Georgiy Dzhikiya

Georgy Jikia is known for his sports career. Since December 2016, the footballer has been the defender of the Moscow club "Spartak", and since 2017 - the defender of the Russian national team. At the beginning of his career, the athlete played in the Second Division, but dedication and work on skill helped him to get into the Premier League. Before joining Spartak Moscow, he played 142 games in total and scored 8 goals.

Georgy Tamazovich Dzhikia was born in Moscow on November 21, 1993. The footballer's dad is an individual entrepreneur, and his mother is a housewife. In the mid-90s, the family settled in Balashikha.

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George's father brought the boy to the football section and invited his son to try his hand. The first coach of Dzhikia was Sergey Aleksandrovich Mikheev. The boy has been playing football since he was 7 years old at the “Victoria” sports school. The section was not specially chosen, it just turned out to be the closest to the house.

After several years of training, the boy moved to Lokomotiv-Perovo and from the age of 10 he trained there. There are no professional footballers in George's family, but both parents are long-time football fans.

While studying at the Perovsk branch of the Lokomotiv football school, the young man played in various positions. At first he stood in the center, but over time he began to shift closer to the defense. Dzhikia signed the first professional contract in his sports biography with the Lokomotiv-2 club in 2011. The coach of the team at that time was Evgeny Kharlachev. He initiated the invitation of Jikia to Loko-2.

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Georgy spent 3 seasons playing for Lokomotiv-2 in the Second Division. In one interview, the footballer admitted that he considers the meeting with the Smolensk team Dnipro in the Russian Cup to be the first serious match at the senior level. The victory this time brought Muscovites a penalty shootout, which decided the outcome of the match after 120 minutes of fierce struggle.

Jikia could have been a part of Lokomotiv, the guy was once called to the training camp, but failed to gain a foothold. The reason was the change of the coach. Georgy was invited to the training camp by Slaven Bilich, who followed the promising Loko-2 players, hoping to strengthen the core team at their expense. However, in 2013, the Croat was fired from his post as Lokomotiv coach, just at the moment when he was looking closely at the young candidates. The new coach Leonid Kuchuk was not interested in Jikia.

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Six months before the expiration of the contract, Georgy went to finish the season at Spartak-Nalchik, where he successfully played 8 matches. The player was not offered a new agreement, due to financial difficulties Lokomotiv-2 was disbanded. During this period, Dzhikia received an offer to continue his career from Evgeny Kharlachev and left for Dzerzhinsk to play for Chemist.

In 2015, Georgy signed a 3-year contract with the football club Amkar. It is interesting that the first goal for the Perm club Jikia scored to the Lokomotiv team, and he became victorious and influenced the outcome of the match.

In December 2016, Jikia moved to Spartak, having signed a cooperation agreement with the club for 4.5 years. The amount of the player's transfer, according to the German football website Transfermarkt ("Transfermarkt"), is close to € 2.5 million, for this reason Georgy was included in the list of the top ten RFPL players in 2016.

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The executive director of Perm "Amkar" Denis Maslov noted that Georgiy wanted to get several famous football clubs at once. Jikia wanted to play in Spartak and did not seriously consider other options. Having accepted the offer of Muscovites, the footballer got a chance to return to his hometown.

Georgy's nationality has become one of the reasons why he constantly receives offers from Georgian football clubs. The athlete has already had a choice between membership in the Russian national team or a team in Georgia.

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As a result, the fullback chose the Russian team. The footballer of the Georgian national team, Alexander Iashvili, shared in an interview that Jikia could easily come and get a Georgian passport in one day. But the day before, the athlete called and said that he had changed his mind. The media wrote that George set conditions, but this was not the case. Iashvili asked to stop speculation against Jikia.

After the Russian championship 2016/2017, the head coach of the national team Stanislav Cherchesov called Georgy Dzhikia to the main team. The footballer's debut for the national team took place on June 5, 2017 in a match against the Hungarians. In the Confederations Cup, fullback played 3 matches without substitutions - with Mexico, New Zealand and Portugal. In a duel with the latter, he is punished with a yellow card.

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Georgy Dzhikia on the eve of the 2017 Confederations Cup was included in the list of three talented Russian footballers. At the end of November 2017, the defender extended his contract with FC Spartak until 2022. The footballer is number 14. This number has no sacred meaning in the life of Jikia. Once he chose a room from the available ones and never changed. The athlete admitted that after many years of wearing the uniform, the number 14 has become his favorite.

On January 13, 2018, the team's press service instructed Jikia to lead the club's Twitter account. As a result, a video appeared on the microblog in which the defender filmed the training of the Brazilian footballers of Spartak, calling his colleagues “chocolates”. After that, a number of Western media outraged and considered this formulation racist. The team's press office apologized and removed the controversial video.

