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Ramaz Shengelia

{{short description|Soviet and Georgian football player}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2021}}

{{Infobox football biography

| name = Ramaz Shengelia

| image = Ramaz Shengelia - 054.jpg

| caption =

| full_name =

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1957|1|1|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Kutaisi, Georgian SSR

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2012|6|21|1957|1|1|df=y}}

| death_place = Tbilisi, Georgia

| height = 1.73 m

| position = Striker

| youthyears1 = 1968–1973

| youthclubs1 = Torpedo Kutaisi

| years1 = 1973–1976

| clubs1 = Torpedo Kutaisi

| caps1 = 75

| goals1 = 29

| years2 = 1977–1988

| clubs2 = Dinamo Tbilisi

| caps2 = 283

| goals2 = 120

| years3 = 1989

| clubs3 = IFK Holmsund

| caps3 = 13

| goals3 = 2

| totalcaps = 371

| totalgoals = 151

| nationalyears1 = 1976–1980

| nationalteam1 = Soviet Union U21

| nationalcaps1 = 13

| nationalgoals1 = 9

| nationalyears2 = 1979–1983

| nationalteam2 = Soviet Union

| nationalcaps2 = 26

| nationalgoals2 = 10

}}

Ramaz Shengelia ({{lang-ka|რამაზ შენგელია}}; 1 January 1957 – 21 June 2012[http://www.apsny.ge/2012/soc/1340303586.php Скончался легендарный грузинский футболист Рамаз Шенгелия]) was a Georgian and Soviet footballer who played as a striker.

Club career

Born in Kutaisi, Shengelia started career in his hometown club Torpedo Kutaisi in 1968.{{cite web | url = http://msy.gov.ge/index.php?lang_id=GEO&sec_id=1015 | title = Career in quotes: Ramaz Shengelia | website = Ministry of Sport and Youth Affairs of Georgia | date = 17 January 2014 | access-date = 15 December 2017}} 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.

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. 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. 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).{{cite web|url=https://www.rsssf.org/miscellaneous/ussrpoy.html|title=Statistics from RSSSF}}

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.{{cite web|url=https://www.rsssf.org/miscellaneous/europa-poy81.html|title=European Footballer of the Year ("Ballon d'Or") 1981}} 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 six goals.

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. 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

Shengelia played in 26 games scoring 10 goals for the Soviet Union national team, including performance at the 1982 FIFA World Cup (five appearances, one goal).{{Cite web | url = https://www.rsssf.org/miscellaneous/shengeliya-intlg.html | title = Ramaz Aleksandrovich Shengeliya – Goals in International Matches | author = Matthias Arnhold | date = 31 May 2012 | access-date = 14 June 2012 | publisher = Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation}} He also represented his country in five FIFA World Cup qualification matches.{{FIFA player|57932}}

Later years

After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Shengelia worked in the Georgia national 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.

Shengelia died of a brain haemorrhage in Tbilisi in June 2012, at the age of 55.[https://web.archive.org/web/20120625000536/http://www.uefa.com/uefa/aboutuefa/organisation/history/obituaries/newsid=1829644.html Obituary] – UEFA[http://www.corrieredellosport.it/calcio/2012/06/21-247436/morto+georgiano+Shengelia Obituary] at Corriere dello Sport website {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150703033723/http://www.corrieredellosport.it/calcio/2012/06/21-247436/morto+georgiano+Shengelia |date=3 July 2015 }} {{in lang|it}}

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

Career statistics

=Club=

class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"

|+ Appearances and goals by club, season and competition{{cite web|url=http://footballfacts.ru/players/108293-shengeliya-ramaz-aleksandrovich|title=Ramaz Shengelia career statistics|publisher=Footballfacts.ru|access-date=14 December 2017}}

rowspan="2"|Club

!rowspan="2"|Season

!colspan="2"|League

!colspan="2"|Cup

!colspan="2"|Europe{{efn|Includes UEFA European Cup, UEFA Cup and UEFA Cup Winners' Cup.}}

!colspan="2"|Other{{efn|Includes other competitive competition USSR Federation Cup.}}

