Entering the public service as a local official in 2008, he joined the ruling United National Movement from a young age, serving both in Tbilisi's local bureaucracy and the Administration of President Mikheil Saakashvili.
FC Torpedo Kutaisi (Georgian: საფეხბურთო კლუბი ტორპედო ქუთაისი) is a Georgian professional football club based in Kutaisi, Georgia's third largest city.