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Instead, a video was posted on the page in which the midfielder of the Moscow club Fernando Lucas Martins said in broken Russian that there was no racism in the team. The young man called "Spartak" a family. In the same month, George entered the field against the Chinese team Shanghai SIPG. During the match, the young man was injured: a rupture of the cruciate ligaments of the left knee joint.

The head of the club's medical department said in an interview that the footballer's recovery went well. The player soon began training, but at one time was limited to contact football. This unfortunate injury did not allow the defender to speak at the 2018 World Cup. In April, Georgy shared that he hoped to get better for the world championship, but it did not work out. The young man returned to training only in the general group of the club team.

The personal life of Georgy Jikia is hidden from prying eyes. In one interview, the athlete mentioned that he has a brother, with whom they started playing football together in childhood. Later it became known that, in addition to George, two more brothers were born in the family. The elder works as a dentist, the younger one appeared in 2006.

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George knows Georgian and Megrelian languages, loves to listen to a variety of music and watch movies. According to the footballer, he does not give preference to certain genres, he listens and watches everything.

A group on the VKontakte social network is dedicated to George, where you can find photos and videos that capture the highlights of a football player's sports career. The athlete himself maintains an officially verified account on Instagram. There, the footballer shares training pictures and personal photos with subscribers.

A Georgian from Balashikha is a nickname that Jikia received because of his nationality. The footballer has many relatives in Tbilisi, but a young man was born and raised in Moscow. In reality, the defender of the Russian national team is an ethnic Mingrelian. The guy communicates with relatives in two languages: Russian and Mingrelian.

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The first salary of a football player was 15 thousand rubles. Half of this money went to Georgy for daily travel expenses, the rest he spent on trips to fast food restaurants. Jikia recalls this detail of her biography with a smile. In an interview, the athlete admitted that he does not think about what to spend money on, and more often than not he simply saves the funds received. George calls a car his most expensive purchase. Now he drives a Range Rover Vogue, which costs 9 million rubles.

When Georgy was 14 years old, he and his team went to the training camp in Dagomys. During the match, one goalkeeper had his nose broken, and the other was unable to enter the field due to the high temperature. Jikia put on the goalkeeper's gloves and took a seat at the goal for the team to finish the match. Djik is a mountain leopard. According to one version, the player's surname is a direct indication that the player's ancestors were brave warriors. Georgy was called Dzhik in Perm "Amkar".

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In an interview, Jikia admitted that he would approach the choice of a wife with all seriousness - the football player dreams of tying the knot for life and creating a strong family, raising children. Jikia does not hide the fact that she follows Caucasian traditions in choosing a bride: a girl should be able to cook well and be hospitable.

It will never be boring in a football player's house. Endowed with a welcoming character, George is always ready to provide a warm welcome to his guests. Being very tall (188 cm and weighing 87 kg), Jikia sees a long-legged brunette next to her, who at the same time is endowed with a sense of tact and a calm disposition.

Often Djikia demonstrates his hot temper of a Caucasian on the field. At the end of 2018, in the final of the game between Spanish Villarreal and Moscow Spartak, which took place as part of the UEFA Europa League series of matches, Georgy did not hold back his emotions. The reason for this was the gross violation of the Spanish player Jaume Costa, who knocked down the midfielder of Spartak and the Georgian national team Jano Ananidze.

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After the incident, in which the Spaniard became the owner of the red card, Jikia ran up to him and hit his opponent in the chest. The fight was prevented by fellow players. George was lucky - he received only a warning.

Jikia loves to talk to reporters and is famous for her wit. In the spring of 2019, as part of the Spartak club project One Day, Georgy performed an original trick - from the roof of the Otkrytie Arena club stadium, he scored a goal on the football field. And he did it twice. The footballer also took part in the filming of the program "Nedetskiy Vopros", which is broadcast on the YouTube channel of FC "Spartak-Moscow", and gave an interview to blogger Karen Adamyan of the "oSporte TV" channel.

In 2019, the athlete as part of the Russian national team has already played in the qualifying matches of the European Championship 2020 against the teams of Belgium, Kazakhstan and San Marino. During the last game, Dzhikia did not leave the field until the end of the match, and his colleague from Spartak, midfielder Roman Zobnin, was replaced in the 72nd minute.

The Russian team left the game as the winner with a score of 9: 0. Football skeptics were skeptical about such a victory - the San Marino team is considered the worst team in the opinion of the international football organization FIFA. But the Russian players are inspired by the victory - it was important for the players to earn the maximum points per match, which they did.

2017 - winner of the RFU prize "33 best players of the season" 2017 - gold medalist of the Russian football championship 2017 - winner of the Russian Super Cup 2018 - bronze medalist of the Russian football championship

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