Zaza Enden

Zaza Enden — Biography

Zaza Enden, known by the nickname "Tatu", is a Turkish basketball player of Georgian descent who captained Fenerbahçe. His birth name is Zaza Eladze. At 2.06 m he played power forward and spent his best years in the yellow-and-navy shirt at Euroleague level, the top club competition in Europe. After his playing days he turned to coaching and to professional wrestling, and most recently to teaching basketball to young players.

He was born in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, in the Soviet era. In 1992 he came to Turkey, first settling in Trabzon, and later took Turkish citizenship. At Fenerbahçe he was team captain between 1998 and 2003. In later years he worked as player-coach of Akçakoca Poyraz Gençlik in Düzce and took the team up to the Second Basketball League at the end of 2006-07. In 2016 he said he had returned to basketball for his daughter's sake.

In 2010 he stepped into the ring with the Turkish Power Wrestling promotion, which is why he is described as both a basketball player and a wrestler.