Vladimir Gutsaev

Football player infobox2
playername = Vladimir Gutsaev
fullname = Vladimir Gavrilovich Gutsaev
height =
nickname =
dateofbirth = Birth date and age|1952|12|21|df=y
cityofbirth = Tbilisi
countryofbirth = USSR
position = Striker
youthyears =

youthclubs = DYuSSh Yuny Dinamovets Tbilisi
FShM Tbilisi
years = 1971-1986
clubs = FC Dinamo Tbilisi
caps(goals) =
nationalyears = 1972-1973
1978-1979
1981-1982
nationalteam = USSR
nationalcaps(goals) = 11 (1)
manageryears = 1987-1990
1991
1991-1994
1994-1995
1996
1997-1999
1999-2000
2001
managerclubs = Iberia Tbilisi (director)
Anorthosis Famagusta FC (assistant)
Anorthosis Famagusta FC
FC Spartak-Alania Vladikavkaz (assistant)
Georgia U-21
Georgia
FC Alania Vladikavkaz
FC Torpedo Kutaisi (director)

Vladimir Gutsaev ( _ka. ვლადიმერ გუცაევი, _ru. Владимир Гаврилович Гуцаев, "Vladimir Gavrilovich Gutsayev") (born December 21 1952) is a retired Soviet and Georgian footballer and coach of Ossetian ethnicity. He was a member of the Parliament of Georgia from the ruling United National Movement party from 2004 to 2008.

Football career

Debuting in FC Dinamo Tbilisi in 1971, he played as a striker for this club until 1986 as well as for the USSR national football team between 1972 and 1982. He is best remembered for his goal against FC Carl Zeiss Jena in the 1981 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Final which ended in the victory of FC Dinamo Tbilisi. His other achievements include winning the championship of the Soviet Union in 1978 and the Soviet Cup in 1976 and 1979. He retired in 1986, having played more than 300 matches and having scored almost 50 goals in the Soviet football competitions. Gutsaev then worked as a head coach for the Cypriot Anorthosis Famagusta FC (1991-94), the Georgia national football team (1997-99), and the Russian FC Alania Vladikavkaz (1999-2000).

Political career

In March 2004, he was elected to the Parliament of Georgia from Mikheil Saakashvili’s United National Movement party list and has since been a member of a Parliamentary Committee for Education, Science, Culture and Sports. In July 2004, Eduard Kokoity, the leader of Georgia’s breakaway South Ossetia, accused Gutsaev of having offered him 20 million USD in exchange of his "loyalty" to the Georgian government. Gutsaev dismissed Kokoity’s claims as an attempt to "garner political points" and said that his only mission to Kokoity was to persuade him to allow a South Ossetian football team to take part in the Georgian national championship. [ru icon [http://izvestia.com/news/news87007 Футболист Гуцаев отрекся от $20 млн., которые он якобы предложил главе Южной Осетии] . Izvestia, 28.07.04.]

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* [http://www.parliament.ge/index.php?lang_id=ENG&sec_id=2&cevri_id=373 Vladimer Gutsaev] . Parliament of Georgia.
*ru icon [http://www.totalfootball.ru/wiki/index.php/%D0%93%D1%83%D1%86%D0%B0%D0%B5%D0%B2 Владимир Гаврилович Гуцаев] . TotalFootball.Ru