Aleksandre Chivadze
Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 8 April 1955 | ||
Place of birth | Klukhori, Soviet Union | ||
Height | 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
Position(s) | Defender | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1974–1987 | FC Dinamo Tbilisi | 324 | (44) |
National team | |||
1980–1987 | Soviet Union | 46 | (3) |
Teams managed | |||
1993–1997 | Georgia | ||
2001–2003 | Georgia | ||
2012–2016 | Georgia U-21 | ||
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only |
Olympic medal record | ||
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Representing Soviet Union | ||
Men's Football | ||
1980 Moscow | Team Competition |
Aleksandre Chivadze (Georgian: ალექსანდრე გაბრიელის ძე ჩივაძე; Russian: Александр Габриэлович Чивадзе) (born 8 April 1955 in Klukhori), is a former Georgian and Soviet football player and coach.
Chivadze spent his entire club career at FC Dinamo Tbilisi, playing from 1974 to 1987. He earned 46 caps for the Soviet Union national team and was included in the squads of the 1982 and 1986 World Cups. (In 1982 World Cup he was the captain of the Soviet team).
After retirement from playing he was head-coach of the Georgian national team from 1993 to 1997, and again from 2001 to 2003. On 31 January 2012, he became the head coach of the Georgia national under-21 football team.
Honours[]
- Soviet Top League Champion: 1978
- Soviet Cup Champion: 1976, 1979
- UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Champion: 1981
- Soviet Footballer of the Year: 1980
- U-21 UEFA Championship winner: 1980
External links[]
- Profile in Russian
- Aleksandr Gavrilovich Chivadze – International Appearances
- Aleksandre Chivadze at National-Football-Teams.com
Categories:
- 1955 births
- People from Karachayevsk
- Living people
- Soviet footballers
- Footballers from Georgia (country)
- Football managers from Georgia (country)
- Footballers at the 1980 Summer Olympics
- Olympic bronze medalists for the Soviet Union
- Olympic footballers of the Soviet Union
- 1982 FIFA World Cup players
- 1986 FIFA World Cup players
- Soviet Union international footballers
- Soviet Top League players
- FC Dinamo Tbilisi players
- Georgia national football team managers
- Olympic medalists in football
- Honoured Masters of Sport of the USSR
- Medalists at the 1980 Summer Olympics
- Association football defenders
- Georgia (country) football biography stubs
- Soviet football biography stubs
- Soviet Olympic medalist stubs