Mate Vatsadze
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Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 17 December 1988 | ||
Place of birth | Tbilisi, Georgia | ||
Height | Script error: No such module "person height". | ||
Position(s) | Forward | ||
Team information | |||
Current team
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AGF Aarhus | ||
Number | 21 | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2004–2008 | Dinamo-2 Tbilisi | 53 | (21) |
2005–2010 | Dinamo Tbilisi | 96 | (42) |
2011–2012 | Volga Nizhny Novgorod | 20 | (1) |
2012 | Dila Gori | 15 | (13) |
2012– | AGF Aarhus | 72 | (29) |
International career‡ | |||
2008-2010 | Georgia U21 | 5 | (1) |
2009- | Georgia | 13 | (4) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 7 November 2015 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 7 November 2015 |
Mate Vatsadze (born 17 December 1988) is Georgian football player. He is a forward and currently plays for the Danish Superliga side AGF Aarhus.
Playing career
Vatsadze started his professional career with FC Dinamo Tbilisi, playing 96 games and scoring 42 goals for the first team between 2005 and 2010, before moving to FC Volga Nizhny Novgorod to play in the Russian Premier League in 2011. While playing in Russia, he was called up for the Georgia national football team, to play in the Euro 2012 qualifying matches against Croatia and Israel, but he was not able to get the required visa.[1] So he soon returned to Georgia to join Dila Gori at the end of the season. On 2 September 2012 he signed a 3½-year contract with Danish Superliga side AGF
Vatsadze was discovered by AGF in the 2012–13 Europa League Second qualifying round where he impressed by scoring three goals for Dila Gori against AGF and went on to score twice in the Third qualifying round away leg in Cyprus against Anorthosis, to help Dila Gori progress to the Play-off round. Vatsadze also scored twice in the 2010–11 UEFA Europa League Second qualifying round, helping Dinamo Tbilisi to eliminate Swedish Gefle IF, when they managed to beat them both home and away. He also scored a goal for Dinamo Tbilisi in the 2009–10 UEFA Europa League Third qualifying round, in the away leg against Red Star Belgrade.
References
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External links
- (English) Mate Vatsadze on Soccerway
- (Danish) Mate Vatsadze on AGF
- (Danish) Official Danish Superliga stats
- (English) Player profile at uefa.com
- Use dmy dates from July 2011
- Pages with broken file links
- Pages using infobox football biography with height issues
- Articles with Danish-language external links
- 1988 births
- Living people
- Footballers from Georgia (country)
- Georgia (country) international footballers
- Georgia (country) under-21 international footballers
- Association football forwards
- FC Dinamo Tbilisi players
- Expatriate footballers from Georgia (country)
- Expatriate footballers in Russia
- FC Volga Nizhny Novgorod players
- Russian Football Premier League players
- Aarhus Gymnastikforening players
- Danish Superliga players
- Expatriate footballers in Denmark