Vladimir Gutsaev

Vladimir Gutsaev (Georgian: ვლადიმერ გუცაევი, Russian: Владимир Гаврилович Гуцаев, Vladimir Gavrilovich Gutsayev; born 21 December 1952) is a retired Soviet and Georgian footballer and coach of Ossetian ethnicity.

Debuting in FC Dinamo Tbilisi in 1971, he played as a striker for this club until 1986 as well as for the USSR national football team between 1972 and 1982.

He retired in 1986, having played more than 300 matches and having scored almost 50 goals in the Soviet football competitions.

In March 2004, he was elected to the Parliament of Georgia from Mikheil Saakashvili's United National Movement party list and has since been a member of a Parliamentary Committee for Education, Science, Culture and Sports.

In July 2004, Eduard Kokoity, the leader of Georgia's breakaway South Ossetia, accused Gutsaev of having offered him 20 million USD in exchange of his "loyalty" to the Georgian government.