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Giorgi Navalovski ( ka, გიორგი ნავალოვსკი, tr, ; born 28 June 1986) is a retired
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n
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. Dubbed as ''the Georgian Gattuso'' for physical similarities with the
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, during his 18 year-long career Navalovski played as a
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for several clubs in five countries and the
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.


Career


Club career

Navalovski's first steps in football started at ''Avaza school'', followed by ''35th football school'', where he drew attention from
Dinamo Tbilisi Dinamo Tbilisi is a sports club from Tbilisi, Georgia (country), Georgia. It was founded in 1925. Among its highest honors, is the European trophy earned by its Association football, football team which won the Cup Winners' Cup in 1981, beating ...
scouts. First he joined the reserve team of this Georgian top club and shortly under Kakha Tskhadadze made his debut in
Umaglesi Liga The Erovnuli Liga ( ka, ეროვნული ლიგა; ) is the top division of professional top tier football in Georgia. Since 1990, it has been organized by the Professional Football League of Georgia and Georgian Football Federati ...
. In this year he won the first champion's title with Dinamo. After one year at Olimpi Rustavi, he spent next seven seasons abroad. In June 2015, he joined
Dila Gori FC Dila ('' Georgian'': საფეხბურთო კლუბი დილა) is a Georgian professional football club based in Gori. The club takes part in the Erovnuli Liga, the first tier of Georgian football, and plays their home ga ...
, which had become the league champion a month earlier. In July he took part in both Champions League qualifying matches against Partizan. Navalovski signed a contract with
Veria Veria (; ), officially transliterated Veroia, historically also spelled Beroea or Berea, is a city in Central Macedonia, in the geographic region of Macedonia, northern Greece, capital of the regional unit of Imathia. It is located north-nor ...
on 29 June 2016. On 27 December 2016, Navalovski signed for Neftchi Baku, terminating his contract by mutual consent on 20 July 2017. On 26 July 2017, Navalovski signed for
Russian Premier League The Russian Premier League (RPL; , ''Rossiyskaya premyer-liga''; РПЛ), also written as Russian Premier Liga, is a professional association football league in Russia and the highest level of the Russian football league system. It was establis ...
side SKA-Khabarovsk for his third stint with the club. In the summer of 2018 he moved to
Minsk Minsk (, ; , ) is the capital and largest city of Belarus, located on the Svislach (Berezina), Svislach and the now subterranean Nyamiha, Niamiha rivers. As the capital, Minsk has a special administrative status in Belarus and is the administra ...
, where he remained for six months. Early next year Navalovski returned to Georgia to sign for
Dinamo Batumi FC Dinamo Batumi ( ka, საფეხბურთო კლუბი დინამო ბათუმი) is a Georgian professional football club based in Batumi, Adjara that competes in the Erovnuli Liga, the top division of the national f ...
. He was a regular member of the team for four full seasons, once winning the league and three times the silver medals. His retirement was announced in late 2022.


International career

Navalovski made his debut for the
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in a 1–1 draw against
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on 27 May 2008. After participating in another friendly game against
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four days later, he did not play again until 2015. Navalovski made contribution to Georgia's successful
UEFA Nations League The UEFA Nations League is an international European football competition played by the senior men's national teams of the member associations of UEFA, the sport's European governing body. The competition was devised to minimise friendlies a ...
campaign in 2018. Overall, he played 41 matches and retired in 2021.


Career statistics


Notes


Honours

Azerbaijan Premier League The Azerbaijan Premier League (), also known as Misli Premyer Liqası for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Azerbaijan and the highest level of the Azerbaijani football league system. It is contested by twelve ...
* Winner (1): 2009/2010
Erovnuli Liga The Erovnuli Liga ( ka, ეროვნული ლიგა; ) is the top Division (sport), division of professional top tier Association football, football in Georgia (Country), Georgia. Since 1990, it has been organized by the Professional ...
* Winner (2): 2004/2005,
2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...
* Runner-up (3):
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,
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,
2022 The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ...
Russian First League The Russian First League (, Pervaya liga), formerly called Russian First Division () and Russian Football National League (FNL) () is the second level of the Football in Russia#League system, Russian football league system. The Russian Professio ...
* Winner (1): 2009 * Runner-up (1): 2010
Georgian Super Cup The Georgian Super Cup is a super cup tournament in Georgian football. Founded in 1996 as a two-team competition, the current version has been contested since 2023 by four teams, those being the first, second, and third placed teams in the Erovnul ...
* Winner (2): 2005/2006, 2022 * Runner-up (2): 2007/2008, 2015/2016


Personal information

Navalovski is married with two children. The Navalovski family comes from
Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukrai ...
. After Giorgi's great grandfather moved to Georgia, his descendants settled in
Tbilisi Tbilisi ( ; ka, თბილისი, ), in some languages still known by its pre-1936 name Tiflis ( ), ( ka, ტფილისი, tr ) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Georgia (country), largest city of Georgia ( ...
and
Telavi Telavi (; ) is the main city and administrative center of the eastern Georgian province of Kakheti. As of the 2017 Census, its population was 19,751. The city is located on the foothills of the Tsiv-Gombori Range at above sea level. History Th ...
.


References


External links

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Statistics at Sportbox.ru
* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Navalovski, Giorgi 1986 births Living people Georgian people of Polish descent Men's footballers from Georgia (country) 21st-century sportsmen from Georgia (country) Men's association football defenders Georgia (country) men's international footballers Expatriate men's footballers from Georgia (country) Expatriate men's footballers in Russia Expatriate men's footballers in Azerbaijan Expatriate men's footballers in Greece Expatriate men's footballers in Belarus Super League Greece players Russian Premier League players FC Dinamo Tbilisi players FC Metalurgi Rustavi players FC Anzhi Makhachkala players Shamakhi FK players FC Volga Nizhny Novgorod players FC Khimki players FC Novokuznetsk players FC SKA-Khabarovsk players FC Tosno players FC Dila Gori players Neftçi PFK players Veria F.C. players FC Dinamo Minsk players FC Dinamo Batumi players Expatriate sportspeople from Georgia (country) in Azerbaijan Footballers from Tbilisi