Sandro Akhrikovich Tsveiba (; ; born 5 September 1993) is a former professional

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who played as a

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. Born in Ukraine, he represented Russia internationally at youth levels. He is a son of former international

Akhrik Tsveiba Akhrik Sokratovich Tsveiba (; born 10 September 1966) is a former professional footballer. At international level, he represented Soviet Union, CIS, Ukraine and Russia national teams. Club career Born in Gudauta, Tsveiba began playing youth ...

Career

Tsveiba spent 13 seasons in the youth ranks of

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, amassing 59 matches and 5 goals between 2011 and 2013 for the "double"/youth team. Not breaking into the club's first team, he left the club and made his debut in the third-tier

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for Rus Saint Petersburg on 15 July 2013 in a game against Spartak Kostroma. After half a season there, he moved again, to the second-tier SKA-Energiya Khabarovsk, playing only three matches in the season. In the summer of 2014, he moved abroad, to the Hungarian side

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. Despite making the first-team squad in 22 league matches, he only entered the game twice, for a total of seven minutes in play. his only full match for Újpest was in a cup game against

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, where he made an assist. In the summer of 2015, he moved abroad again, signing for the Croatian side

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. On 17 February 2017, he signed with

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club

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. On 24 June 2017, he signed with Dynamo Saint Petersburg. On 19 July 2019, he signed with Swedish club

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until the end of 2019.

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Career summary by sportbox.ru
* * * 1993 births Footballers from Kyiv Living people Russian men's footballers Russia men's youth international footballers Russia men's under-21 international footballers Men's association football defenders Russian people of Abkhazian descent Ukrainian people of Abkhazian descent Russian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Hungary Expatriate men's footballers in Croatia Expatriate men's footballers in Kazakhstan Expatriate men's footballers in Sweden Expatriate men's footballers in Belarus Nemzeti Bajnokság I players Kazakhstan Premier League players Allsvenskan players Újpest FC players FC SKA-Khabarovsk players FC Aktobe players FC Dynamo Saint Petersburg players FC Lokomotiv Moscow players NK Osijek players FC Fakel Voronezh players PFC Krylia Sovetov Samara players AFC Eskilstuna players FC Isloch Minsk Raion players Russian expatriate sportspeople in Hungary Russian expatriate sportspeople in Croatia Russian expatriate sportspeople in Kazakhstan Russian expatriate sportspeople in Belarus Russian expatriate sportspeople in Sweden 21st-century Russian sportsmen {{Russia-footy-defender-1993-stub