Former Premier League star who scored debut goal against Man Utd now set to become president of Georgia

FEW retired footballers bent up their boots and spell connected to go the president of their country.

But that is the vocation way 1 erstwhile Manchester City striker is acceptable to embark on.

Mikheil Kavelashvili spent 2 seasons astatine Maine Road betwixt 1995 and 1997, scoring 3 goals successful 28 appearances.

He is best-known for netting against Manchester United connected his debut successful a 3-2 decision successful April 1996.

Just weeks aft that loss, Man City were relegated from the Premier League.

Kavelashvili near for Swiss broadside Grasshoppers 12 months aboriginal and spent astir of the remainder of his vocation successful Switzerland - speech from a little stint successful Russia.

The forward, who scored 9 times successful 46 caps for his country, retired successful 2006.

A decennary connected from the extremity of his football vocation helium was elected arsenic a subordinate of the Georgian parliament.

And present helium has been nominated by Georgian Dream - the country's ruling enactment - to beryllium their campaigner successful the December 14 elections.

It puts him successful rod presumption to go Georgia's adjacent president - which volition beryllium confirmed by an interior parliamentary assemblage that contains a controlling bulk of Kavelashvili's party.

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This makes it a near-certainty that the ex-Man City antheral volition beryllium elected.

The relation of Georgian president is understood to beryllium mostly a ceremonial one.