23 Facts About Sargis Hovsepyan

Sargis Hovsepyan is an Armenian professional football coach and a former player who played as a right-back.

Sargis Hovsepyan participated in 133 international matches and scored two goals since his debut in the national team's first game in a home friendly match against Moldova on 14 October 1992.

Sargis Hovsepyan ended his career on 14 November 2012 at the age of 39, just over a month before turning 40 years old.

Sargis Hovsepyan was the last member of the first Armenia national team to retire.

Sargis Hovsepyan played his first match at the professional level when he was seventeen.

Sargis Hovsepyan had then started competing in the Armenian Premier League of his independent homeland.

Sargis Hovsepyan first joined Lori Vanadzor in 1991 and was transferred to Pyunik Yerevan the following year.

Sargis Hovsepyan immediately became the first star of the country.

Sargis Hovsepyan was named Armenian Footballer of the Year again for 1995, becoming the first player to receive the award twice.

Sargis Hovsepyan was switched clubs in 1997 to 1998 and spent the next part of his club career in Russia.

Anatoliy Byshovets had acquired Sargis Hovsepyan and took him into Zenit St Petersburg.

Zenit coach Anatoli Davydov later believed Sargis Hovsepyan to be suited for right-back.

Sargis Hovsepyan began to receive the interest of CSKA Moscow and Lokomotiv Moscow.

Suffice it to say that in the list of 33 best for the season of 2002, Sargis Hovsepyan was in second place - just after Sergei Ignashevich.

Sargis Hovsepyan was unable to fit into the new tactical realities.

Apparently, the defender simply agreed whatever the coach felt, and in the summer of 2003, Sargis Hovsepyan left Zenit and was forced on the transfer list.

Play the game in 2003 at the club Torpedo-Metallurg, Sargis Hovsepyan returned to Pyunik and left from Russia.

Sargis Hovsepyan won a lot of national trophies in 2008 and won the Armenian Footballer of the Year award for a third time in 2008.

Sargis Hovsepyan is the first player to win the award three times, a feat that has only been matched by Henrikh Mkhitaryan.

Sargis Hovsepyan has been on the winning team of the Armenian Premier League for nine seasons, the most of any player in the history of the League.

That same night, Sargis Hovsepyan received a standing ovation from the Yerevan Republican Stadium audience.

Sargis Hovsepyan was the last member of the original Armenia national team to retire.

Sargis Hovsepyan has a son, who is training with Pyunik and plays for their junior club.