Manuchar Markoishvili

Manuchar Markoishvili

Markoishvili with Galatasaray, in October 2013.
Free agent
Position	Small forward / Shooting guard
Personal information
Born	(1986-11-17) November 17, 1986 (age 30) Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, USSR
Nationality	Georgian
Listed height	6 ft 5.75 in (1.97 m)
Listed weight	210 lb (95 kg)
Career information
NBA draft	2007 / Undrafted
Playing career	2000–present
Career history
2000–2002	Batumi
2002–2004	Benetton Treviso
2004	Mitteldeutscher
2004–2007	Union Olimpija
2007–2009	Kiev
2009–2013	Pallacanestro Cantù
2013–2014	Galatasaray
2014–2015	CSKA Moscow
2015–2016	Darüşşafaka
Career highlights and awards
VTB United League champion (2015) Turkish League champion (2013) FIBA Europe Cup champion (2004) Italian Supercup winner (2012) Italian Supercup MVP (2012) Adriatic League All-Star (2007) 2× Slovenian League champion (2005–2006) 2× Slovenian Cup winner (2005–2006) Italian League champion (2003) Italian Cup winner (2003) 2× Georgian Superliga champion (2001–2002)

Manuchar "Manu" Markoishvili (Georgian: მანუჩარ მარკოიშვილი, born November 17, 1986) is a Georgian professional basketball player who last played for Darüşşafaka of the Turkish Basketball Super League.

Markoishvili as a young basketball player was very talented, and he turned into a professional basketball player in Georgia before he graduated from high school. He played for Basco Batumi in the 2001–02 season. In Basco, he distinguished himself, even though he was the youngest player of the team.

Markoishvili was scouted and recruited by the Italian League club Benetton Treviso in 2003. In 2004, he was loaned to Mitteldeutscher of the German League for the season, and with them he won the FIBA Europe Cup.

In 2004, he moved to the Slovenian club Olimpija Ljubljana. He entered the 2007 NBA Draft, but he went undrafted. In 2007, he was transferred to the Ukrainian League club BC Kiev. From 2009 to 2013, he played with Pallacanestro Cantù of the Italian League.

On January 29, 2013, Markoishvili signed with the Turkish team Galatasaray, for the rest of the 2013–14 season.

On July 11, 2014, Markoishvili signed a two-year contract with the Russian team CSKA Moscow. In his first season with the team, CSKA Moscow won the 2014–15 VTB United League season, after eliminating Khimki, with a 3–0 series sweep in the league's playoff finals. On July 24, 2015, he parted ways with CSKA.