Artur Voskanyan (, born 13 August 1976) is an Armenian

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coach and former player who is the manager of the academy of

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Club career

Artur Voskanyan began his career in Zvartnots Echmiadzin, for which he played 11 games in his first season. At that time, he was still 17 years old. Zvartnots soon had a number of unsuccessful performances and soon became SKA-Arai Echmiadzin and was demoted from the

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to the

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. After leaving the club, Voskanyan moved to Van Yerevan. He managed to play only two seasons for Van, as the club was disbanded after the 1996–97 season. In 1998, Voskanyan joined Tsement Ararat. The club won the 1998 Armenian Premier League that season and also the 1998

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and 1998

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. Voskanyan was given the

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award in 1998 by the

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International career

Voskanyan debuted in the Armenia national team on 27 March 1999 in a home

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match against

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, in which Armenia was defeated 3–0. Over his entire time playing for the Armenia national squad, he made 52 appearances and scored one goal in a game against the Maltese national team. In March 2010, Voskanyan was invited to the national team after having last played a year before. He left the national team that same year.

Managerial career

On 8 December 2015 he has appointed as Head coach of Armenia under-17 football team.

Personal life

Artur is married and has two children, a girl and a boy. His younger brother, Ara Voskanyan, was also a football player.

Career statistics

Honours

Tsement Ararat *

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...

; third place

2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...

: 1998 *

: 1998 Banants Yerevan * Armenian Premier League runner-up:

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

; third place

2002 The effects of the September 11 attacks of the previous year had a significant impact on the affairs of 2002. The war on terror was a major political focus. Without settled international law, several nations engaged in anti-terror operation ...

* Armenian Cup runner-up: 2009, 2010 * Armenian Supercup runner-up: 2010 Pyunik Yerevan * Armenian Premier League:

2005 2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...

2006 2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification. Events January * January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute. * January 12 – A stampede during t ...

* Armenian Cup runner-up: 2006 * Armenian Supercup: 2005; runner-up 2006 Ararat Yerevan * Armenian Cup runner-up: 2007 Individual *

: 1998

References

External links

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armfootball.tripod.com
* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Voskanyan, Artur 1976 births Living people Footballers from Yerevan Armenian men's footballers Men's association football midfielders Armenia men's international footballers Armenian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Russia Expatriate men's footballers in Cyprus Expatriate men's footballers in Belarus Armenian Premier League players Russian Premier League players Cypriot First Division players FC Elista players FC Urartu players Digenis Akritas Morphou FC players Ethnikos Achna FC players FC Pyunik players FC Ararat Yerevan players FC Vitebsk players Armenian football managers FC Urartu managers