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Name
  
Vakhtang Koridze

Role
  
Football player

Years
  
Team

Position
  
Midfielder

1967–1969
  
FC Dinamo Batumi


Full name
  
Vakhtang Ionovich Koridze

Date of birth
  
(1949-12-24) 24 December 1949 (age 66)

Place of birth
  
Batumi, Georgian SSR

Playing position
  
Defender/Midfielder

Vakhtang Ionovich Koridze (Georgian: ვახტანგ ქორიძე) (born 24 December 1949 in Batumi) is a retired Soviet football player. He was an integral member of the Dinamo Tbilisi side that won the Soviet league championship in 1978 and eliminated Liverpool in the European Cup the following year.

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Honours

  • Soviet Top League winner: 1978.
  • Soviet Cup winner: 1976, 1979.
  • International career

    Koridze made his debut for USSR on 28 March 1979 in a friendly against Bulgaria. He played in a UEFA Euro 1980 qualifier against Hungary and scored a goal in a friendly against Czechoslovakia.

    References

    Vakhtang Koridze Wikipedia