Dzhemal Kherhadze

Dzhemal Noyevich Kherhadze (Russian: Джемал Ноевич Херхадзе; 2 February 1945 – 11 March 2019)^[1] was a Soviet Georgian football player and coach.

Dzhemal Kherhadze

Personal information
Full name	Dzhemal Noyevich Kherhadze
Date of birth	(1945-02-02)2 February 1945
Place of birth	Kutaisi, Georgian SSR
Date of death	11 March 2019(2019-03-11) (aged 74)
Height	1.72 m (5 ft 7+1⁄2 in)
Position(s)	Forward
Youth career
	FC Torpedo Kutaisi
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1960–1961	FC Imereti Kutaisi (amateur)
1962–1978	FC Torpedo Kutaisi	337	(82)
Managerial career
1981–1983	FC Torpedo Kutaisi (assistant)
1985–1986	FC Meshakhte Tkibuli
1987–1996	FC Torpedo Kutaisi (assistant)
1996	FC Torpedo Kutaisi
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

He was most notable as the co-top scorer of the 1969 Soviet Top League with 16 goals. He was not awarded the top scorer prize as the Trud newspaper which was awarding said prize suspected that the last game of the season, in which he scored a hat-trick to catch up to Nikolai Osyanin on the scorers list, was fixed (his team FC Torpedo Kutaisi played FC SKA Rostov-on-Don with a score of 3-3, SKA's Vladimir Proskurin, who also scored a hat-trick to catch up with Osyanin, was not awarded the prize either). Formally the decision was justified by Osyanin scoring in "more important" games.^[2]