Merab Kvirikashvili
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| Date of birth | 27 December 1983 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Place of birth | Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 80 kg (12 st 8 lb; 180 lb) | ||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Fly-half, Fullback, Scrum-half | ||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Club / team | Caps | (points) |
| –2006 2006–2008 2008–2009 2009–2011 2011–2013 2013–2014 2014– |
Lelo Pau Massy Figeac Saint-Junien Vienne Montluçon |
16 16 19 27 12 14 |
(54) (188) (218) (318) (88) (137) |
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| Years | Club / team | Caps | (points) |
| 2003– | Georgia | 100 | (766) |
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Correct as of Scotland U20
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Merab "Meko" Kvirikashvili (born 27 December 1983) is a Georgian rugby union player. He started his career as a scrum half but now plays as a fly half and occasional full back and is the all-time leading points scorer for the Georgian national rugby union team. He has also represented the Georgian national rugby league team and Georgian national rugby sevens team.
Kvirikashvili was born 27 December 1983, Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union. He left Georgia in 2006 for Pro D2 side Pau, and has since moved on to three other French clubs in Fédérale 1 in Massy, Figeac and most recently Saint-Junien where he joined after the 2011 World Cup and currently plays. He has not spent more than two seasons at one club during his stay in France.
Kvirikashvili made his Georgia debut as a teenager in 2003 against Portugal, and made the squad for Georgia's first ever appearance in a World Cup later that year, playing in all four of Georgia's matches from the bench.
However he failed to establish himself in the Georgian side over the next couple of years, with Irakli Abuseridze and Bidzina Samkharadze both ahead of him for selection in the scrum half position. But in 2007 he switched to fly half and in his first start for his country in the position Georgia beat Romania away in Bucharest, he has since remained a regular member of the Georgian side ever since.
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