Bidzina Samkharadze

Bidzina Samkharadze

Bidzina Samkharadze playing for CSM Baia Mare in 2017
Full name	Bidzina Samkharadze
Date of birth	(1983-10-02) 2 October 1983
Place of birth	Tbilisi, Georgian SSR
Height	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight	80 kg (12 st 8 lb; 180 lb)
Rugby union career
Position(s) Scrum-half Current team Timișoara Saracens Senior career Years Team Apps (Points) ?–2004 Locomotive Tbilisi () 2004–05 Walsall () 2005–06 Locomotive Tbilisi () 2006–11 Farul Constanța () 2011–12 Armia Tbilisi () 2012–13 Timișoara Saracens 2 (10) 2013–19 Știința Baia Mare 53 (60) 2019–Present Timișoara Saracens 7 (5) Correct as of 28 March 2020 International career Years Team Apps (Points) 2004–Present Georgia 61 (30) Correct as of 28 March 2020

Bidzina Samkharadze (Georgian: ბიძინა სამხარაძე, born 2 October 1983 in Tbilisi) is a Georgian rugby union player who plays as a scrum-half for professional SuperLiga club Timișoara Saracens.

Clubs career

During his career, Samkharadze played for Locomotive Tbilisi and Armia Tbilisi in Georgia, Walsall RFC in England and mostly in Romania for Farul Constanţa, Știința Baia Mare and Timișoara Saracens.

International career

He has currently 61 caps for Georgia, since his first game at the 14–19 loss to Portugal, on 14 February 2004, in Tbilisi, for the Six Nations B. He has scored 6 tries for the "Lelos", with an aggregate of 30 points. Samkharadze was called for the 2007 Rugby World Cup, playing in four games, and for the 2011 Rugby World Cup, playing in two games. He remained scoreless on both occasions.

External links

• Bidzina Samkharadze at ESPNscrum
• Bidzina Samkharadze at ItsRugby.co.uk
• Bidzina Samkharadze at Romanian Rugby SuperLiga (in Romanian)