Place of birth Kyiv, Ukraine Name Sandro Tsveiba Date joined 2014 | Number TBA Height 1.83 m Playing position Role Football player | |
Full name Sandro Akhrikovich Tsveiba Date of birth (1993-09-05) 5 September 1993 (age 22) | ||
Sandro Akhrikovich Tsveiba (Russian: Сандро Ахрикович Цвейба; Abkhaz: Сандро Аҳрик-иҧа Цәеиба; born September 5, 1993 in Kyiv, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian-born Russian football defender who plays for FC Dynamo Saint Petersburg. He is a son of former international Akhrik Tsveiba.
Career
Tsveiba spent 13 seasons in the youth ranks of FC Lokomotiv Moscow, amassing 59 matches and 5 goals between 2011 and 2013 for the "double"/youth team. Not breaking into the club's first team, he left the club and made his debut in the third-tier Russian Second Division for FC Rus Saint Petersburg on 15 July 2013 in a game against FC Spartak Kostroma. After half a season there, he moved again, to the second-tier FC SKA-Energiya Khabarovsk, playing only three matches in the season.
In the summer of 2014, he moved abroad, to the Hungarian side Újpest FC. Despite making the first-team squad in 22 league matches, he only entered the game twice, for a total of 7 minutes in play. his only full match for Újpest FC was in a cup game against FC Ajka, where he made an assist.
In the summer of 2015, he moved abroad again, signing for the Croatian side NK Osijek.
On 17 February 2017, he signed with the Russian Premier League club FC Krylia Sovetov Samara. On 24 June 2017, he signed with FC Dynamo Saint Petersburg.