Georgi Aleksandrovich Makhatadze (russian: Георгий Александрович Махатадзе; born 26 March 1998) is a Russian
football
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player who plays as a
defensive midfielder
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Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...
for
Kuban Krasnodar.
Club career
He made his debut in the
Russian Premier League
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for
FC Lokomotiv Moscow
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on 21 May 2016 in a game against
FC Mordovia Saransk
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.
On 24 August 2018, he was released from his contract with
FC Rubin Kazan
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by mutual consent.
On 28 August 2018, he rejoined Lokomotiv, and was assigned to the farm-club
FC Kazanka Moscow.
On 11 June 2021, he moved to
Rotor Volgograd
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in the
FNL.
International
He represented
Russia national under-17 football team
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On 28 ...
in the
2015 UEFA European Under-17 Championship, in which he was selected for the team of the tournament, and later in the
2015 FIFA U-17 World Cup
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Host selection
The following four countries bid to host the tournament:
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Venues
Along with proposing ...
, in which he scored twice against
South Africa
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Career statistics
Club
Honours
Individual
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2015 UEFA European Under-17 Championship Team of the Tournament
References
External links
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1998 births
Sportspeople from Rostov-on-Don
Russian sportspeople of Georgian descent
Living people
Russian men's footballers
Russia men's youth international footballers
Men's association football midfielders
FC Lokomotiv Moscow players
FC Rubin Kazan players
FC SKA-Khabarovsk players
FC Rostov players
FC Rotor Volgograd players
FC Kuban Krasnodar (2018) players
Russian Premier League players
Russian First League players
Russian Second League players
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