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MKHITARYAN WILL BE PERFECT REPLACEMENT FOR GOTZE - BUNDESLIGA.COM
July 12, 2013
Borussia Dortmund needed a technically gifted, goalscoring midfielder
to replace the departed Mario Gotze in the 2013/14 summer transfer
window and they seem to have found the ideal candidate in Henrikh
Mkhitaryan, Bundesliga.com reports.
"Although born in the Armenian capital of Yerevan on 21 January 1989,
Mkhitaryan spent his childhood years in southeastern France. His
father, Hamlet, a respected professional player in his homeland, who
would go on to become an Armenian international, accepted an offer to
move to France and play for the now defunct ASOA Valence just months
after Henrikh's birth. Tragically, Hamlet died of a brain tumor at
the age of just 33, after which the Mkhitaryans left France to move
back to Yerevan in 1995.
"Mkhitaryan joined Yerevan's biggest club FC Pyunik in 1995, developing
into one of the country's most talented players. After three seasons in
Pyunik's senior team, he left Armenia for Ukrainian Premier League side
FC Metalurh Donetsk in 2009. Following a staggering first season in
which he scored 14 goals and became the club's youngest-ever captain,
he moved across the city to Shakhtar.
With the Pitmen he simply got better, helping them win three successive
domestic doubles and becoming the division's top scorer in 2012/13
with 25 goals.
"The [Borussia] fans should therefore have no qualms about learning
to hum along to the famous Sabre Dance by the Armenian composer Aram
Khachaturian, the song that was played whenever he scored for Shakhtar.
"He was voted his country's Footballer of the Year in 2009, 2011
and 2012, as well as the CIS (Baltic and Commonwealth of Independent
States) Footballer of the Year in 2012. Lived abroad as a child has
given Mkhitaryan a talent for learning languages. As well as his mother
tongue Armenian, he speaks French, Russian, English and Portuguese,"
Bundesliga.com writes.
NEWS.am Sport
July 12, 2013
Borussia Dortmund needed a technically gifted, goalscoring midfielder
to replace the departed Mario Gotze in the 2013/14 summer transfer
window and they seem to have found the ideal candidate in Henrikh
Mkhitaryan, Bundesliga.com reports.
"Although born in the Armenian capital of Yerevan on 21 January 1989,
Mkhitaryan spent his childhood years in southeastern France. His
father, Hamlet, a respected professional player in his homeland, who
would go on to become an Armenian international, accepted an offer to
move to France and play for the now defunct ASOA Valence just months
after Henrikh's birth. Tragically, Hamlet died of a brain tumor at
the age of just 33, after which the Mkhitaryans left France to move
back to Yerevan in 1995.
"Mkhitaryan joined Yerevan's biggest club FC Pyunik in 1995, developing
into one of the country's most talented players. After three seasons in
Pyunik's senior team, he left Armenia for Ukrainian Premier League side
FC Metalurh Donetsk in 2009. Following a staggering first season in
which he scored 14 goals and became the club's youngest-ever captain,
he moved across the city to Shakhtar.
With the Pitmen he simply got better, helping them win three successive
domestic doubles and becoming the division's top scorer in 2012/13
with 25 goals.
"The [Borussia] fans should therefore have no qualms about learning
to hum along to the famous Sabre Dance by the Armenian composer Aram
Khachaturian, the song that was played whenever he scored for Shakhtar.
"He was voted his country's Footballer of the Year in 2009, 2011
and 2012, as well as the CIS (Baltic and Commonwealth of Independent
States) Footballer of the Year in 2012. Lived abroad as a child has
given Mkhitaryan a talent for learning languages. As well as his mother
tongue Armenian, he speaks French, Russian, English and Portuguese,"
Bundesliga.com writes.
NEWS.am Sport