Givi Chokheli

Givi Chokheli
Personal information
Full name	Givi Dmitriyevich Chokheli
Date of birth	27 June 1937
Place of birth	USSR
Date of death	25 February 1994 (aged 56)
Place of death	Tbilisi, Georgia
Height	1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s)	Defender
Senior career*
Years	Team
1956	Nadikvari Telavi
1956–1965	Dinamo Tbilisi
International career
1960–1962	USSR
Managerial career
1966–1968	Dinamo Tbilisi (assistant)
1969–1970	Dinamo Tbilisi
1971–1972	Dinamo Tbilisi (assistant)
1974	Dinamo Tbilisi
Medal record
Representing Soviet Union
UEFA European Championship
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Givi Dmitriyevich Chokheli (Georgian: გივი ჩოხელი; Russian: Гиви Дмитриевич Чохели) (27 June 1937 in Telavi – 25 February 1994 in Tbilisi) was a Georgian football defender.^[1]

Chokheli played most of his career for

Master of Sport of the USSR

in 1959.

He played for

1960 UEFA European Football Championship, where the Soviet Union won the gold medal. The Soviet back line was anchored by the famous trio of Chokheli, Anatoli Maslyonkin, and Anatoly Krutikov in the early 1960s.^[1]

The statue of Chokheli in front of Municipal Stadium, Telavi.

Telavi's Municipal Stadium features a statue of Chokheli in front of it.

References

^ ^a ^b "Футбольный феномен 1937-го (The 1937 Football Phenomenon, Part I)" (in Russian). The Evening, Moscow. 23 August 2007. Archived from the original on 17 April 2013. Retrieved 11 July 2008.

External links

Imedi: On the 70th Birthday of Chokheli Archived 26 December 2018 at the Wayback Machine (in Georgian)
RussiaTeam biography (in Russian)

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[evening-1] "Футбольный феномен 1937-го (The 1937 Football Phenomenon, Part I)" (in Russian). The Evening, Moscow. 23 August 2007. Archived from the original on 17 April 2013. Retrieved 11 July 2008.

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