Armen (Armenak) Vladimirovich Sargsyan (January 1, 1953, Yerevan , Armenian SSR , USSR ) - Soviet football player and Armenian coach, USSR master of sports of international class . He played as a defender, spent his entire career as a player in “Ararat” club Yerevan .
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| Full name | Armen (Armenak) Vladimirovich Sargsyan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | January 1, 1953 (66 years old) Yerevan , Armenian SSR , USSR | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Citizenship |  the USSR  Armenia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position | defender | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Player Career
Club career
He started playing football at the RFS Yerevan. Even before the start of his professional career, he played in the youth team of the Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, with which he won the sports day in 1971. After that, the head coach of Ararat Nikolai Glebov took several players of that team to his club. That year, Sargsyan got into the application for the match six times, but made his debut as early as next season.
The arrival of a new coach, Nikita Simonyan, improved the team's playing style, which Ararat proved in sparring with Moscow teams. In 1973, the team reached the final of the USSR Cup , had to play with Dynamo Kiev. In the 61st minute, after a penalty carried out by Viktor Kolotov , Dynamo took the lead. The score was kept until the very end of the game, but a minute before the whistle, Levon Ishtoyan scored a goal, transferring the game to extra time. In the 103rd minute, the same Ishtoyan scored a decisive goal. In addition, the team won the USSR championship , and Sargsyan received the Smena magazine award as “Best Debutant”.
In the 1974/75 season, he went with Ararat to the quarter-finals of the UEFA European Cup , where he lost to the future winner, Bayern . Moreover, at home, “Ararat” won with a minimum score, the second goal could transfer the game to extra time. Nevertheless, Sargsyan played well in defense, not allowing Gerd Müller to score, who after the match in an interview with “ Soviet Sport ” noted the game of Armen. In 1975, “Ararat” repeated the success in the cup, beating the Lugansk “ Dawn ” with a score of 2: 1.
Sargsyan played for Ararat until 1980, during which time he spent 170 matches in the championship and scored one goal. He also played for the club in all of his Eurocup seasons of the Soviet period.
Team Career
In 1975-1976 he played for the youth team of the USSR . In the group, the Soviet Union had only one rival - Turkey . After a defeat on the road with a score of 2: 1, the team won back at home 3-0, so that left the group. In the quarter-finals, France was the rival, after similar victories with a score of 2: 1 was a penalty shootout, which the USSR won with a score of 4: 2. After defeating the Netherlands in the semifinals, Sargsyan's team reached the final, where they beat Hungary with a 3–2 lead . For successful performance at the tournament, Sargsyan received the title of international master of sports of the USSR.
Trainer career and later life
Immediately after the declaration of independence of Armenia, Sargsyan became the trainer of Ararat. The club’s first successes in the Armenian period are connected with his name, in particular, the “golden double” in 1993. In 1994, Sargsyan became president of the Football Federation of Armenia , he stayed in this post for four years. Then Sargsyan moved to the United States , where he continued his coaching activities, as well as engaged in the sale of jewelry.
Links
- Profile on FootballFacts.ru
- Euro Cup Matches
- “Ararat 73” 40 years later: Armen Sargsyan
- "Ararat-73" Who, where, when?
- Grigoryan A.G. Tamer of Mueller // Newspaper “Urartu”. - 2004. - No. 10.