Zurab Khizanishvili to work in Locomotive

A veteran footballer Zurab Khizanishvili is back to Locomotive Tbilisi and is going to work in the main team.

35 years old trainer will be an assistant of Giorgi Devdariani. Khizanishvili has drawn up a contract with Locomotive, valid for 1 year and the half.

Through the 19 years long career Zurab has played in many Georgian and foreign teams. In 2001, he moved to Dundee Scotland from Locomotive.

After Dundee, Khizanishvili has also been a part of the most glorious club of Scotland, Rangers. After that, there was a Premier League of England and Blackburn Rovers. In the Championship of England Zura has also played wearing the T-shirts of Newcastle United and Reading.

He finished his career in Inter Baku in 2017. Wearing a T-shirt of the Azerbaijani club, Khizanishvili has played in 50 matches and has scored 6 balls.

After Levan Kobiashvili, most of the matches by the Georgian team are played by Zura. With a T-shirt of the national team, he has scored 1 goal in 93 matches.

He owns Coaching License A, and besides working in Locomotive Tbilisi, simultaneously, he is an assistant of Gia Geguchadze, in the Georgian U21 squad.