Yuriy Sarkisyan

This name uses Eastern Slavic naming customs; the patronymic is Vazgenovich and the family name is Sarkisyan.
Yuriy Sarkisyan
Personal information
Full nameYuriy Vazgenovich Sarkisyan
Date of birth30 May 1947
Place of birthOlmaliq, Uzbek SSR, Soviet Union
Playing positionForward
Club information
Current team
Bunyodkor (assistant)
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
19681969Metallurg Olmaliq(14)
19701973Avtomobilist Termez(30)
1974Spartak Termez30(19)
1975Avtomobilist Termez(14)
19761977Neftyanik Fergana(42)
1978Shakhrikhanez(21)
19791982Neftyanik Fergana96(75)
Teams managed
19872013Neftchi Farg'ona
1996Uzbekistan
2000Uzbekistan
2014Bunyodkor (assistant coach)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
† Appearances (Goals).

Yuriy Vazgenovich Sarkisyan (Russian: Юрий Вазгенович Саркисян; born 30 May 1947) is a football manager and former player.

Playing career

He started footballer career in 1968 at Metallurg from Olmaliq. From 1970 to 1973 played for Avtomobilist Termez. His last player station was Neftyanik Fergana where he later began managing career.[1] In his footballer career he completed 14 seasons and 10 times became top scorer of teams he played. With 241 goals he is member of Club 200 of Berador Abduraimov.[2]

Managing career

In 1987 he became manager of Neftchi Farg'ona. Since 1990 he is Merited Trainer of Uzbekistan. From 1992 to 1995 Sarkisyan won with Neftchi Farg'ona five times Uzbek League. From July 2000 to February 2000 he was coach of Uzbekistan national football team. He was named by UFF five times as Coach of the Year, more than any other uzbek coach ever.[3]

On 16 May 2013 Sarkisyan was sacked as Neftchi coach after club's poor result in recent league matches.[4][5] He worked at the club for last 26 years. Sarkisyan was named in uzbek mass media Uzbek Ferguson for long years managing work in Neftchi Farg'ona.

Honours

Manager

Individual

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