Nikita Pavlovich Simonjan

Nikita Simonyan
Simonjan in 2011
Personnel
Surname	Nikita Pavlovich Simonjan
birthday	October 12, 1926
place of birth	Armavir ,  Soviet Union
size	172 cm
position	striker
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1944-1945	Dinamo Sukhum
1946-1948	Krylya Sovetov Moscow	52 00(9)
1949-1959	Spartak Moscow	213 (133)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1954-1958	Soviet Union	20 0(10)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1960-1965	Spartak Moscow
1967-1972	Spartak Moscow
1973-1974	Ararat Yerevan
1977-1979	Soviet Union
1980-1981	Chornomorets Odessa
1984-1985	Ararat Yerevan
1 Only league games are given.

Nikita Pavlovich Simonjan ( Russian: Никита Павлович Симонян ; born October 12, 1926 in Armavir , Soviet Union ) is a former Russian football player and coach of Armenian origin. His greatest successes as a player included four Soviet football championships with Spartak Moscow (1952, 1953, 1956, 1958), as a coach he won a total of three championship titles with Spartak Moscow (1962, 1969) and with Ararat Yerevan (1973).

life and career

As a player

Nikita Simonyan was as Mkrtytsch Simonyan in an Armenian family in the southern Russian Armavir born. The striker began playing football at the Abkhazian club Dinamo Sukhum under coach Schota Lominadze . From there he moved to Krylja Sowetow Moscow in 1946 , until he was finally noticed by the Soviet record champions Spartak Moscow . In 1949 Simonjan finally moved to Spartak and thus also to the highest Soviet league , where he was to remain until the end of his career. By 1959 he completed a total of 213 league games for the Muscovites, in which he scored 133 goals. 133 goals are the club's internal record to date.

With Spartak, he won four championship titles and the Soviet football cup twice . In 1954 Simonjan was also called up for the first time in the Soviet national team. At the 1956 Summer Olympics , Simonjan even won the gold medal in football with the national team. The 1958 world championship finals were not nearly successful for him. Already in the quarter-finals he failed with the selection team against later finalists Sweden , when he, like his colleagues Sergei Salnikow , Anatoli Iljin , Wiktor Zarjow and Alexander Ivanov, failed to score in the assault row and the game after goals from Kurt Hamrin and Agne Simonsson with a 0 : 2 defeat ended.

In the same year, after 20 international matches, Simonjan's national team career ended, and in 1959 he also ended his club career as a player.

As a trainer

In 1960 he started working as a coach for his old club Spartak. In 1962 he brought the championship to Moscow for the first time as a coach, and in 1963 and 1965 also the Soviet Football Cup. In 1965 his involvement with Spartak ended, but Simonyan was signed up again by the capital city in 1967. In his second term in office he was able to win the championship again (1969), as well as the trophy (1971). In 1972 his employment with Spartak ended.

In the 1973 season he was signed by Ararat Yerevan as the new coach. In his first year he was able to achieve the greatest success in the club's history with the Armenians: the Soviet double, consisting of a championship title and winning the cup. This was the only time that a club from Armenia could win the Soviet football championship. Already in 1974 Simonyan left the club from Yerevan again.

From 1977 to 1978 he was the coach of the Soviet national football team , from 1980 to 1981 he coached Chornomorets Odessa .

From 1984 to 1985 he was won again by Ararat Yerevan as a coach.

In 2000 he received the FIFA Order of Merit , the highest award from the world football association FIFA . From 2009 to 2010, as well as temporarily in 2012, Simonjan was President of the Russian Football Association . In 2011 the Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan awarded him the Medal of Honor of Armenia.

Web links

• Nikita Simonjan in the database of weltfussball.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.spox.com/de/sport/fussball/international/1207/News/russland-verpfliziert-fabio-capello-als-nationaltrainer-nikita-simonjan-rfu-moskau.html