Kobiashvili Levan

Levan Kobiashvili (b. July 10, 1977, Tbilisi), athlete (football, defender, midfielder), winner of the UEFA Intertoto (2003–2004) and German League Cups (2006), two-time Bundesliga vice-champion (2005, 2007). He graduated from the football school “Avaza”, played for clubs in Georgia, the Russian Federation and Germany: four-time champion of Georgia (1995, 1996, 1997, 1998) and three-time winner of the Cup (1996–1998), two-time winner of the Georgian Super Cup (1996–1997). He has played a record number of (100) matches (12 goals) for the Georgian national team. Kobiashvili was distinguished by his efficiency, sophisticated technique, dribbling, and good passing. Kobiashvili is in second place among non-German footballers in the number of matches played in the Bundesliga (351 matches, 32 goals). He was Georgian Footballer of the Year in 2000, 2005 and 2011. He was the manager of the Hertha BSC Football Academy (2014), the mayor of the Olympic Village of the European Youth Olympic Festival – “Tbilisi 2015” (2015), the president of the Georgian Football Federation (2015). From 2016, he was a member of the Board of the Georgian Football Development Fund.

Kobiashvili was a member of the Parliament of Georgia of two convocations from the party “Georgian Dream – Democratic Georgia” (2016, 2020).