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Arkady Andreasyan

Arkady Andreasyan
Personal information
Full name Arkady Georgievich Andreasyan
Date of birth (1947-08-11) 11 August 1947 (age 69)
Place of birth Baku, Azerbaijan SSR
Height 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)
Playing position Midfielder
Club information
Current team
Ararat Yerevan (manager)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1965–1966 Shirak Leninakan ? (?)
1966–1967 Ararat Yerevan 0 (0)
1967–1968 Sevan Armavir ? (?)
1969–1978 Ararat Yerevan 242 (62)
National team
1971–1972 Soviet Union (Olympics) 9 (3)
1972–1975 Soviet Union 12 (1)
Teams managed
1979–1981 Kotayk Abovyan
1981–1983 Ararat Yerevan
1984–1985 Spartak Hoktemberian Armavir
1986 Kotayk Abovyan
1986–1989 Ararat Yerevan
1991 Kotayk Abovyan
1992–1993 Zvartnots Echmiadzin
1993–1995 Homenmen Beirut
1996–2003 Ararat Yerevan
2005 Lernain
2007–2008 Mika Yerevan
2009– Ararat Yerevan (Vice-President)
2009 Ararat Yerevan (Acting manager)
2011–2012 Ararat Yerevan
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

Arkady Georgievich Andreasyan (Armenian: Արկադի Գեորգիի Անդրեասյան, Russian: Аркадий Георгиевич Андреасян; born on 11 August 1947) is a former Soviet Armenian football player and manager. He played as midfielder for Ararat Yerevan in most of his club career and for the Soviet Union national football team. He was a member of the Ararat Yerevan team that won the Soviet Top League in 1973 and the Soviet Cup in 1973 and 1975 and a member of the Soviet Olympic football team that won bronze at the 1972 Summer Olympics. Andreasyan was awarded the Master of Sport of the USSR title in 1971, the Honoured Coach of the Armenian SSR title in 1982 and the Order For Merit to the Fatherland of Armenia in 2011. He is currently the Vice-President of Ararat Yerevan.

Arkady Andreasyan was born in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR to an Armenian family. He was a pupil of the Neftchi Baku football school. Andreasyan moved to the Armenian SSR for his senior career when he joined Shirak Leninakan in 1965. He left Shirak after one season. Andreasyan became a member of Ararat Yerevan in 1966. He didn't get to play for Araray at all his first year and moved to Sevan Armavir in 1967 and played for the team until 1968. Once the 1969 season began, Andreasyan moved back to Ararat Yerevan. His debut match took place on 4 April 1969 in Yerevan in a match against Dynamo Kyiv. Ararat Yerevan won the 1973 Soviet Top League and the Soviet Cup in 1973 and 1975. These achievements are considered among the greatest milestones in the history of Armenian football to this day. Andreasyan played as one of the main midfielders of Ararat during these years. In the 1974–75 European Cup, Andreasyan scored the fifth and final goal in a dominant 5-0 victory over Cork Celtic. Ararat Yerevan advanced to the quarterfinals, where the team played two games against Bayern Munich, losing the first 0-2. At the second match, in Hrazdan Stadium, Yerevan, Andreasyan scored the only goal of the game at the 35th minute and Ararat Yerevan won 1-0. Bayern moved on due to aggregate and went on to win the European Cup. Andreasyan retired as a football player in 1978. He played a total of 242 matches and scored a total of 62 goals for Ararat Yerevan.


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