Valter Sanaya

Valter Sanaya
Personal information
Full name Valter Vissarionovich Sanaya
Date of birth(1925-09-24)24 September 1925
Place of birthOchamchire, USSR
Date of death 29 October 1999(1999-10-29) (aged 74)
Place of deathMoscow, Russia
Height 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)
PositionGoalkeeper
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1949–1950FC Dinamo Sukhumi
1951FC Dinamo Tbilisi 24 (0)
1952–1953FC Dynamo Moscow 62 (0)
1954–1959FC Dinamo Tbilisi 9 (0)
1960Neftyanik Baku 28 (0)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Valter Vissarionovich Sanaya (also spelled Walter Sanaya; Russian: Вальтер Виссарионович Саная; 24 September 1925 – 29 October 1999) was a Sovietfootball player. A native of Ochamchire, Georgia, Sanaya played as a goalkeeper.

He started his professional football career at FC Dinamo Sukhumi during the 1941 season. In 1944, he then joined FC Dinamo Tbilisi. In the 1946 season, Sanaya was hired by Dynamo Moscow, where he spent the next years. As a goalkeeper in Moscow, he was internally competing with teammates Alexei Khomich and later Lev Yashin and finally took a back seat.[1] After a short return to Dinamo Tbilisi in 1954, he joined Neftyanik Baku. He retired in 1956.

His daughter is former figure skaterMarina Sanaya, Walter Sanaya is also a distant cousin of Zurab Sanaya.[2] He died in 1999 in Moscow.[3]

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