Michel the Zakarian

Michel the Zakarian
Michel The Zakarian, 2013
Personnel
birthday	18th February 1963
place of birth	Yerevan ,  Armenian SSR , USSR
size	180 cm
position	Defense
Juniors
Years	station
	Vivaux Maronniers Sports
	AS Mazargues
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1979-1988	FC Nantes	140 0(1)
1988-1998	HSC Montpellier	233 (15)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1996-1997	Armenia	5 0(0)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1998-1999	HSC Montpellier III
1999-2006	HSC Montpellier II
2006	FC Nantes II
2006-2007	FC Nantes (assistant coach)
2007-2009	FC Nantes
2009–2012	Clermont Foot
2012-2016	FC Nantes
2016-2017	Stade Reims
2017–	HSC Montpellier
1 Only league games are given.

Michel Der Zakarian ( Armenian Միշել Տեր-Զաքարյան ; born February 18, 1963 in Yerevan ) is a former Armenian football player and current coach who also has French citizenship . He is currently training the French first division club HSC Montpellier . In his playing days he was a defender .

Career

youth

At the age of six, Der Zakarian began playing football for the Marseille club Vivaux Maronniers Sports. In 1974 he moved to AS Mazargues , a club that is also in Marseille. He stayed there for five years until the professional club FC Nantes signed him.

Professional teams

Signed in 1979, Der Zakarian played 140 times for FC Nantes in nine years and scored one goal. In 1988 he moved to the then league competitor Montpellier HSC . There he ended his active career ten years later. He came to 233 appearances and 15 goals.

Trainer

After his career at Montpellier, Der Zakarian initially took over the 3rd team before coaching the 2nd team from 1999. In 2006 he was briefly coach of the 2nd team in Nantes, after which he was co-coach for one year and head coach since February 2007. After relegation, he moved to Clermont Foot in the summer of 2009 . In 2012 he returned to Nantes as head coach, made promotion to Ligue 1 with the team and consolidated the club in the lower midfield. In April 2016, Der Zakarian announced that they would be leaving the club at the end of the season.

In 2016/17 Michel Der Zakarian Stade Reims trained before taking over the first team at HSC Montpellier at the end of this season .

Web links

• Michel Der Zakarian in the database of weltfussball.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ espnfc.com: Michel Der Zakarian to step down as Nantes coach article from April 26, 2016