Varazdat Haroyan

Varazdat Haroyan
Personal information
Full name	Varazdat Haroyan
Date of birth	24 August 1992 (age 31)
Place of birth	Yerevan, Armenia
Height	2.01 m (6 ft 7 in)
Position(s)	Centre back
Team information
Current team	Pyunik Yerevan
Number	3
Senior career*
Years	Team
2008	Patani
2009–	Pyunik Yerevan
International career‡
2009–2010	Armenia U19
2010–	Armenia U21
2011–	Armenia
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 15 June 2012; ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 15 June 2012

Varazdat Haroyan (Armenian: Վարազդատ Հարոյան, born on 24 August 1992 in Yerevan, Armenia) is an Armenian football player who currently plays centre back defender for the Armenian national team and for Armenian Premier League club Pyunik Yerevan.

Club career

Varazdat Haroyan started football at the football school Pyunik Yerevan. In 2008, he played for Patani, for which played in the first 17 years of the major league clubs. It had to do with the fact that players who do not play for their team often every game. Haroyan was one of these players at that time.

In 2009, he made his debut as a starter for Pyunik in the Armenian Premier League match against Gandzasar in Yerevan. Haroyan came off the bench in place of Arthur Yedigaryan at 90 minutes. That season Pyunik became the 2009 Armenian Premier League champion. Starting in 2010, Haroyan had always been a team regular, and becoming the 2010 Armenian Premier League champion and the winning the 2010 Armenian Cup and 2010 Armenian Supercup.

In March 2012, he became known to the interest of the German club 1. FC Köln, which sent an official invitation to Haroyan. Haroyan was earlier invited to attend the viewing, but in March 2012, decided to go to Germany.^[1]