Monday, December 20, 2021

Boris Paichadze

Boris Paichadze (1915 –1990) was a Georgian footballer, who played for FC Dinamo Tbilisi. The largest stadium in Georgia, the Boris Paichadze Stadium in Tbilisi, is named after him.

In 2001, he was voted the best Georgian football player of the 20th century.

Paichadze declared that he had a close relationship with infamous Soviet politician Lavrentiy Beria, Stalin’s head of the NKVD. Beria, who was a fan of Dinamo, prevented Paichadze from moving to Spartak Moscow, that was very keen to sign Paichadze during his peak years.

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