Omari Tetradze: biography and achievements of the football player

Omari Tetradze is a former Soviet and Russian footballer, best known for playing in the clubs Dynamo (Moscow), Alania (Vladikavkaz), Roma (Italy). Currently he works as head coach in the club "Yenisei", acting in the championship of Russia (FNL).

Dossier

Omari Mikhailovich Tetradze was born on October 13, 1969 in the village of Velispiri of the Dmanisi district of the Georgian SSR (USSR). Russian citizen. Years of performance in big football - 1987-2005. Game role - midfielder, defender. Height - 186 cm, weight - 70 kg.

Playing career

As a football player, Omari Tetradze played in the championships of five countries (the USSR, Georgia, Russia, Italy, Greece) for eight different teams. He played 386 fights in which he scored 19 goals.

• 1987-89 - "Dynamo" (Tbilisi, the USSR);
• 1990 - "Mertskhali" (Ozurgeti, Georgia);
• 1991-94 - Dynamo (Moscow);
• 1995-96, 2002 - Alania (Vladikavkaz);
• 1996-99 - Roma (Rome, Italy);
• 1999-2002 - PAOK (Thessaloniki, Greece);
• 2003 - "Anji" (Makhachkala);
• 2004-05 - "Wings of the Soviets" (Samara).

From 1990 to 2002, Omari Tetradze was in favor of three different national teams of the Soviet and post-Soviet period (USSR, CIS, Russia). He spent 45 matches, scored 1 goal. Participant of the World Cup 1994, European Championship-1996.

• 1990-91 - the USSR Olympic team;
• 1992 - the national team of the CIS;
• 1992-02 - the Russian national team.

Stages of football path

Omari Tetradze (real name Osipov) is a pupil of the Tbilisi children and youth sports school Avaza. Professional football career began in the team "Dynamo" (Tbilisi), speaking in the championship of the Soviet Union. In the highest league of the USSR championship, he spent three seasons, played 24 matches.

Then came the troubled times in the country, in Georgia, in football. Georgia, one of the first republics that make up the USSR, proclaims its independence. In the newly founded championship, the best clubs, hastily assembled, are conducting the first independent championship. Tetradze stands for the team "Mertskhali" from the town of Ozurgeti. As a result of the competition, the club ranks ninth in the championship of Georgia.

On the level of the championship itself can be judged by the representation in it of teams that until recently played at the best in the first and second leagues of the USSR championship. In addition, the country was not up to football. The matches were held practically at empty stands. The best players, not seeing further prospects, moved to the countries of near and far abroad. Changed the situation and Omari Tetradze. In 1991, he became a player of the Moscow "Dynamo". Here, the player played four seasons. As a player, "Dynamo" took part in the final stage of the 1994 World Cup in the Russian team. The team performed extremely unsuccessfully, unable to overcome the group stage of the competition. Tetradze played one match of the tournament in a meaningless meeting against Cameroon.

He also spoke at the European Championships in 1996.

In total for the Moscow club Omari played 101 matches, in which he scored 11 goals. After an incorrect statement in the light of two consecutive home defeats in the Russian championship, he was transferred to a double, and in fact expelled K. Beskov from the Dynamo.

Since 1995, Omari Tetradze is a footballer of "Alania". For two seasons in the Vladikavkaz team, he becomes the owner of gold and silver medals of the championship of Russia. It coincided that with the departure of Tetradze "Alania" turned into an ordinary team, the middle of the Russian championship. And Omari left in the strongest at that time championship - the Italian Serie A.

Since 1997 he is a player of the club "Roma". With this club Omari Tetradze signed a contract. The amount of the contract was 1.5 million dollars, the time of the agreement is 3.5 years. But by and large the career in "Roma" did not develop for the player. The player began to pursue injuries. And in one of the matches, he injured the cruciate ligaments of the knee and for a long time dropped out of the main structure of the club. In total, for three spent seasons in the championship of Italy, Omari played only 15 fights. Having unilaterally broken the agreement with "Roma", he returns to Moscow.

From 1999 to 2002 Tetradze was a footballer of the Greek club PAOK. It was one of the best periods of a player's career. For four years, Omari is the best football player of the club, its leader, leader, captain of the team. Adopting Greek citizenship, he, along with performances for the club, passed mandatory military training in the ranks of the armed forces of the country.

Wishing to take part in the World Cup 2002, he returns to the Russian championship, to his native team "Anji". Here Omari spends a good season, clearly and reliably performing the functions assigned to him by the defender. But after he was superfluous in the entry list for the World Cup, after finishing the championship for "Anji", Tetradze goes to the Samara "Wings of the Soviets." In this club, he spent his last matches as a football player.

Coach career

Since 2006, Omari Tetradze has been coaching. The first place of his work in this position was the team "Wings of the Soviets", from where Omari left with a scandal. They say that he threatened with his pistol to his football player, forcing him to hand over a match to one of the teams of the championship of Russia. Then there was cooperation with the clubs "Anji", "Volga", "Khimki", "Zhetysu". In 2015, for one year, signed an agreement with the team "Yenisei" (Krasnoyarsk). In the coaching field, Tetradze has not achieved significant success. Although, on the other hand, he did not work in the top-level teams. He managed in 2009 to bring the club "Anji" to the top division, and in 2010 - the team "Volga" (Nizhny Novgorod).

Trophies and achievements

As a football player, Omari Tetradze became the winner (1995), silver (1996) and bronze (1992, 1993, 2004) winner of the Russian championship, winner of the Greek Cup (2001). In 1995-1996, he was recognized as the best defender of the championship of Russia.