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Varlam Kilasonia

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Varlam Kilasonia
Personal information
Date of birth (1967-08-13) 13 August 1967 (age 57)
Height 1.82 m (5 ft 11+12 in)
Position(s) Midfielder/Forward
Team information
Current team
Rustavi (head coach)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1986 FC Metallurg Rustavi 23 (1)
1990 FC Alazani Gurjaani 36 (9)
1991–1992 FC Kakheti Telavi 52 (36)
1992–1995 FC Metalurgi Rustavi 78 (57)
1995–1996 FC Lokomotiv St. Petersburg 55 (39)
1996–1998 FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 16 (1)
1997FC Dnipro-2 Dnipropetrovsk 2 (0)
1998 FC Kuban Krasnodar 9 (1)
1998–1999 FC Lokomotivi Tbilisi 6 (3)
1999–2000 FC Gorda Rustavi 34 (24)
2000–2001 PFC Turan Tovuz 13 (5)
2001–2003 FC Gorda Rustavi 8 (4)
Managerial career
2009–2010 Olimpi Rustavi
2013–2015 Olimpi Rustavi
2015–2016 Sioni Bolnisi
2016–2017 Rustavi
2018 Rustavi
2019–2020 Rustavi
2020–2021 Sioni Bolnisi
2022 Merani Martvili
2023– Rustavi
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Varlam Kilasonia (born 13 August 1967) is a Georgian professional football manager and former player who is the head coach of Liga 2 club Rustavi.

Career

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As a player, Varlam Kilasonia spent 17 years in four different countries.

He started his managerial career at Olimpi Rustavi in 2006.

Twice in a row, in 2016 and 2017, he led the newly created football club Rustavi to championship titles in the second tier, which in the second case implied automatic promotion to Erovnuli Liga.[1]

Following three spells with this club, from July 2020 to June 2021 Kilasonia was in charge of Sioni Bolnisi,[2] where he was named the best manager in the first phase of the season.[3]

In late July 2022 he was announced as head coach of Merani Martvili.[4] After his departure from this club at the end of this season, Kilasonia returned to Rustavi in February 2023. [5]

Personal life

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His brother Giorgi Kilasonia played for the Georgia national football team.

Honours

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References

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  1. ^ ""რუსთავი" ეროვნულ ლიგაში ითამაშებს!". fanebi.com (in Georgian), 23 November 2017.
  2. ^ "კილასონია მთავარი სიონის მწვრთნელი გახდა (in Georgian)". crystalsport.ge, 31 July 2020.
  3. ^ "ვარლამ კილასონია – "ეროვნული ლიგა 2"-ის პირველი წრის საუკეთესო მწვრთნელი". crystalsport.ge, 10 June 2021.
  4. ^ "ვარლამ კილასონია ახალ გუნდში". leadersport.ge (in Georgian), 31 July 2022.
  5. ^ "რუსთავს" ისევ კილასონია გაწვრთნის". 1tv.ge (in Georgian), 16 February 2023.
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