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Vladimir Guzajew (center) in 1981, with Aleksandre Tschiwadse and Dawit Qipiani

Vladimir Gawrilowitsch Guzajew (Georgian ვლადიმერ გუცაევი; Russian Владимир Гаврилович Гуцаев; born December 21, 1952 in Tbilisi ) is a retired Georgian football player and coach of Ossetian origin. From 2004 to 2008, he was also a deputy in the Parliament of Georgia.

Life and career

Vladimir Guzajew was born in 1952 into a family Ossetia in Tbilisi. For football, he came across several smaller Tiflisser clubs until he moved in 1971 to the big club Dinamo Tbilisi. The striker conquered there a stock position and his new club should remain faithful to the End of career. 1978 Guzajew was with Dinamo Soviet football champions in 1981 you won even the European Cup Winners' Cup, when they defeated FC Carl Zeiss Jena 2-1 in the final. In addition Guzajew was part of the Soviet national team, for whom he played a total of eleven games 1972-1982.

In 1986, he ran for the last time for Dinamo Tbilisi, he then embarked on a coaching career. From 1987 to 1990 he worked as an official at Iberia Tbilisi, 1991, he moved first as an assistant coach and then as head coach, the Cypriot club Anorthosis Famagusta, where he remained until 1994. He then moved to the Russian club Alania Vladikavkaz (then Spartak - Alania Vladikavkaz ), where he remained until 1995. In 1996, he coached the Under-21 Georgia, from 1997 to 1999, finally, the senior team. From 1999 to 2000, he went back again to Alania Vladikavkaz. Most recently he was employed as an instructor in 2001 Torpedo Kutaisi.

Then he went into politics and was sitting 2004-2008 for the National Party government of Mikheil Saakashvili in the United movement Georgian Parliament.

In 2010 he returned to football and was coach of the U19 national team of Georgia and from 2011 youth coach at WIT Georgia Tbilisi. In October 2012, the Russian club Alania Vladikavkaz announced the commitment of Guzajew as sports director.