Khoren Oganesian

Khoren Oganesian
Personal information
Date of birth (1955-01-10) 10 January 1955 (age 69)
Place of birth Yerevan, Armenian SSR, Soviet Union
Height 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1974–1985 Ararat Yerevan 295 (93)
1986–1988 Arabkir Yerevan 13 (4)
1989–1991 Pakhtakor Tashkent 46 (9)
1992–1993 Kilikia Yerevan 33 (22)
1995–1996 Pyunik Yerevan 4 (0)
Total 391 (128)
International career
1979–1984 USSR 34 (6)
Managerial career
1991 Tavriya Simferopol
1992–1993 Homenetmen
1993–1995 Homenetmen Beirut
1995–1998 Kilikia Yerevan
1996–1997 Armenia national team
2000–2006 Pyunik Yerevan (president)
2012–2012 Lokomotiv Tashkent
Medal record
Representing  Soviet Union
Men's Football
Bronze medal – third place 1980 Moscow Team Competition
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Khoren Oganesian (Armenian: Խորեն Հովհաննիսյան; born 10 January 1955), also known as Khoren Hovhannisyan, is a former Armenian and Soviet football player who played as a midfielder and currently a football manager and coach. He was awarded the Master of Sport of the USSR, International Class title in 1976.

Oganesian was a member of the USSR national football team and mostly played at club level for Soviet Top League and Armenian Premier League club Ararat Yerevan. He is widely considered a legend of Ararat and Armenian football in general. In official games of the USSR championships, Oganesian had 295 matches and scored 93 goals for Ararat. His number of scored goals is a record of the USSR in Armenian football. In November 2003, to celebrate UEFA's Jubilee, he was selected as the Golden Player of Armenia by the Football Federation of Armenia as the nation's most outstanding player of the past 50 years.[1]

In a survey taken in 2005 by the Football Federation of Armenia, Oganesian was chosen as the best player of Armenia in the 20th century. On 28 May 2010, on the occasion of the Armenian Republic Day, a number of prominent figures of different areas were honored. For his contribution to the Fatherland Order of the President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan, the law on State Awards, the highest award of the country, were given to Oganesian, who was awarded the Khorenatsi medal.[2]

  1. ^ Golden players take centre stage. Archived 2 January 2008 at the Wayback Machine, from uefa.com
  2. ^ Хорен Оганесян награжден медалью "Мовсеса Хоренаци" (in Russian). ArmFootball.com. Archived from the original on 23 July 2012. Retrieved 1 April 2013.