Uridia, Merabi Mamukovich

In 1995, he moved to Moscow with his parents in refugee status; the family lived in conditions of 20 people per room ^[1] . At the age of six, he began to engage in the team of FC Torpedo-ZIL . The first coach was Andrei Talalaev , who worked with the player for five years ^[2] . He was at the academies of Spartak and Lokomotiv , but could not stand the competition ^[1] .

Grandparents and uncle Merabi lived in Kazan , and as a schoolboy he went there every summer; at sixteen, he arrived at the Rubin . In the first year he became the top scorer of the Tatarstan championship; the following year he won the Russian football championship among youths born in 1993. He was involved in training with the main team, participated in the tactical analysis of Berdyev ; to the last question, what does he prefer - to play or sit on the bench - he answered: “play”, and spent two seasons on loan at the Nizhnekamsk Neftekhimik ^[1] .

At the invitation of Talalev, he moved to the Volga Nizhny Novgorod, but for the whole season he never managed to score a single goal ^[1] . He spent the season 15/16 on loan at the Georgian club Shukura from the city of Kobuleti ^[1] . After returning, I realized that no one was counting on him in Kazan - “I had to find out on my own when and with whom to train” - and broke the contract. I went to see Sochi FC and Rostov's The Seagull , but was not signed, because the management of the Kazan club did not return his transfer from Georgia to the RFU , and Merabi would be considered a legionnaire in Russia. He kept fit with the student team of the Volga Academy and the Komus mini-football club. In the fall of 2016, at the All-Russian tournament of universities in Sochi, he became the top scorer of the championship ^[1] .

He spent the spring of 2017 as part of the Moscow Torpedo ^[3] .

In the summer of 2017, he returned to Neftekhimik, in which, in the 2018/19 season, he became the winner of the PFL Championship in the Ural-Volga Region group and was recognized as the best player in the tournament in the Ural-Volga Region group ^[4] .

In the summer of 2019, viewing was held at Rubin, but in the end the club refused to sign it ^[5] .

Married. Daughter was born in Kobuleti.

He considers himself a “real Georgian”, but he rejected the proposal to restore Georgian citizenship ^[1] . The younger brother plays for the Torpedo team born in 2002 ^[3] .

• Merabi Uridia: Training with Ruby is the best gift (neopr.) . FC Rubin fans website (September 18, 2012).