Ramaz Shengelia

Ramaz Shengelia (Georgian: რამაზ შენგელია; 1 January 1957 – 21 June 2012[1]) was a Georgian and Soviet football player.

Ramaz Shengelia
Personal information
Date of birth (1957-01-01)1 January 1957
Place of birth Kutaisi, Georgian SSR
Date of death 21 June 2012(2012-06-21) (aged 55)
Place of death Tbilisi, Georgia
Height 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Position(s) Striker
Youth career
1968–1973 Torpedo Kutaisi
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1973–1976 Torpedo Kutaisi 75 (29)
1977–1988 Dinamo Tbilisi 283 (120)
1989 IFK Holmsund 13 (2)
Total 371 (151)
National team
1976–1980 Soviet Union U21 13 (9)
1979–1983 Soviet Union 26 (10)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Club career

Born in Kutaisi, Shengelia started career in his hometown club Torpedo Kutaisi in 1968. [2] He spent four seasons for the club, scoring 29 goals in 75 games in the Soviet First League. Shengelia became the top scorer of the club twice. [2]

After the successful spell in the second strongest team in Georgian SSR, he was invited to Dinamo Tbilisi in 1977. The head coach of the Tbilisi-based club, Nodar Akhalkatsi arrived to Kutaisi in order to monitor the performance of Shengelia and his other teammate Tamaz Kostava. [2] Both of them eventually signed for Dinamo for the following season.

During the debut years, Shengelia has to compete for the starting place with Revaz Chelebadze. [2] However, Shengelia found his place in the team and became the top scorer of the club during 1978 season. Dinamo won the championship for the second time in history, while Shengelia was nominated as Soviet Footballer of the Year ahead of Oleg Blokhin (Dynamo Kyiv) and Georgi Yartsev (Spartak Moscow). [3]

The season of 1981 was the most successful for Shengelia. Dinamo won UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, after defeating Carl Zeiss Jena in the final. Shengelia scored 4 goals during the tournament. At the end of the season he finished 7th in Ballon d'Or nominees. [4] Two of his teammates were also the nominees for the title, as Aleksandre Chivadze finished 8th, while David Kipiani was 11th in the final ranking. Shengelia was again named Soviet Footballer of the Year in 1981.

During the following season, Dinamo lost in the semifinal of UEFA Cup Winners' Cup to Standard Liège. However, Shengelia became the topscorer of the tournament with 6 goals. [2]

Shengelia retired from football in 1988, but he came out of retirement a year later, joining the Swedish club IFK Holmsund with his teammate Tengiz Sulakvelidze. [2] Holmsund competed in the second tier of the championship. During the only season with the club, Shengelia scored 2 goals in 13 appearances.

International career

He played in 26 games scoring 10 goals for the Soviet Union national football team, including performance at the 1982 FIFA World Cup (5 matches, 1 goal).[5] He also represented his country in 5 FIFA World Cup qualification matches.[6]

Later years

After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Shengelia worked in Georgian national football team as an assistant of Aleksandre Chivadze. Later was invited to Georgian Football Federation by his former coach and then-president of the federation Nodar Akhalkatsi. [2]

Shengelia died of a brain haemorrhage in Tbilisi in June 2012, at the age of 55. [7] [8]

The football stadium in his hometown Kutaisi is named after him.

Club career statistics

Source [9]

Club Season League Cup Europe1 Other2 Total
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Torpedo Kutaisi 1973 1000——10
1974 14200——142
1975 331510——3415
1976 271200——2712
Total 752910−−−−7629
Dinamo Tbilisi 1977 2451052—297
1978 28156142—3818
1979 2988341—4112
1980 32176142—4220
1981 31231197—4132
1982 26162162—3419
1983 27111000—2811
1984 2993200—3211
1985 2261000—236
1986 300000—30
1987 2794363213916
1988 511000—61
Total 2831203412381921357152
Holmsund 1989 1320000—132
Total 1320000−−132
Career totals 3711513512372021445184
1Includes UEFA European Cup, UEFA Cup and UEFA Cup Winners' Cup.
2Includes other competitive competition USSR Federation Cup.

International goals

[10]

Score and results list Soviet Union's goal tally first.
#DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
1.28 March 1979Lokomotiv Republican Sports Complex, Simferopol Bulgaria2–03–1Friendly
2.19 April 1979Dinamo Stadium, Tbilisi Sweden1–02–0Friendly
3.5 May 1979Central Lenin Stadium, Moscow Czechoslovakia2–03–0Friendly
4.19 May 1979Dinamo Stadium, Tbilisi Hungary2–22–2Euro 1980 qualifying
5.23 September 1981Central Lenin Stadium, Moscow Turkey4–04–0World Cup 1982 qualifying
6.7 October 1981Atatürk Stadium, Izmir Turkey0–10–3World Cup 1982 qualifying
7. 28 October 1981Dinamo Stadium, Tbilisi Czechoslovakia1–02–0World Cup 1982 qualifying
8. 2–0
9.5 May 1982Central Lenin Stadium, Moscow East Germany1–01–0Friendly
10.22 June 1982Estadio La Rosaleda, Málaga Scotland2–12–2World Cup 1982

Titles

Club

Dinamo Tbilisi

International

Individual

Ballon d'Or

References
  1. Скончался легендарный грузинский футболист Рамаз Шенгелия
  2. "Career in quotes: Ramaz Shengelia". Ministry of Sport and Youth Affairs of Georgia. 17 January 2014. Retrieved 15 December 2017.
  3. "Statistics from RSSSF".
  4. "European Footballer of the Year ("Ballon d'Or") 1981".
  5. Matthias Arnhold (31 May 2012). "Ramaz Aleksandrovich Shengeliya - Goals in International Matches". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 14 June 2012.
  6. Ramaz Shengelia – FIFA competition record
  7. Obituary - UEFA
  8. Obituary at Corriere dello Sport website Archived 3 July 2015 at the Wayback Machine (in Italian)
  9. "Ramaz Shengelia career statistics". Footballfacts.ru. Retrieved 14 December 2017.
  10. Ramaz Aleksandrovich Shengeliya . EU-Football.info. Retrieved 5 April 2013.
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