Eduard Markarov

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Eduard Markarov
Personal information
Full name Eduard Artyomovich Markarov
Date of birth (1942-06-20) 20 June 1942 (age 81)
Place of birth
Azerbaijan SSR
Height 1.64 m (5 ft 5 in)
Position(s) Forward
Youth career
1954–1959 Lokomotiv Baku
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1960
Torpedo Armavir
1961–1970 Neftchi Baku 251 (88)
1971–1975 Ararat Yerevan 119 (41)
International career
1961–1962 Soviet Union U-20
1966–1968 Soviet Union 3 (0)
Managerial career
1976–1977 Ararat Yerevan
1984–1985 Ararat Yerevan (assistant)
1986–1991 Soviet Union U-21 (assistant)
1992
Malatia Yerevan
1992–1994 Armenia
1995–1996
Erebuni Yerevan
1998–1999 Homenmen Beirut
2000–2001 Mika Yerevan
2002 Mika Yerevan
2008
Kilikia Yerevan
2008–2010 Kilikia Yerevan (trainer-breeder)
2010– Mika Yerevan (Vice-president)
2011 Mika Yerevan (acting coach)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Eduard Artyomovich Markarov (

Torpedo Armavir, Neftchi Baku and Ararat Yerevan and for the Soviet Union national football team. In his career as a manager, his last team was the Armenian Premier League club Mika Yerevan
.

He was a member of the Ararat Yerevan team that won the

Armenian SSR
title in 1983.

Early life

Eduard Markarov was born in

Azerbaijan SSR to a family of Armenians in Azerbaijan. Their family name is the Russified version of Margaryan. Markarov is ethnically Armenian.[1]
His father was Master of Sport of the USSR football player Artyom Markarov. Following in the footsteps of his father, Eduard took an interest in football and often played the sport with his brothers in their family yard. His father became his first coach. At age 14, he began to train in the youth club of Lokomotiv Baku.

Club career

Markarov was personally invited by head coach Boris Arkadyev to play for his club Neftchi Baku in 1961. In the same year, Markarov was invited to the Soviet Union national under-20 football team. His forward partners in the club were Yuri Kuznetsov, Alakbar Mammadov, Adamas Golodets and Anatoliy Banishevskiy, whom all made up the main strikers of Neftchi. Despite the teamwork of the players, the national team rarely invited them, and even when they were invited, they almost never played together.

In 1971, Markarov moved to Ararat Yerevan. He had been receiving several injuries throughout the late 1960s, resulting in a change of clubs. Markarov had the most successful period of his career with this team. Ararat Yerevan won the 1973 Soviet Top League and the Soviet Cup in 1973 and 1975. These achievements are considered among the greatest milestones in the history of Armenian football to this day. Markarov played as one of the main strikers of Ararat during these years. In 1974, along with Gerd Muller was the top scorer of the European Cup.

In the 1974–75 European Cup, Markarov scored both goals in the 2-0 first victory over Viking and three of the goals in the 4-2 second victory. Ararat Yerevan advanced to the quarterfinals, where the team played two games against Bayern Munich, losing the first 0-2 and winning the second 1–0. Bayern moved on due to aggregate and went on to win the European Cup.[2] Markarov's five goals tied him with Gerd Müller as the top goalscorer of the European Cup.[3]

International career

Markarov played for the Soviet Union national under-20 football team from 1961 to 1962. He played three matches for the Soviet Union national football team and was a member of the Soviet national squad that competed at the 1966 FIFA World Cup. The national team came in fourth place.

Managerial career

His managing career started suddenly in 1976, hardly a year after he retired as a football player. Head coach

Kilikia Yerevan [1].[4] Markarov improved the team results, but they did not rise up from last place. At the end of the year, Makarov voluntarily resigned and moved to the position of trainer-breeder of the club from 2008 to 2010.[5] As of 2010, Markarov is the Vice-president of coaching issues and director of the football school of club Mika Yerevan. Following the leave of head coach of Mika Armen Shahgeldyan from his position, it had been proposed that Markarov would fill the vacancy.[6] Markarov worked as the acting head coach of Mika Yerevan from June to July 2011.[7]

Style of play

Markarov was highly technical, inventive, skillfully carried out passing, had distinguished artistry and always represented a danger to the goalkeeper and accurate kicker.

Career statistics

Club

Club Season League Cup Europe Super Cup Total
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Neftchi Baku 1961 11 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 11 1
1962 30 16 1 0 0 0 0 0 31 16
1963 37 12 1 0 0 0 0 0 38 12
1964 27 8 1 0 0 0 0 0 28 8
1965 31 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 31 10
1966 26 12 0 0 0 0 0 0 26 12
1967 31 14 5 3 0 0 0 0 36 17
1968 25 7 4 3 0 0 0 0 29 10
1969 14 5 4 3 0 0 0 0 14 5
1970 19 3 5 2 0 0 0 0 24 5
Total 251 88 18 8 0 0 0 0 269 96
Ararat Yerevan 1971 25 14 4 1 0 0 0 0 29 15
1972 22 2 2 0 4 2 0 0 28 4
1973 24 10 8 5 0 0 0 0 32 15
1974 21 5 5 2 3 5 0 0 29 12
1975 27 10 5 2 6 5 0 0 38 17
Total 119 41 24 10 13 12 0 0 156 63
Career Totals 370 129 42 18 13 12 0 0 425 159

Honours

Club

Player

Ararat Yerevan

Manager

Ararat Yerevan

Homenmen Beirut

Mika Yerevan

Country

Player

Soviet Union

Manager

Soviet Union U-21

Individual

References

  1. ^ "YIVO | Sport: Jews in Sport in the USSR". Archived from the original on 29 April 2015. Retrieved 4 February 2018.
  2. ^ "1974/75 European Champions Clubs' Cup - 1974/75 Matches". UEFA.com. Retrieved 6 May 2013.
  3. ^ "1974/75 European Champions Clubs' Cup - Statistics". UEFA.com. Retrieved 6 May 2013.
  4. ^ Ереванскую "Киликию" возглавил Эдуард Маркаров (in Russian). ARARAT 73. Archived from the original on 23 October 2013. Retrieved 6 May 2013.
  5. ^ МАРКАРОВ СТАЛ КОНСУЛЬТАНТОМ (in Russian). Vsesmi.ru. Retrieved 6 May 2013.
  6. ^ Маркаров возглавил "Мику" (in Russian). Armsport.am. Archived from the original on 28 November 2012. Retrieved 6 May 2013.
  7. ^ Маркаров будет работать до конца сезона (in Russian). Armsport.am. Archived from the original on 18 August 2011. Retrieved 6 May 2013.
  8. ^ a b Grigoryan Markarov - "Brazilians" Armenian football. - Yerevan, 2002.
  9. ^ Вик Дарчинян, Артур Абраам, Аркадий Андриасян и Эдуард Маркаров награждены медалью (in Russian). Armsport.am. Archived from the original on 22 July 2012. Retrieved 6 May 2013.
Bibliography
  • Grigoryan, Markarov (2002). "Brazilians" Armenian football. Yerevan, Armenia: Amaras. .

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