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■ GEORGIA

Since the break-up of the Soviet Union, Georgia has produced a handful of exciting players – from Georgi Kinkladze at Manchester City, to Kakha Kaladze at Milan and Shota Arveladze at Ajax and Rangers – but the current generation of breakthrough talent is undoubtedly the most exciting.

The current national team has only lost one of their last12 matches – a friendly defeat to Morocco ahead of the World Cup – and won five out of six games in their Nations League campaign to earn promotion to League B, which will move them a step closer to reaching their first-ever major tournament. With the national team’s average age just 26.4 years old, this is only the beginning; Georgia has a team for the future, and evidence of that can be found at Dinamo Tbilisi.

The club are the current national champions, lifting the title in December with a squad that had an average age

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