Mikhail Khutsishvili ( ka, მიხეილ ხუციშვილი; born 28 January 1979 in Georgia) is a retired

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striker who last played for Serbian SuperLiga club

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. He unexpectedly retired because of serious heart problems. As of January 2016, he is the general director of

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at FK Vojvodina official website, 8-2-2016, retirved 10-2-2016

Career

Khutsishvili begin his career as senior with Zhineri Zhinvali moving after only a year to the Georgian giant

. He represented in this early period also several other clubs, namely Georgian

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and FC Merani-91 Tbilisi, bur also Moldovan

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. In 1997 he played two games for Georgian U18 national team. In 2002, he moved to Greece where he played one season with

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and another half season with

PAS Giannina F.C. PAS Giannina Football Club ( el, ΠΑΕ ΠΑΣ Γιάννινα 1966), or with its full name Panepirotikos Athlitikos Syllogos Giannina ( el, Πανηπειρωτικός Αθλητικός Σύλλογος Γιάννινα, ''Panepirotic Athleti ...

By January 2004 he returned to Georgia this time to play with FC Torpedo Kutaisi but after six months he moved to Azerbaijan signing with

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. In January FC Sioni Bolnisi brought him back to Georgia what proved to be a good move since he ended up as part of Sioni's 2005–06 championship winning team. This was followed by the return to his former club

in summer 2006. He stayed with Dinamo 2 seasons winning another Georgian championship in 2007–08 and being in that same season the

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topscorer. In summer 2008 he moved to Azerbaijani

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but after only 6 months Serbian SuperLiga club

offered him a contract. In summer 2009 he was joined in Vojvodina by another Georgian international footballer,

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, but Khutsishvili started having health problems that season and after being diagnosticated with heart problems he ended abandoning his playing career in 2010. After retiring he became as head scout of Vojvodina for 6 month. Next half year he became sports director of Dila Gori and then became general director of

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for four years before moving in autumn 2015 to hold the same direction position at Georgian giants

Honours

Club

*Sioni Bolnisi ** Umaglesi Liga (1): 2005–06 *Dinamo Tbilisi ** Umaglesi Liga (2): 1997–98,Georgia – Championship winning teams
at RSSSF 2007–08

Individual

* Umaglesi Liga Top Scorer (1): 2007–08

References

External links

*
Mikheil Khutsishvili
at Srbijafudbal.com * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Khutsishvili, Mikheil 1979 births Living people Footballers from Tbilisi Footballers from Georgia (country) Expatriate footballers from Georgia (country) Association football forwards FC Dinamo Tbilisi players FC Lokomotivi Tbilisi players FC Torpedo Kutaisi players FC Sioni Bolnisi players FC Sheriff Tiraspol players Expatriate footballers in Moldova Expatriate sportspeople from Georgia (country) in Moldova Kalamata F.C. players PAS Giannina F.C. players Expatriate footballers in Greece AZAL PFK players Expatriate footballers in Azerbaijan FK Vojvodina players Erovnuli Liga players Serbian SuperLiga players Moldovan Super Liga players Expatriate footballers in Serbia Expatriate sportspeople from Georgia (country) in Azerbaijan