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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Nodar Akhalkatsi | ||
| Date of birth | (1938-01-02)2 January 1938 | ||
| Place of birth | Tbilisi,Georgian SSR | ||
| Date of death | 24 January 1998(1998-01-24) (aged 60) | ||
| Place of death | Tbilisi,Georgia | ||
| Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | ||
| Position | 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 professionalfootball manager fromGeorgia.
Akhalkatsi coachedSoviet clubDinamo Tbilisi to theUSSR league championship in 1978, with a side that contained players such asDavid Kipiani,Ramaz Shengelia,Vitaly Daraselia,Tengiz Sulakvelidze andAleksandr 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 theEuropean Cup and stunned the reigning championsLiverpool with an impressive 3–0 win in the first round. However, they were eliminated byWest German sideHamburg in their next tie.
Two years later, Akhalkatsi enjoyed his finest moment as a manager when he guided Dinamo to victory in the1981 Cup Winners' Cup final,[1] beatingEast German outfitCarl Zeiss Jena inDüsseldorf'sRheinstadion. Dinamo had won the 1979Soviet Cup to gain admittance to the competition, beatingFC Dynamo Moscow on penalties in the final.
Akhalkatsi was a member of USSR managerKonstantin Beskov's coaching staff at the1982 World Cup in Spain, forming a three-man technical team with Beskov andDynamo Kiev's coachValeriy Lobanovskyi.
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 theUSSR. He was the organisation's president from 1990 to 1998.[2]
He died of a heart attack on his way toTbilisi Airport, from where he intended to fly toMoscow to participate in theCIS Cup, on 24 January 1998, aged 60.[3] In 2008, for his contributions to association football, Akhalkatsi became the recipient (posthumously) of theFIFA Order of Merit, the highest honour awarded byFIFA.[4][5]
His son, Nodar Akhalkatsi junior, was the president of theGeorgian Football Federation from June 2005 to September 2009.[6][7]
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 | 039.16 |
| Dinamo Tbilisi | March 1976 | October 1983 | 330 | 160 | 86 | 84 | 495 | 323 | +172 | 048.48 |
| Dinamo Tbilisi | July 1985 | November 1986 | 53 | 19 | 16 | 18 | 63 | 64 | −1 | 035.85 |
| Career totals | 549 | 244 | 143 | 162 | 732 | 539 | +193 | 044.44 | ||
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
| Preceded by unknown | Presidents of GFF 1990–1998 | Succeeded by |