Beka Bitsadze (born 24 March 1991) is a Georgian

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number 8 playing for

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. He has played for the Georgia national team twenty times.

Biography

Bitsadze was born in

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and played for the youth Rugby Club Iveria under Mikheil Chachua before moving up to play in the

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for RC Army Tbilisi (2010-2014), then in the

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for

FC Locomotive Tbilisi FC Locomotive Tbilisi, commonly referred to as Lokomotivi or simply Loco, is a Georgian professional football club based Tbilisi. The club competes in the Erovnuli Liga 2, the second tier of Georgian football. During the existence of the USSR ...

(2014-2015).

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