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Full name
  
Aghvan Papikyan

2005–2011
  
LKS Lodz

Weight
  
65 kg

Number
  
99

Height
  
1.73 m


Playing position
  
Midfielder

Role
  
Football player

Place of birth
  
Lodz, Poland

Name
  
Aghvan Papikyan

Career start
  
2011

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Date of birth
  
(1994-02-08) February 8, 1994 (age 21)

Current teams
  
Armenia national football team (Midfielder), GKS Belchatow (#16)

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Aghvan Papikyan (Armenian: Աղվան Պապիկյանը, born 8 February 1994 in Łódź) is an Armenian football midfielder who is currently play for Raków Częstochowa. He was also a member of the Armenian national team.

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Club career

Aghvan was a pupil of the football academy ŁKS Łódź. He completed the stages of the club academy along with his older brother Volodya. In 2011, he was included in the first team. Papikyan played 8 matches in total for Łódź.

In February 2013, he transferred to Spartak Moscow.

International career

Aghvan Papikyan has played for the junior and youth teams of Armenia. He has stated, "I play for the Armenia because that's where my roots are from and I feel Armenian." Papikyan had no desire to join the Polish national football team and couldn't anyway due to citizenship issues, but said he still "feels something towards Poland."

After a match between the Armenia U-21 and Armenia national teams on March 21, 2013, Papikyan was among three youth players chosen by the Football Federation of Armenia to join the senior team.

Personal life

Aghvan is the son of Armenian former football player and current football manager Arsen Papikyan and also has a one-year older brother Volodya who played midfielder for LKS Lodz with Aghvan and still plays for the team. His parents and brother were born in Armenia and decided to work and live to Poland, where Aghvan was born one year later. Although born in Poland, he does not hold Polish citizenship and never did, only temporary citizenship.

References

Aghvan Papikyan Wikipedia