Merab Jordania

Merab Jordania

Personal information
Full name	Merab Jordania
Date of birth	(1965-09-03) 3 September 1965
Place of birth	Tbilisi, Georgian SSR
Height
Position(s)	Midfielder
Youth career
	FC Dinamo Tbilisi
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1980–1981	FC Dinamo Tbilisi	0	(0)
1982–1983	FC Torpedo Kutaisi	18	(0)
1984–1987	FC Dinamo Tbilisi	22	(0)
1988–1990	FC 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, correct as of 28 October 2010

Merab Jordania, in Georgian: მერაბ ჟორდანია (born 3 September 1965 in Tbilisi), is a retired Georgian footballer.

He is currently the owner and chairman of Maltese football club Valletta FC.

Club career

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

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

In August 2010, he bought financially troubled Vitesse Arnhem. He followed-up by acquiring the services of new players and replacing manager Theo Bos with the unexperienced Albert Ferrer, a former Spanish international defender. The current manager, as of 2013, is Peter Bosz.

External links

• Official Web-site