When Khvicha Kvaratskhelia was a teenager coming through the ranks at Dinamo Tbilisi, his family struggled financially. His father had to leave for Azerbaijan to find work. Kvara’s youth coaches gave him small amounts of money to look after himself at tournaments.
“But he’d never spend it! He’d keep it, come back, and spend it on his brothers or his friends, or take somebody else who was poor to eat at McDonald’s. He would always share”, one of his coaches said.
Before the Champions League final last season, he made a promise to his first coach at Dinamo that he would bring the trophy back to Tbilisi and that he would drink Georgian wine from it in his office. Fortune blessed the right kind of guy in Kvara.
When Khvicha Kvaratskhelia was a teenager coming through the ranks at Dinamo Tbilisi, his family struggled financially. His father had to leave for Azerbaijan to find work. Kvara’s youth coaches gave him small amounts of money to look after himself at tournaments.
“But he’d never spend it! He’d keep it, come back, and spend it on his brothers or his friends, or take somebody else who was poor to eat at McDonald’s. He would always share”, one of his coaches said.
Before the Champions League final last season, he made a promise to his first coach at Dinamo that he would bring the trophy back to Tbilisi and that he would drink Georgian wine from it in his office. Fortune blessed the right kind of guy in Kvara.
