Sergo Kutivadze

Sergei " Sergo " Kutiwadse Ivanovich (Russian: Сергей Иванович Кутивадзе; Georgian სერგო ივანის ძე კუტივაძე; born October 16, 1944 in Alma- Ata, Kazakh SSR ) is a former Soviet- Georgian football player and coach.

Life and career

Sergei Kutiwadse was born in 1944 in a Georgian family in Alma- Ata. For professional football, he came in 1962 when he first ran aground for the first team of Torpedo Kutaisi and the rise of managed directly with the club in his first season in the first Soviet league. In 1965 he had his first and only appearance in the Soviet national team in a friendly match against Yugoslavia.

1967 Kutiwadse was obliged Dinamo Tbilisi. Dinamo he remained until his career end in 1973. Dinamo Tbilisi has always been one of the contenders in the league, in the Soviet football trophy you stood in 1970 even in the finals, but was eliminated by FK Dynamo Moscow, a title could win Kutiwadse not.

After his time as an active player, he worked from 1974 to 1984, first as an assistant coach at Dinamo Tbilisi and then moved to the club line. In 1984 he was again assistant coach in Tbilisi. After the independence of Georgia took Kutiwadse 1994-1995 Dinamo Tbilisi as head coach in two seasons, the club Georgian champion. In 1997, he coached Torpedo Kutaisi, the club where he started his career