Tamaz Pertia

Tamaz Pertia

Personal information
Full name	Tamaz Pertia
Date of birth	(1974-12-23) 23 December 1974
Place of birth	Tbilisi, Georgia
Height
Position(s)	Midfielder
Team information
Current team	Skonto Riga (manager)
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1991–1992	Iberia	3	(0)
1991–1992	Guria Lanchkhuti	24	(2)
1993-1994	Metalurgi Rustavi	10	(4)
1994	Guria Lanchkhuti	2	(0)
1994-1995	Metalurgi Rustavi	17	(1)
1995	Temp Shepetivka	4	(0)
1995-1996	Metalurgi Rustavi	28	(1)
1996-1997	Merani-91	10	(2)
1997-1998	FK Ventspils	28	(8)
1998-2000	Sheriff Tiraspol	23	(0)
2000	Dunav Ruse	6	(0)
2001-2002	FK Rīga	27	(2)
2002	Dinaburg	1	(0)
2002-2003	RKB-Arma	24	(2)
2004-2005	Dinaburg	37	(2)
2005-2006	SK Ditton	19	(4)
2006	Lokomotiv Minsk	7	(3)
Managerial career
2008-2009	Dinaburg Daugavpils
2010-2011	Daugava Daugavpils
2011	JFK Olimps/RFS
2012	Skonto-2
2012-	Skonto Riga
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 23 December 2012

Tamaz Pertia (born 23 December 1974) is a former Georgian football midfielder, currently a manager with Skonto Riga in the Latvian Higher League.

Playing career

During his playing career, Pertia has played for Lokomotiv Minsk in the Belarusian Premier League and many clubs from Georgia, Moldova and Latvia.

Coaching career

In 2008 Pertia became the manager of Dinaburg Daugavpils - his previous club. In 2009 he was accused of match fixing and totalizator playing, so Latvian Football Federation eliminated Dinaburg from Latvian Higher League (later on this club was replaced by Daugava Daugavpils). Pertia himself was given lifelong disqualification, that forbid him to play, manage or either take part in any of the competitions organised by LFF.

His disqualification was later canceled and on 2 June 2010 he became the manager of Daugava Daugavpils. Pertia left the club in July 2011 after the change of club's chairman and was succeeded by Leonid Nazarenko.

In August 2011 he accepted an offer to become the manager of JFK Olimps. After the club's relegation from the Latvian Higher League Pertia left the club, becoming the charmain of Skonto Riga youth academy. In 2012 Pertia succeeded Vitālijs Astafjevs as the manager of Skonto-2.

In December 2012, after Marians Pahars had left the club, Pertia accepted an offer to become the manager of Skonto Riga first team.

External links

• Tamaz Pertia at FFU