Giorgi Tsintsadze
Giorgi Tsintsadze (Georgian გიორგი ცინცაძე; born February 7, 1986 in Tbilisi, Georgian SSR) is a Georgian professional basketball player. Tsintsadze made his debut as a teenager in the highest Georgian league and moved to Russia in 2003, initially to Russian champions CSKA Moscow PBK. With MBK Dynamo he won the 2006 ULEB Cup. After three seasons at the University of Tartu Tartu rock club affiliated to Estonia, he was active in the season 2009/10 for three clubs in Greece, the Ukraine and Poland. After another season at Tartu Rock in the 2010/11 season he was active for the Georgian national basketball team at the European Championship finals in 2011, when he incurred a torn ACL and paused several months.
Like his born in Tbilisi in the same year compatriot Manutschar Markoischwili debuted Tsintsadze already as a teenager in the highest Georgian league and was committed in 2002 by the master Basco Batumi. For the first time after four championships in a row, they lost the championship in 2003, however, BK Dinamo Tbilisi. For the 2003/ 04 season Tsintsadze was then taken from the Russian champions CSKA Moscow PBK under contract. In the ULEB Euro League 2003 /04 shortly before 18 years of age become Tsintsadze was used in a game at 93:69 clear away win at Olympiakos Piraeus for 10 minutes. In the end it gave in addition to the Russian championship and second place in the Russian Cup competition for third place in the highest European league. For the 2004/ 05 season he moved to Samara for the basketball department of ZSK WWS, but played in the Russian Championship play-offs for Ural Great Perm, where you retired against his former club CSKA in the quarterfinals. In the season 2005/ 06 he was playing in Moscow, this time for runner- MBK dynamo. With this club he won under coach Dušan Ivković the second most important European competition ULEB Cup 2005 / 06, although he did as a 20 -year-old just a few seconds was used in the semi-finals in only six games and at the Final Four tournament. In the Russian championship one was not very successful and already retired from the quarter-finals.
In 2006 he moved within the former Soviet Union to the Estonian Tartu runner- rock, with whom he won the 2007 and 2008 Estonian championship against BC Kalev and lost the cup final against this club. In the 2007 /08 season was pulled at the European level for a victory in the quarter-final series on his former club Ural Great in the Final Four tournament of FIBA Euro Cup, where they after a narrow defeat to eventual champions BK Barons Riga are also in play for third place subject to host Proteas AEL. Tsintsadze was already a month earlier been participants of the last time the played All Star games in this competition at the same location in Limassol Cyprus. In the 2008 /09 season he has been fostered in Tartu Rock by his peers compatriot Viktor Sanikidse, but in the championship final series they lost this time the competitors BC Kalev and retired in the now operating as Euro Challenge FIBA EuroCup in the preliminary round of. For the first time they reached the Final Four of the Baltic Basketball League, after being defeated in the quarter-final series BC Kalev. As host of the tournament finals, they lost the semifinal against Zalgiris Kaunas and took third place. Tsintsadze itself was named MVP of the Estonian league this season.
In the season 2009/10, joined the Greek A1 Ethniki Tsintsadze in to AS Trikala 2000. In December 2009 he left the club again, which then Mark Dickel bringing back what it does not save them from relegation at season's end. With basketball club from Donetsk Tsintsadze was then not very happy because this set in March 2010, the payments, after which he moved to Trefl Sopot in the Polish PLK. In the semifinal series at the Polish Championship is retired against former club Asseco Prokom Sopot Gdynia in the prestige duel. When defending and eventual champions from the neighboring city of Gdynia, which also the quarter-finals of ULEB Euro League 2009/10 reached, former basketball league players such as Ronald Burrell and Jan -Hendrik Jagla were active. In the 2010/11 season he again played for Tartu skirt. The double winners of the preseason again lost the final series against BC Kalev, while the title was defended in Cup competition. After the Georgian national team reached the finals qualifying first time in 2010, succeeded in 2011 in Lithuania European Championship finals after two preliminary round victories of the way into the second round of the twelve best teams. In the first match of the second round they lost by two points to eventual semi-finalists Macedonia and Tsintsadze pulled to a torn ACL, which in ranks of the Georgians was the second major injury-related loss in addition to the single at the time NBA professional Sasa Patschulia. Georgia then lost all further intermediate round matches and retired. For the unsigned Tsintsadze the injury meant several months of break.
In 2012 Tsintsadze launched a comeback in Olimpi from Tbilisi, where he played with his national comrades Giorgi Gamqrelidse. Olimpi reached the final series to the Georgian Championship, where they lost against local rivals and defending champion BC Armia. For the following season Tsintsadze moved to the Ukrainian champions BK Budiwelnik from Kiev.