] But the entire year turned out turbulent for Torpedo with new financial woes, management crisis and mass exodus of players permanently rocking the club.

Dinamo and back to Torpedo

At the end of 2019 Kvaskhvadze joined Torpedo's bitter rivals Dinamo Tbilisi on a two-year deal.[8] He played in all eighteen league matches next year, keeping eleven clean sheets. After Dinamo's another disastrous European campaign, on 21 July 2021 Kvaskhvadze left the club with 21 clean sheets in all competitions combined.[9]

A few days later he returned to Torpedo once again. In 2022, the club clinched the national cup with Kvaskhvadze in goal for the final game.[10] In April 2023, he was named the best goalkeeper of the initial nine rounds of the new season.[11] The next month, head coach Kakha Chkhetiani, who likewise was on the 3rd spell with Torpedo, was sacked, followed by the departure of three key players, including Roin Kvaskhavdze.[12]

Dinamo Batumi

Kvaskhvadze moved to Dinamo Batumi in early July 2023, a week before the latter joined a new European season.[13] Although he did not take part in any of those two matches, Kvaskhvadze soon became a first-choice goalkeeper. As his new club secured the champion's title in late autumn, Kvaskhvadze claimed the national golden medals with the fourth Georgian team now.[14]

International

Roin Kvaskhvadze has participated in qualifying rounds of the 2011 European U21 championship for a team which also featured Nika Kvekveskiri, Jano Ananidze and Tornike Okriashvili.[15]

Kvaskhvadze made his debut at the national team in an opening match of the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification campaign against Spain as a substitute in September 2012.[16] He also took part in a friendly 1–0 winning game against the same opponents four years later.[17] Overall, as No 2 choice behind Giorgi Loria, he played in eight matches for the team.

Statistics

As of 6 December 2023
Club Season League Cup Continental Other Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Zestafoni 2005/06 Umaglesi Liga 30—————30
2006/07 10———10
2007/08 90———90
2008/09 170—20—190
2009/10 1801050—240
2010/11 3504020—410
2011/12 2804040—360
2012/13 28020201[lower-alpha 1]0330
2013/14 16020——180
Total 1550130150101840
Torpedo Kutaisi 2013/14 Umaglesi Liga 14020——160
Othellos 2014/15 Cypriot First Division 26040——300
Pafos 2015/16 150———150
Torpedo Kutaisi 2015/16 Erovnuli Liga 110———110
2016 13040—1[lower-alpha 1]0180
2017 3604———400
2018 32050801[lower-alpha 1]0460
2019 190140201[lower-alpha 1]0360
Dinamo Tbilisi 2020 Erovnuli Liga 18020301[lower-alpha 1]0240
2021 17040101[lower-alpha 1]0230
Total 350604020470
Torpedo Kutaisi 2021 Erovnuli Liga 50———50
2022 27040——310
2023 60———60
Total 1630310100302070
Dinamo Batumi 2023 Erovnuli Liga 160100000170
Career total 4100550290605000

Notes

Honours

Club

Individual

References

  1. ↑ "ტორპედოს 14-წლამდე გუნდმა როინ კვასხვაძის ტურნირი მოიგო" (in Georgian). 13 November 2019.
  2. ↑ "კვასხვაძე "ზესტაფონიდან" წავიდა". worldsport.ge (in Georgian). 9 January 2014.
  3. ↑ ""ტორპედოს" როინ კვასხვაძე შეუერთდა". mysports.ge (in Georgian). 17 January 2016.
  4. ↑ "GFF awards 2017". gff.ge (in Georgian). 27 December 2017.
  5. ↑ "GFF awards 2018". gff.ge (in Georgian). 28 December 2018.
  6. ↑ ""უბედნიერესი კაცი ვარ, რომ ბოლო წუთზე პენალტი ავიღე"-როინ კვასხვაძე". newpress.ge (in Georgian). 27 November 2017.
  7. ↑ "როინ კვასხვაძე "ტორპედოში" 2020 წლამდე დარჩება". fanebi.com (in Georgian). 2 February 2019.
  8. ↑ "ოფიციალურად: როინ კვასხვაძე "დინამოს" ფეხბურთელია". worldsport.ge (in Georgian). 28 December 2019.
  9. ↑ "ოფიციალურად: როინ კვასხვაძემ დინამო თბილისი დატოვა". belive.ge (in Georgian). 21 July 2021.
  10. ↑ "მე-5 თასი - ტორპედომ ტიტული 4 წლის შემდეგ ისევ ჩხეტიანთან ერთად მოიპოვა". europop.ge (in Georgian). 7 December 2022.
  11. ↑ "ეროვნულმა ლიგამ პირველი წრის საუკეთესოები დაასახელა ფეხბურთი 24 აპრ 2023 / 19:00 ეროვნულმა ლიგამ პირველი წრის საუკეთესოები დაასახელა". europop.ge (in Georgian). 27 April 2023.
  12. ↑ "ქუთაისის ტორპედო სამმა ფეხბურთელმა დატოვა". crystalsport.ge (in Georgian). 16 May 2023.
  13. ↑ "კვასხვაძე, ხარაბაძე და სხვა". sportall.ge (in Georgian). 7 July 2023.
  14. ↑ "როინ კვასხვაძის უნიკალური მიღწევა". 1tv.ge (in Georgian). Retrieved 27 November 2023.
  15. ↑ The Irish Times (10 October 2009). "Ireland denied first win at the death". The Irish Times. Retrieved 25 October 2009.
  16. ↑ "Georgia lost 0-1 to Spain". dfwatch.net. 12 September 2012.
  17. ↑ "Spain suffer surprise defeat by Georgia in final Euro 2016 warm-up friendly". The Guardian. 7 June 2016.
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