Luka Lochoshvili
Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 29 May 1998 | ||
Place of birth | Tbilisi, Georgia | ||
Height | 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) | ||
Position(s) | Centre-back | ||
Club information | |||
Current team | Cremonese | ||
Number | 44 | ||
Youth career | |||
2014–2016 | Dinamo Tbilisi | ||
2017–2019 | Dynamo Kyiv | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2014 | Dinamo Tbilisi B | 1 | (0) |
2016–2017 | Dinamo Tbilisi | 22 | (1) |
2017–2019 | Dynamo Kyiv | 0 | (0) |
2018 | → Dinamo Tbilisi (loan) | 21 | (0) |
2019 | → Žilina B (loan) | 10 | (1) |
2019 | → Žilina (loan) | 3 | (0) |
2020 | Dinamo Tbilisi | 10 | (0) |
2020–2022 | Wolfsberger AC | 52 | (2) |
2022– | Cremonese | 7 | (0) |
National team‡ | |||
2014–2015 | Georgia U17 | 6 | (0) |
2015–2016 | Georgia U19 | 7 | (0) |
2017–2020 | Georgia U21 | 15 | (2) |
2021– | Georgia | 4 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 05:11, 11 October 2022 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 26 September 2021 |
Luka Lochoshvili (Georgian: ლუკა ლოჩოშვილი; born 29 May 1998) is a Georgian professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Serie A club Cremonese.
Club career
Luka Lochoshvili initially played in Dinamo Tbilisi youth teams before his promotion to the first team in 2016. He made a debut in a 4–0 win against Lokomotive Tbilisi on 18 November 2016.[1]
The next summer Lochoshvili signed a five-year deal with Dinamo Kyiv,[2] although in March 2018 was loaned back to his boyhood club and later, in February 2019, to Slovak side Zilina.[3]
Lochoshvili made his professional Fortuna Liga debut for Žilina against DAC Dunajská Streda on 6 April 2019.[4]
In early 2020 Dinamo Kyiv and Luka Lochoshvili terminated the existing contract. The player spent next several months at Dinamo Tbilisi and moved to Wolfsberger AC.[5] He opened his goal account in a 5–3 away win against Austria Wien on 21 March 2021.[6]
In February 2022, while playing for Wolfsberger AC against Austria in Vienna, Lochoshvili took out the tongue of Austria player Georg Teigl. Teigl collided with an opposition player and was lying unconscious, unable to breathe, as he had swallowed his own tongue.[7] Shortly afterwards Luka Lochoshvili was awarded with the Dignity Cross by the grateful Carinthia state governor.[8]
On 10 August 2022, Lochoshvili signed with Cremonese in Italy.[9] He made a first appearance for his new club against A.S.Roma on 22 August.[10]
International career
Lochoshvili made his debut for the Georgia national football team on 5 September 2021 in a World Cup qualifier against Spain, a 4–0 away loss. He started the game and played the whole match.[11]
Honours
Individual
- Best young player of Georgia (2020)[12]
References
- ^ "Dinamo Tbilisi vs Lokomotive". soccerway.com.
- ^ "ოფიციალურად: ლუკა ლოჩოშვილი კიევის "დინამოში"". sportall.ge (in Georgian), 30 August 2017.
- ^ "ლუკა ლოჩოშვილი კარიერას "ჟილინაში" გააგრძელებს". fanebi.com (in Georgian), 8 February 2019.
- ^ DAC VS. ŽILINA 1 - 0 6 April 2019, soccerway.com
- ^ "ოფიციალურად: ლოჩოშვილი ვოლფსბერგერში ითამაშებს". crystalsport.ge (in Georgian), 24 August 2020.
- ^ "ლოჩოშვილმა სადებიუტო გოლი ჟორდანიას გუნდს გაუტანა". 1tv.ge (in Georgian), 21 March 2021.
- ^ Lochoshvili als Teigls Lebensretter, orf.at, 27 February 2022.
- ^ "ლუკა ლოჩოშვილი ღირსების ჯვრით დააჯილდოვეს!". lelo.ge (in Georgian), 8 March 2022.
- ^ "LOCHOSHVILI NUOVO CALCIATORE DELLA CREMONESE" (in Italian). Cremonese. 10 August 2022. Retrieved 15 August 2022.
- ^ "ლუკა ლოჩოშვილის დებიუტი სერია A-ში და კარგი თამაში „რომასთან"". pia.ge (in Georgian). 22 August 2022. Retrieved 11 October 2022.
- ^ "Spain v Georgia game report". FIFA. 5 September 2021.
- ^ "საქართველოს ფეხბურთის ფედერაციის ყოველწლიური დაჯილდოება GFF Awards". gff.ge (in Georgian), 29 December 2020.
External links
- Luka Lochoshvili at Soccerway
- Futbalnet profile
- Fortuna Liga profile
- CS1 Italian-language sources (it)
- Articles with short description
- Use dmy dates from September 2022
- Articles containing Georgian-language text
- Soccerway template with ID not in Wikidata
- 1998 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Tbilisi
- Footballers from Georgia (country)
- Association football defenders
- Georgia (country) international footballers
- Georgia (country) under-21 international footballers
- Georgia (country) youth international footballers
- Erovnuli Liga players
- Slovak Super Liga players
- 2. Liga (Slovakia) players
- Austrian Football Bundesliga players
- FC Dinamo Tbilisi players
- FC Dynamo Kyiv players
- MŠK Žilina players
- Wolfsberger AC players
- U.S. Cremonese players
- Expatriate footballers from Georgia (country)
- Expatriate footballers in Ukraine
- Expatriate footballers in Slovakia
- Expatriate footballers in Austria
- Expatriate footballers in Italy
- Expatriate sportspeople from Georgia (country) in Ukraine
- Expatriate sportspeople from Georgia (country) in Slovakia
- Expatriate sportspeople from Georgia (country) in Austria
- Expatriate sportspeople from Georgia (country) in Italy