Khoren Oganesian, known as Khoren Hovhannisyan, is a former Armenian and Soviet football player who played as a midfielder and currently a football manager and coach.
34 Facts About Khoren Oganesian
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Khoren Oganesian was awarded the Master of Sport of the USSR, International Class title in 1976.
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Khoren Oganesian is widely considered a legend of Ararat and Armenian football in general.
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In official games of the USSR championships, Khoren Oganesian had 295 matches and scored 93 goals for Ararat.
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Khoren Oganesian's number of scored goals is a record of the USSR in Armenian football.
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Khoren Oganesian was born in an Armenian family on 10 January 1955 in Yerevan, Armenian SSR in a family of sportsmen.
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Khoren Oganesian's father was a weightlifter, and later an honored coach of the Armenian SSR.
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Khoren Oganesian grew up playing football in a nearby yard with his older brother.
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Khoren Oganesian later engaged in a sports school, after which he entered the Armenian State University of Economics, specializing in state planning.
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Lyadin wrote a letter of recommendation to the leadership of the local club Ararat Yerevan, where Khoren Oganesian was taken into in 1973.
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Khoren Oganesian was scoring a lot from the first matches of the Top League.
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Khoren Oganesian had the ability to hit accurately with his left leg, was a skilled organizer, and had precise percussive attacks.
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In February 1984, Khoren Oganesian scored his one hundredth goal, which made him a member of the Grigory Fedotov club.
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Khoren Oganesian scored with his heel in a match against CSKA Moscow in 1983 in Moscow and scored, the ball flying through the goal net, in a match against Neftchi in 1981, in Yerevan.
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Khoren Oganesian became the captain of Ararat Yerevan in the early 1980s.
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Khoren Oganesian took part in the farewell match of Oleg Blokhin, the all-time Soviet top goalscorer, in 1989.
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Khoren Oganesian helped the Uzbek football club get to the big leagues.
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In 1991, in a match against Dynamo Kyiv, Khoren Oganesian tore his Achilles tendon and was out for the season.
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Khoren Oganesian left Pakhtakor that year and began to take up managing.
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Khoren Oganesian played 305 matches and scored 93 goals in the Soviet Top League seasons.
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Khoren Oganesian was listed on the 33 best players of the season five times, thrice as the best.
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In 1975, Khoren Oganesian joined the Soviet Union national under-21 football team, coached by Valentin Nikolayev.
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Khoren Oganesian was a part of the Soviet youth team when it won the UEFA Euro 1976 U-21.
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Khoren Oganesian's skill were noticed by the coaches of the Soviet Union national football team, which he started playing for in 1979, when the team was managed by Konstantin Beskov.
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Khoren Oganesian did not play because of a concussion received in the quarterfinals.
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Khoren Oganesian became the first Armenian player to take part in the World Cup.
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Khoren Oganesian scored one goal in the second group stage against Belgium.
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Khoren Oganesian concluded playing for the national team of the country in 1984.
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Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Khoren Oganesian moved back to Armenia.
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Khoren Oganesian, at this time, was a player-coach for the club.
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Khoren Oganesian led the squad to victory in the Armenian Supercup in 1996 and 1998.
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In mid-December 2011, Khoren Oganesian started coaching Lokomotiv Tashkent, which played in the last season in the Uzbek League.
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Khoren has a daughter Edita Oganesian and a son, Zhora Hovhannisyan, who is a football player.
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Khoren Oganesian was managing the clubs Pyunik Yerevan and Lokomotiv Tashkent while Zhora was playing for them.