Nodar Akhalkatsi
 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Nodar Akhalkatsi | ||
| Date of birth | 2 January 1938 | ||
| Place of birth |
Georgian SSR | ||
| Date of death | 24 January 1998 (aged 60) | ||
| Place of death | Tbilisi, Georgia | ||
| Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | ||
| Position(s) |
Striker | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1957–1959 | SKA Tbilisi | 4 | (0) |
| 1960–1966 |
Lokomotivi Tbilisi | 79 | (19) |
| Total | 83 | (19) | |
| Managerial career | |||
| 1967–1970 |
Lokomotivi Tbilisi | ||
| 1974–1975 | Dinamo Tbilisi (Team chief) | ||
| 1976–1983 | Dinamo Tbilisi | ||
| 1981–1982 | Soviet Union (Assistant) | ||
| 1985–1986 | Dinamo Tbilisi | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Nodar Akhalkatsi (Georgian: ნოდარ ახალკაცი; 2 January 1938 – 24 January 1998) was a professional football manager from Georgia.
Coaching career
Akhalkatsi coached
Aleksandr Chivadze
, all of whom were regular Soviet internationals. The team were renowned for their swashbuckling style of football and attack-minded approach.
The following year, Dinamo entered the
Hamburg
in their next tie.
Two years later, Akhalkatsi enjoyed his finest moment as a manager when he guided Dinamo to victory in the
1981 Cup Winners' Cup final,[1] beating East German outfit Carl Zeiss Jena in Düsseldorf's Rheinstadion. Dinamo had won the 1979 Soviet Cup to gain admittance to the competition, beating FC Dynamo Moscow
on penalties in the final.
Akhalkatsi was a member of USSR manager
Dynamo Kiev's coach Valeriy Lobanovskyi
.
After retirement
In the early 1990s, Akhalkatsi was one of the integral figures in the formation of the Georgian Football Federation after the republic achieved independence from the
USSR. He was the organisation's president from 1990 to 1998.[2]
He died of a heart attack on his way to
Tbilisi Airport, from where he intended to fly to Moscow to participate in the CIS Cup, on 24 January 1998, aged 60.[3] In 2008, for his contributions to association football, Akhalkatsi became the recipient (posthumously) of the FIFA Order of Merit, the highest honour awarded by FIFA.[4][5]
His son, Nodar Akhalkatsi junior, was the president of the Georgian Football Federation from June 2005 to September 2009.[6][7]
Honours
Manager
- Soviet Top League
- Soviet Cup
- Winner (2): 1979
- Runner-up (1): 1980
- Winner (2):
- UEFA Cup Winners' Cup
- Winner (1): 1980–81
Managerial statistics
Source[8]
| Team | From | To | Record | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Win % | |||
| Locomotive Tbilisi | April 1967 | November 1970 | 166 | 65 | 41 | 60 | 174 | 152 | +22 | 39.16 |
| Dinamo Tbilisi | March 1976 | October 1983 | 330 | 160 | 86 | 84 | 495 | 323 | +172 | 48.48 |
| Dinamo Tbilisi | July 1985 | November 1986 | 53 | 19 | 16 | 18 | 63 | 64 | −1 | 35.85 |
| Career totals | 549 | 244 | 143 | 162 | 732 | 539 | +193 | 44.44 | ||
References
- ^ "Dinamo History". FC Dinamo Tbilisi. Archived from the original on 9 September 2004. Retrieved 10 March 2008.
- ^ Georgia: Dzhordania seeks formula to change country's flagging fortunes
- ^ "უახალკაცოდ. წყარო: ლოლაძე, დემიკო. ნოდარ ახალკაცი: ღვაწლი ღირსეული კაცისა. — თბ.: ტექნიკური უნ-ტის გამ-ბა, 1998. — გვ. 22–23". Archived from the original on 7 September 2020. Retrieved 7 September 2020.
გუშინ მოსკოვში ნოდარ ახალკაცი ფიფას გენერალურ მდივანს იოზეფ ბლატერს უნდა შეხვედროდა. სწორედ ამიტომ ნაჩქარევად გაემგზავრა კვირას თბილისიდან. „ვნუკოვოს" აეროპორტში მანქანა ელოდა, თვითმფრინავშივე ცუდად უგრძვნია თავი. მანქანას გეზი დედაქალაქისკენ აუღია. აეროპორტის ავტოინსპექციის გამშვებ პუნქტს გასცილებია თუ არა, ერთი ღრმად ამოუსუნთქავს და... განსვენებული გუშნ, ღამის 9 საათზე მოსკოვი-თბილისის ავიარეისით ჩამოასვენეს. „სარბიელი", 27 იანვარი, 1998
- ^ "FIFA Order of Merit holders" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 September 2015. Retrieved 21 January 2018.
- ^ The Master of Georgian football (rus.)
- ^ Akhalkatsi appointed in Georgia
- ^ Nodar Akhalkatsi Left Georgia
- ^ Nodar Akhalkatsi coaching profile