Nikita Simonyan

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Olympic medal record
Men's Football
Gold	1956	Team

Nikita Simonyan
Personal information
Full name	Nikita Pavlovich Simonyan
Date of birth	October 12, 1926
Place of birth	Armavir, Russian SFSR, USSR
Height	172 cm
Playing position	Forward
Club information
Current club	retired
Youth clubs
?	Dynamo Sukhumi
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1946-1948 1949-1959	Krylya Sovetov Moscow Spartak Moscow	52(9) 233 (133)
National team
1954-1958	USSR	20 (10)
Teams managed
1960-1965 1967-1972 1973-1974 1977-1979 1980-1981 1984-1985	Spartak Moscow Spartak Moscow Ararat Yerevan USSR Chornomorets Ararat Yerevan
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Nikita (Mkrtych) Simonyan (Armenian: Նիկիտա (Մկրտիչ) Սիմոնյան, Russian: Никита Павлович Симонян) (born October 12, 1926 in Armavir) is a Soviet football striker of Armenian descent and manager who won a gold medal at the 1956 Summer Olympics.

He played for Krylya Sovetov Moscow (1946-1948) and Spartak Moscow (1949-1959). Simonyan made 20 appearances for USSR national football team, scoring 10 goals. After the end of his playing career he became a successful manager, coaching Spartak (1960-1965, 1967-1972), Ararat Yerevan (1973-1974, 1984-1985), Chornomorets Odessa (1980-1981) and USSR national football team (1977-1979).

Contents 1 Honours 1.1 As player 1.2 As manager 1.3 Decorations 2 External links

[edit] Honours

[edit] As player

• 1956 Gold Olympic medal
• 1952 1953 1956 1958 Soviet Top League
• 1950 1958 Soviet Cup
• 1949 1950 1953 Soviet Top League top goalscorer

[edit] As manager

• 1962 1969 Soviet Top League with Spartak Moscow
• 1973 Soviet Top League with Ararat Yerevan
• 1963 1965 1971 Soviet Cup with Spartak Moscow
• 1973 Soviet Cup with Ararat Yerevan

[edit] Decorations

• Order of the Red Banner of Labour
• Order of Friendship of Peoples
• Order of the Badge of Honor
• Olympic Order

[edit] External links

• (Russian) Profile and interview

	USSR squad - 1958 FIFA World Cup
1 Yashin | 2 Kesarev | 3 Kriglevski | 4 Kuznetsov | 5 Voinov | 6 Netto | 7 Apukhtin | 8 V. Ivanov | 9 Simonyan | 10 Salnikov | 11 Ilyin | 12 Maslachenko | 13 Belyaev | 14 Ostrovskiy | 15 Maslyonkin | 16 Tsarev | 17 A. Ivanov | 18 Bubukin | 19 Gusarov | 20 Falin | 21 Fiedosov | 22 Yerokhin | Coach: Kachalin