Shota Arveladze Sports manager
Shota Arveladze (Georgian: შოთა არველაძე; born 22 February 1973) is a former Georgian professional football player and currently the manager of Kasımpaşa SK of the Turkish Super Lig. He is Georgia’s all-time top scorer with 291 goals in his 410 league games for his clubs and 26 goals during his 61 games on the national team.Arveladze played at Dinamo Tbilisi, Trabzonspor, and Ajax, and finished at least one season as the top goal scorer at all three. When he led Trabzonspor in goals in 1995–96, he also led the Süper Lig, making him the second non-Turk to date to lead that league in goals after Tarik Hodžić 1983–84. He is recorded as "most loved foreign player" for Trabzonspor supporters. Arveladze joined Rangers from Ajax for £2 million in 2001, and was part of the squad that won the domestic treble in 2002–03 and the double in 2004–05. He departed for Dutch side AZ on a free transfer in 2004–05. He was also a regular in the Georgian national team, and was the nation's all-time leading scorer. In 1993 he scored an effective first Euro Tournament goal in the history of independent Georgian Football in the match against Linfield, Northern Ireland.His 27 goals scored in UEFA Cup competition ranks him 5th in the tournament's history. Fast on his feet, extraordinarily quick decision-making, an eye for goal, great technique and leadership were among his main qualities. He has the best strike record of independent Georgian Football, he was nominated as the best player of Georgia and in addition he was nominated as the best player by the Georgian Professional Football league survey. After retiring from football as a player, Arveladze was appointed in July 2008 as assistant manager of AZ under head coach Louis van Gaal, and in the 2010–11 season, he took up his first post as manager at Turkish side Kayserispor. Since 2012, Arveladze is managing Istanbul-based Kasımpaşa SK.
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