Kakhi Asatiani ( ka, კახი ასათიანი, 1 January 1947 – 20 November 2002) was a
Georgian association football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...
player and manager.
Career
During his career he played for
FC Dinamo Tbilisi
FC Dinamo Tbilisi ( ka, დინამო თბილისი, ) is a Georgian professional football club based in Tbilisi, Georgia, that competes in the Erovnuli Liga, the top flight of Georgian football.
Dinamo Tbilisi was one of the mos ...
(1965–1975), Asatiani earned 16 caps for the
USSR national football team
The Soviet Union national football team ( rus, сбо́рная СССР по футбо́лу, r=sbórnaya SSSR po futbólu) was the national football team of the former Soviet Union.
After the breakup of the Union the team was transformed i ...
, and participated in
UEFA Euro 1968
The 1968 UEFA European Football Championship final tournament was held in Italy. This was the third UEFA European Championship, an event held every four years and organised by UEFA. The final tournament took place between 5 and 10 June 1968.
It ...
and the
1970 FIFA World Cup. At the 1970 World Cup, he was recognized as the most graceful player of the championship. He coached FC Dinamo Tbilisi between 1978 and 1982, and became the team's manager in 1987. In the 1990s, he briefly served as the chairman of the Georgian Sport Department. Subsequently, he was involved in private business and became a Vice-President of the
Airzena airline. He was shot to death by unknown assailants in his own car on
Barnovi street, near his home, in
Tbilisi
Tbilisi ( ; ka, თბილისი ), in some languages still known by its pre-1936 name Tiflis ( ), is the capital and the largest city of Georgia, lying on the banks of the Kura River with a population of approximately 1.5 million p ...
on 20 November 2002.
Vice-President of Georgian Air Company Shot
''Civil Georgia'', 21 November 2002. Accessed on 26 April 2008.
References
External links
Kakhi Asatiani • Articles on FC Dinamo Tbilisi Official Website
Kakhi Asatiani • Articles on sovsport.ru
Kakhi Asatiani • Articles on sport-express.ru
Kakhi Asatiani • Profile on allfutbolist.ru
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Kakhi Asatiani • La primera tarjeta amarilla de la Historia
1947 births
2002 deaths
People from Telavi
Svan people
Footballers from Georgia (country)
Businesspeople from Georgia (country)
Soviet footballers
Soviet Union international footballers
Soviet Top League players
FC Dinamo Tbilisi players
FC Dinamo Tbilisi managers
UEFA Euro 1968 players
1970 FIFA World Cup players
Association football midfielders
Football managers from Georgia (country)
Burials in Georgia (country)
20th-century businesspeople
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