Revaz Kemoklidze ( ka, რევაზ ქემოკლიძე; born 13 March 1979 in

Tbilisi Tbilisi ( ; ka, თბილისი ), in some languages still known by its pre-1936 name Tiflis ( ), is the capital and the largest city of Georgia, lying on the banks of the Kura River with a population of approximately 1.5 million p ...

) is a

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professional football defender, regarded as one of the best Georgian defenders of his generation.

Club career

His club career started in

Dinamo Tbilisi Dinamo Tbilisi is a sports club from Tbilisi, Georgia. It was founded in 1925. Among its highest honors, is the European trophy earned by its football team which won the Cup Winners' Cup in 1981, beating FC Carl Zeiss Jena of East Germany 2–1 ...

in 1997. Midway in the 2000/01 season he was bought by Torpedo Kutaisi, where he became a key player as they won the league title three years in a row. He then tried his luck in Turkey with

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, but following their relegation he returned to Georgia. Before the 2005/06 season Kemoklidze returned to

International career

In addition, he was called up to the

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, where he was capped 20 times between 2000 and 2004.

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