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Kvaratskhelia's family home in Tbilisi, where he grew up, does not announce that a global football star was raised there.
It is one of those anonymous Soviet-era apartment blocks that populate so many parts of the city: concrete, weathered, functional rather than beautiful, surrounded by identical neighbours and the everyday sounds of a working-class district.
Inside that building I met his father, Badri - a former Dinamo Tbilisi player and Azerbaijan international - and his mother, Maka, when their son was starring with Napoli.
It was a warm, welcoming home. Humble, not full of luxuries, but filled with memories. Everywhere you looked there were small mementos of his journey - photographs, trophies, shirts. Among them the first shirt he ever wore for Dinamo Tbilisi.
"Because this is where Khvicha's professional career started. It has to be the Dinamo one," Maka said. "His path to the top started here."
Kvaratskhelia still uses his small bedroom whenever he returns. In one corner there is a computer table, a keyboard, large headphones and the kind of chair used by gamers.
That little world is where he disappears for hours whenever he comes home.
Born on 12 February 2001, from an early age football was inseparable from his life. As his mother recalls, he walked with the ball, slept with the ball. Football was everything, which is not to say that it was an easy path.
As a graduate of the Dinamo Tbilisi academy, he made his professional debut at 16 in 2017 before moving to Rustavi and then on loan to Lokomotiv Moscow where he would receive his first significant salary, money which allowed him to pay for life-saving heart surgery for his father.
"It wasn't even a question to him," said Badri.
On 22 May 2019, the 18-year-old would win his first major honour when Lokomotiv Moscow won the Russian Cup.
A move to Rubin Kazan where he would spend three seasons - and twice win the best young player in the Russian League - followed.
Russia's invasion of Ukraine brought an end to his stay, when Fifa announced on 7 March 2022 that all foreign players in Russia could unilaterally suspend their contracts until 30 June and sign with clubs outside Russia until the same date.
He went home, signing for Georgian club Dinamo Batumi.
