As part of the infrastructure projects of the Georgian Football Federation, another football centre has opened in Georgia on 18 October in the shape of the Kakha Kaladze Football Centre in Samtredia.
The opening ceremony was attended by GFF President Levan Kobiashvili, the prime minister of Georgia Irakli Kobakhidze, the mayor of Tbilisi Kakha Kaladze, senior manager of the UEFA Hat Trick programme Denis Bastari, and Director of European Member Associations at FIFA, Elkhan Mammadov. Other guests included former Georgian national team players, president of the Latvian Football Federation Vadims Lashenko, as well as representatives of GFF and the local authorities. As part of the opening ceremony, children from the local football school held a training session.
The football centre incorporates a full-size artificial pitch with floodlights and a stand that can accommodate 200 spectators, as well as an administrative building and changing rooms.
The project was co-financed by the FIFA Forward programme, the UEFA Hat Trick programme and the Georgian Football Federation. Maintenance of the infrastructure will be carried out by GFF. The facility will be available to the local football schools and girls’ teams free of charge.
Apart from Samtredia, similar infrastructure has already been built in Poti and the Tbilisi disctricts of Varketili, Gldani, Didi Dighomi, Vake and Nutsubidze Plateau. Another new football centre is currently being built in the Dighomi Massive neighbourhood of Tbilisi.
