German Vasilyevich Kutarba (; born 10 September 1978) is a Russian former professional

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er.

Club career

He made his professional debut in the

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in 1991 for FC Dinamo Gagra.

International

At one point he was a candidate for the Russia's

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Personal life

He was born in

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, a pro-Russia autonomous republic inside

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. After the independent of Georgia, Dinamo Gagra refused to play in Georgian league and he then left for

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, just about 50 km away in

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References

1978 births People from Gagra District Living people Footballers from Abkhazia Russian people of Abkhazian descent Russian men's footballers Russia men's under-21 international footballers Men's association football midfielders Men's association football defenders FC Zhemchuzhina-Sochi players FC Kuban Krasnodar players FC Spartak Vladikavkaz players FC Dynamo Moscow players FC Akhmat Grozny players FC Arsenal Kyiv players FC Metalurh Zaporizhzhia players SC Tavriya Simferopol players FC SKA Rostov-on-Don players Russian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Ukraine Russian Premier League players Ukrainian Premier League players Russian expatriate sportspeople in Ukraine FC Mashuk-KMV Pyatigorsk players FC Avtodor Vladikavkaz players 20th-century Russian sportsmen {{Russia-footy-midfielder-1970s-stub