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Merab Jordania

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Merab Jordania
Personal information
Date of birth (1960-09-03) 3 September 1960 (age 64)
Place of birth Tbilisi, Georgian SSR
Height 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Youth career
Dinamo Tbilisi
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1980–1981 Dinamo Tbilisi 0 (0)
1982–1983 FC Torpedo Kutaisi 18 (0)
1984–1987 Dinamo Tbilisi 22 (0)
1988–1990 Guria Lanchkhuti 78 (44)
1990 FC Shevardeni-1906 Tbilisi 2 (1)
1992 Stjarnan 5 (1)
Managerial career
2003 Georgia
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Merab Jordania (Georgian: მერაბ ჟორდანია; born 3 September 1965), is a Georgian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He is the owner and chairman of Maltese football club Valletta FC.[1]

Club career

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Jordania was born in Tbilisi. During his career he played for Dinamo Tbilisi (1980–81, 1984–87), Torpedo Kutaisi (1982–1983) and FC Guria Lanchkhuti (1988–90).

Managerial and presidential career

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Later, in 1998-2005 he was the president of Georgian Football Federation. In 2003, he was one of the temporary managers of Georgia national football team.

Vitesse Arnhem

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In August 2010, he bought financially troubled Vitesse Arnhem. There were rumors that this purchase was engineered by Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich.[2] He followed up by acquiring the services of new players and replacing manager Theo Bos with the inexperienced Albert Ferrer, a former Spanish international defender. In 2013, Jordania appointed Peter Bosz, who left the club in January 2015. In 2016, Henk Fraser was appointed manager of the Vitesse first team.

References

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  1. ^ "Former Vitesse owner buys new club". 26 January 2014.
  2. ^ "How Chelsea's links to Vitesse Arnhem run deeper than the public was told | David Conn". TheGuardian.com. 28 February 2017.
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Preceded by Presidents of GFF
1998–2005
Succeeded by