Vladimir Gutsaev

Vladimir Gutsaev

Aleksandr Chivadze, Vladimir Gutsaev, David Kipiani in 1981
Personal information
Full name	Vladimir Gavrilovich Gutsaev
Date of birth	(1952-12-21) 21 December 1952 (age 64)
Place of birth	Tbilisi, USSR
Height	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Playing position	Striker
Youth career
1966–1969	FC Norchi Dinamoeli
1969–1971	FShM Tbilisi
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1971–1986	Dinamo Tbilisi	303	(47)
National team
1972–1982	USSR	11	(1)
Teams managed
1987–1990	Iberia Tbilisi (director)
1991	Anorthosis Famagusta (assistant)
1991–1994	Anorthosis Famagusta
1994–1995	Alania Vladikavkaz (assistant)
1996	Georgia U-21
1997–1999	Georgia
1999–2000	Alania Vladikavkaz
2001	Torpedo Kutaisi (director)
2011–2012	WIT Georgia-2
2012–2013	FC Spartak Vladikavkaz (director of sports)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

Vladimir Gutsaev (Georgian: ვლადიმერ გუცაევი, Russian: Владимир Гаврилович Гуцаев, Vladimir Gavrilovich Gutsayev; born 21 December 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.

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 victory for 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).

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.