Valerian Gvilia
footballer
Valerian "Vako" Gvilia (Georgian: ვალერიან "ვაკო" გვილია, pronounced [valeɾian vakʼo ɡʷilia]; Ukrainian: Валеріане Ярославович Гвілія; born 24 May 1994) is a Georgian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Erovnuli Liga club Dinamo Tbilisi. He also has Ukrainian citizenship. Besides Ukraine, he has played in Belarus, Switzerland, Poland and Georgia.
Club career
Gvilia is product of youth team system Metalurh Zaporizhya. He made his Ukrainian Premier League debut for Metalurh entering as a second time playing against Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk on 15 August 2014. Gvilia signed a contract with Belarusian club BATE Borisov in early July 2016.
In January 2018, Gvilia signed a three-year deal with Swiss Super League side Luzern.
From 2019 untl 2021, he played for Polish side Legia Warsaw, with whom he won two national championships.
On 31 August 2021, he was announced as a player of the Polish vice-champion, Raków Częstochowa. On 30 January 2023, having not made an appearance for the club since late August 2022, he terminated his contract by mutual consent.
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