Yura Movsisyan
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Movsisyan with Spartak in 2015
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Yura S. Movsisyan | ||
| Date of birth | 2 August 1987 | ||
| Place of birth | Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, Soviet Union | ||
| Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||
| Playing position | Forward | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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Real Salt Lake | ||
| Number | 14 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 2005–2006 | Pasadena Lancers | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2006–2007 | Kansas City Wizards | 28 | (5) |
| 2007–2009 | Real Salt Lake | 53 | (15) |
| 2010–2011 | Randers | 30 | (12) |
| 2011–2012 | Krasnodar | 50 | (23) |
| 2012–2016 | Spartak Moscow | 62 | (25) |
| 2016 | → Real Salt Lake (loan) | 29 | (9) |
| 2017– | Real Salt Lake | 0 | (0) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 2010– | Armenia | 35 | (10) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 31 October 2016. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 11 October 2015 |
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Yura Movsisyan (Armenian: Յուրա Սարգիսի Մովսիսյան, born 2 August 1987) is an Armenian footballer who currently plays forward for Real Salt Lake in Major League Soccer. He represents Armenia internationally. He has played 35 international games with Armenia scoring 10 goals.
Yura Movsisyan was born 2 August 1987 in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR to an Armenian family of parents Sergey Movsisyan and Aida Sahakyan and brothers Movses and Hovhanes. His family moved to the United States and settled in the Los Angeles area, where there is a large Armenian community. Movsisyan attended and played soccer at Pasadena High School, and played a year of college soccer at Pasadena City College before being discovered by MLS scouts prior to the 2006 MLS SuperDraft. His idol is Thierry Henry.
Movsisyan was signed to a Generation Adidas contract and became the surprise of draft day, with the Kansas City Wizards (now known as Sporting Kansas City) selecting him with the fourth overall pick, the highest in MLS history for a player who did not go to a Division I college program or was not a U.S. youth international. After one game being unused, Movsisyan finally made his debut, coming on as a substitute, in a 2-1 loss against D.C. United on 13 May 2006. Movsisyan became a regular player in the first team by the end of his first professional season. The following season, Movsisyan scored his first goal of his professional career in a 3-0 win over Toronto on 25 April 2007. Soon after, this was followed up when he scored a brace against New York Red Bulls next month on 16 May 2007. He would score two more goals, rising up to five, against Los Angeles Galaxy and Chivas USA.
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