Akaki Gogia

Akaki Gogia
Akaki Gogia (2013)
Personnel
birthday	January 18, 1992
place of birth	Rustavi ,  Georgia
size	178 cm
position	midfield
Juniors
Years	station
2001	FSV 67 hall
2002-2004	Hannover 96
2004-2011	VfL Wolfsburg
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2009-2011	VfL Wolfsburg II	9 0(0)
2011-2013	VfL Wolfsburg	0 0(0)
2011–2012	→  FC Augsburg  (loan)	12 0(0)
2012-2013	→  FC St. Pauli  (loan)	23 0(1)
2013	→ FC St. Pauli II (loan)	1 0(0)
2013-2015	Hallescher FC	71 (19)
2015-2017	Brentford FC	13 0(0)
2016-2017	→  Dynamo Dresden  (loan)	22 (10)
2017–	1. FC Union Berlin	53 0(8)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
2010	Germany U-18	4 0(0)
2010-2011	Germany U-19	3 0(1)
1 Only league games are given. As of June 27, 2020

Akaki "Andy" Gogia (born January 18, 1992 in Rustavi , Georgia ) is a German football player of Georgian origin.

Life

Akaki Gogia was born in the Georgian city of Rustavi . In 2001 the family moved to Halle (Saale) . He lives in Berlin-Friedrichshain.

Career

In the club

Gogia started playing football at the Halle club FSV 67 Halle. After his family moved to Hanover , he joined the youth department of Hanover 96 . He played there until 2004 and then switched to the youth team at VfL Wolfsburg . In 2009 he came to the second team of VfL, for which he made his first game on March 31, 2010.

For the 2011/12 season, Gogia moved on loan to the newly promoted Bundesliga club , FC Augsburg . The loan agreement had a term of two years. For FC Augsburg he made his debut in the Bundesliga on August 6, 2011 (1st matchday) in a 2-2 draw against SC Freiburg . At the beginning of July 2012, his loan contract was terminated prematurely and he returned to Wolfsburg. The next day it was awarded to FC St. Pauli for a season .

For the 2013/14 season he moved to Halleschen FC .

After two years, Gogia left Halle and joined the English second division club Brentford FC for the 2015/16 season .

In August 2016 he switched to German second division team Dynamo Dresden on loan for the 2016/17 season . The association also secured a purchase option. He was given the shirt number 2 here.

On July 1, 2017, 1. FC Union Berlin announced that the offensive all-rounder is moving to Berlin-Köpenick and will receive a contract until June 30, 2021.

In the national team

Gogia made his debut on March 23, 2010 for the German U-18 national team in a 1-1 draw in the friendly in Cloppenburg against France in the starting eleven. His last of four appearances he completed on June 6, 2010 in a draw against Croatia , when at the beginning of the second half for Bienvenue Basala-Mazana was used.

Gogia played his first game for the German U-19 team on November 17, 2010 in a 1-1 draw in Dresden against the Czech Republic , when he was substituted on in the 85th minute. His third and last game in this age group was the 1: 2 defeat against Belgium on March 25, 2011 in Völklingen , in which he achieved the 1-0 lead for his team.

At the moment he is only in possession of the German citizenship, which he does not want to give up at the moment in order to obtain the Georgian one, which would allow him to play in the national team of his country of birth.

Web links

Commons : Akaki Gogia  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Akaki Gogia in the database of weltfussball.de
• Akaki Gogia in the database of fussballdaten.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "A Gogia never gives up". Retrieved September 8, 2019 (German). 
2. ^ VfL Wolfsburg II - SV Babelsberg 03 . transfermarkt.de, accessed on May 16, 2015.
3. ↑ Augsburg brings first new entry: Gogia comes from Wolfsburg . transfermarkt.de, May 11, 2011.
4. ↑ FCA: Contract with Gogia terminated . ( Memento from February 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
5. ↑ Akaki Gogia is here . Message from FC St. Pauli.
6. ↑ HFC signs offensive man Andy Gogia from VfL Wolfsburg . hallescherfc.de, July 16, 2013; Retrieved August 18, 2014
7. ↑ 3rd division: Akaki Gogia changes from Hallescher FC to FC Brentford . Sport1.de, May 16, 2015.
8. ^ SG Dynamo Dresden e. V. - Official website. (No longer available online.) In: mobil.dynamo-dresden.de. Archived from the original on August 8, 2016 ; accessed on November 4, 2019 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
9. ↑ 1. FC Union Berlin - Union strengthens with Akaki Gogia fc-union-berlin.de, July 1, 2017; Retrieved July 7, 2017.
10. ↑ Eva Wagner: Simply, Crazy. In: kicker sports magazine . January 9, 2017, page 67.