Zviad Endeladze ( ka, ზვიად ენდელაძე; born 7 April 1966 in
Adigeni) is a retired
Georgian footballer
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who played as a
forward
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*Forward (surname)
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* Forward (association football)
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.
Endeladze started his career at local Adigeni club Zarzma. After a year-long conscription to the Soviet military, he resumed playing football.
Endeladze has played for clubs such as
Guria
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and
Margveti, scoring 40 goals in 30 league games during the 1995–96 season, which made him the top scorer in European domestic competitions and would have won the
European Golden Boot
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had it not been suspended in 1991. The award was reinstated a season after Endeladze's feat under new rules that would count goals scored in the
Georgian Top League as one point while goals scored in Europe's top leagues are counted double.
He retired from football in 2010 aged 44, but remained in football working as a coach for youth teams in Kutaisi.
References
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Sport.de
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1966 births
Living people
Men's footballers from Georgia (country)
FC Metalurgi Rustavi players
FC Samtredia players
FC Luch Vladivostok players
Dinamo Zugdidi players
FC Guria Lanchkhuti players
Erovnuli Liga players
Sportspeople from Samtskhe–Javakheti
Men's association football forwards
Soviet men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in Russia