!colspan="2"|Total

Apps

!Goals

!Apps

!Goals

!Apps

!Goals

!Apps

!Goals

!Apps

!Goals

rowspan="5"|Torpedo Kutaisi

|1973

|1

000colspan="2"|–colspan="2"|–10
1974

|14

200colspan="2"|–colspan="2"|–142
1975

|33

1510colspan="2"|–colspan="2"|–3415
1976

|27

1200colspan="2"|–colspan="2"|–2712
Total

!75

2910−−−−7629
rowspan="13"|Dinamo Tbilisi

|1977

|24

51052colspan="2"|–297
1978

|28

156142colspan="2"|–3818
1979

|29

88341colspan="2"|–4112
1980

|32

176142colspan="2"|–4220
1981

|31

2311972443|4336
1982

|26

162162colspan="2"|–3419
1983

|27

111000colspan="2"|–2811
1984

|29

93200colspan="2"|–3211
1985

|22

61000colspan="2"|–236
1986

|3

00000colspan="2"|–30
1987

|27

94363213916
1988

|5

11000colspan="2"|–61
Total

!283

1203412381921357156
Holmsund

|1989

|13

20000colspan="2"|–132
colspan="2"|Career total

!371

1513512372021445188

{{notelist}}

=International=

:Scores and results list Soviet Union's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Shengelia goal.

class="wikitable sortable"

|+ List of international goals scored by Ramaz Shengelia[http://eu-football.info/_player.php?id=19119 Ramaz Aleksandrovich Shengeliya ]. EU-Football.info. Retrieved 5 April 2013.

scope="col"|No.

!scope="col"|Date

!scope="col"|Venue

!scope="col"|Opponent

!scope="col"|Score

!scope="col"|Result

!scope="col"|Competition

style="text-align:center"|128 March 1979Lokomotiv Republican Sports Complex, Simferopol, Soviet Union{{fb|BUL|1971}}style="text-align:center"|2–0style="text-align:center"|3–1Friendly
style="text-align:center"|219 April 1979Dinamo Stadium, Tbilisi, Soviet Union{{fb|SWE}}style="text-align:center"|1–0style="text-align:center"|2–0Friendly
style="text-align:center"|35 May 1979Central Lenin Stadium, Moscow, Soviet Union{{fb|CSK}}style="text-align:center"|2–0style="text-align:center"|3–0Friendly
style="text-align:center"|419 May 1979Dinamo Stadium, Tbilisi, Soviet Union{{fb|HUN}}style="text-align:center"|2–2style="text-align:center"|2–2UEFA Euro 1980 qualifying
style="text-align:center"|523 September 1981Central Lenin Stadium, Moscow, Soviet Union{{fb|TUR}}style="text-align:center"|4–0style="text-align:center"|4–01982 FIFA World Cup qualification
style="text-align:center"|67 October 1981Atatürk Stadium, İzmir, Turkey{{fb|TUR}}style="text-align:center"|1–0style="text-align:center"|3–01982 FIFA World Cup qualification
style="text-align:center"|7

| rowspan="2"|28 October 1981

rowspan="2"|Dinamo Stadium, Tbilisi, Soviet Unionrowspan="2"|{{fb|CSK}}style="text-align:center"|1–0rowspan="2" style="text-align:center"|2–0rowspan="2"|1982 FIFA World Cup qualification
style="text-align:center"|8

| style="text-align:center"|2–0

style="text-align:center"|95 May 1982Central Lenin Stadium, Moscow, Soviet Union{{fb|GDR}}style="text-align:center"|1–0style="text-align:center"|1–0Friendly
style="text-align:center"|1022 June 1982Estadio La Rosaleda, Málaga, Spain{{fb|SCO}}style="text-align:center"|2–1style="text-align:center"|2–21982 FIFA World Cup

Honours

=Player=

Dinamo Tbilisi

Soviet Union U21

Individual

References

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External links

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  • {{NFT player|pid=20686}}
  • [http://rusteam.permian.ru/players/shengeliya.html Profile in Russian]
  • [http://www.istpravda.com.ua/digest/2012/06/29/89446/ Pachkoria, Tengiz. In Memoriam. The star of Dinamo Tbilisi Ramaz Shengelia]. [http://www.apsny.ge/ Georgia online]. (Distributed by Ukrayinska Pravda)

{{USSR Squad 1982 World Cup}}

{{Soviet Footballer of the Year}}

{{Soviet Top League Top Scorers}}

{{UEFA Cup Winners' Cup top scorers}}

{{UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship awards}}

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