Avtandil Gogoberidze

Awtandil Gogoberidse Nikolaevich (Russian Автандил Николаевич Гогоберидзе; Georgian ავთანდილ ღოღობერიძე; born August 3, 1922 in Sukhumi, † November 20, 1980 in Tbilisi ) was a Georgian Soviet football player and coach.

Life and career

Awtandil Gogoberidse was born in 1922 in Abkhazia Sukhumi, where he also began the professional soccer games. After some time at the small local club Pischtschewik Sukhumi, he moved in 1940 to Dinamo Sukhumi. Dinamo Sukhumi was not only the biggest club of his hometown, but then played even in the third Soviet football league. Gogoberidse had his football career but then temporarily sidelined due to the Second World War.

After the war he was engaged by the Soviet first division club Dinamo Tbilisi. For Tbilisi, the striker stood until 1961 in a total of 341 games on the court, in which he scored 127 goals. In 1951, he was top scorer in the Soviet league in 1953, he shared the award together with Nikita Simonyan. 1957 Gogoberidse was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor.

Between 1952 and 1954 he ran three times for the Soviet national team. 1961 ended Gogoberidse then his active playing career and moved to the coach office. From 1961 to 1962 he coached Dinamo Tbilisi and was from 1963 to 1965 in the club's management of the Association operates. Then he coached from 1966 to 1967 Locomotive Tbilisi.

1967 Gogoberidse had a serious car accident in which he lost his voice and then completely withdrew from public life. He died in 1980 at age 58 in Tbilisi.