Aghvan Papikyan
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Personal information | |||
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Full name | Aghvan Papikyan | ||
Date of birth | February 8, 1994 | ||
Place of birth | Łódź, Poland | ||
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Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
Team information | |||
Current team
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GKS Bełchatów | ||
Number | 99 | ||
Youth career | |||
2005–2011 | ŁKS Łódź | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2011–2013 | ŁKS Łódź | 15 | (0) |
2013-2014 | Spartak Moscow | 0 | (0) |
2013–2014 | → FC Pyunik (loan) | 18 | (4) |
2014-2015 | Ulisses FC | 18 | (2) |
2015- | GKS Bełchatów | ||
International career‡ | |||
2010–2011 | Armenia U-17 | 3 | (1) |
2011 | Armenia U-19 | 6 | (1) |
2012 | Armenia U-21 | 2 | (1) |
2013 | Armenia | 1 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 1 August 2015 |
Aghvan Papikyan (Armenian: Աղվան Պապիկյանը, born 8 February 1994 in Łódź) is an Armenian football midfielder who is currently play for GKS Bełchatów. He was also a member of the Armenian national team.
Club career
Aghvan was a pupil of the football academy ŁKS Łódź. He completed the stages of the club academy along with his older brother Volodya.[1] In 2011, he was included in the first team. Papikyan played 8 matches in total for Łódź.
In February 2013, he transferred to Spartak Moscow.[2]
International career
Aghvan Papikyan has played for the junior and youth teams of Armenia. He has stated, "I play for the Armenia because that's where my roots are from and I feel Armenian." Papikyan had no desire to join the Polish national football team and couldn't anyway due to citizenship issues, but said he still "feels something towards Poland."[1]
After a match between the Armenia U-21 and Armenia national teams on March 21, 2013, Papikyan was among three youth players chosen by the Football Federation of Armenia to join the senior team.[3]
Personal life
Aghvan is the son of Armenian former football player and current football manager Arsen Papikyan and also has a one-year older brother Volodya who played midfielder for LKS Lodz with Aghvan and still plays for the team. His parents and brother were born in Armenia and decided to work and live to Poland, where Aghvan was born one year later. Although born in Poland, he does not hold Polish citizenship and never did, only temporary citizenship.[1][4]
References
External links
- Aghvan Papikyan profile at 90minut (Polish)
- Aghvan Papikyan – UEFA competition record
- Aghvan Papikyan at Soccerway
- footballdatabase.eu
- Pages using infobox football biography with height issues
- No local image but image on Wikidata
- Articles containing Armenian-language text
- Articles with Polish-language external links
- 1994 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Łódź
- Armenian footballers
- Polish footballers
- Armenia international footballers
- Armenian expatriate footballers
- Polish Armenians
- ŁKS Łódź players
- FC Spartak Moscow players
- Ekstraklasa players
- Armenia under-21 international footballers