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.
![]() Lochoshvili in 2022 | |||
Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | (1998-05-29) 29 May 1998 (age 24) | ||
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 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]
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]
Individual
U.S. Cremonese – current squad | |
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