Hiraç Yagan
Hiraç Yagan ( armen. Հիրաչ Յագան, Hiratsch Jagan, born January 3, 1989 in Etterbeek, Belgium ) is an Armenian- Belgian footballer on the position of midfielder. He is now at the Belgian club Standard Liege under contract and is also since 2009 A-National player of Armenia.
Career
Career start in Etterbeek
The son of Armenian immigrants began his active career as a football player in 1995 in his hometown of central Belgian Etterbeek, where the newcomers FC Etterbeek Armenia he was active first. At the club, which consists almost entirely of players with Armenian migration Hinder reason he went through to 2002, all youth teams before was opened, a further change. This time it was for the dedicated striker in the not far distant Woluwe -Saint -Lambert, where he was admitted to the youth of White Star Woluwe, a currently playing in the Belgian third division club. There he spent more instructive to 2005 years in youth before him the chance was offered in 2005 to enter the junior level of professional clubs.
So it was that Yagan moved in the same year in the youth department of the Lierse SK who was still present at that time in the highest Belgian football league. Until 2007 it held the young Armenian- midfielder in his youth, before he, to be included in the senior squad due to the hopelessness, left the club. This was followed by a promising move to Standard Liege, where he eventually up to his age of 22 was used mainly in the youth teams and in the U-21 team. However, he made it already in the 2008 /09 season in the first team of the team and was still used in the same season in league play.
Professional debut at Standard Liege
To his professional debut for the Walloons Yagan finally came on 14 February 2009 when he came on the lawn in a 4-0 home win over his later Leihverein, the AFC Tubize, in the 73 minutes for the Belgian Steven Defour top talent. As the game progresses the Armenian- Belgian dual nationality succeeded in the 87th minute after an assist by Igor de Camargo to make the score 4-0 late on. However, bitter taste was the yellow card that was Yagan in the 91st minute, shortly before the final whistle. Another brief appearance followed for the 1.78 m wide midfielder 18 April 2009 in a 3-0 away win over Excelsior Mouscron. At the end of the season Standard Liege celebrated the tenth overall championship title in the highest Belgian league in the club's history after the RSC Anderlecht was defeated in the championship playoff after equal points at the end of the season. In the two playoff games in which Yagan, however, was not used, Liege first reached a draw and could win the second game by a penalty from Axel Witsel 1-0 and so crowned Belgian champions. In addition, the Armenian origin player of Belgian Supercup winner was after his team defeated without Yagans participation KRC Genk 2-0.
After the automatic qualification for the UEFA Champions League 2009/10 Yagan came mainly in the U-21 team of the club to use and was allowed on 27 October 2009 recorded a 86- minute use in the Belgian Cup of the season 2009/10 season. End of January 2010, he was finally awarded along with Jonathan Mendes at the AFC Tubize who has his game operating in the sub-prime KNVB -League. In Tubize Yagan was only sporadically in championship games used. After his return to Standard Liege in June 2010 Yagan is still in the squad of the U-21 team and the professional team with gaming operations in Belgium, the highest football league.
Internationally
In 2009, Yagan was first appointed to the cadre of Armenian U-21 National Team, currently still participates with the on qualifying U-21 European Championship. He completed to date ( as at 23 July 2010) six of the previous eight qualifying matches of his team and ranks with the team currently in group 2 in fourth place. His U-21 national team debut Yagan on June 9, 2009, when he stood in the 2:5 home defeat against the Turkish U -21 from the start on the field and was replaced from the 60 minutes by David Manoyan. About three months later he scored in only his second U-21 international match, in which he stood in the square over the entire playing time, his first U-21 hits. In the 1:3 home defeat against the U-21 national team of Switzerland, he scored in the tenth minute after a corner play the hits for a 1-1 draw after previously Xavier Hochstrasser minute 4 for 1-0 lead the Swiss had taken.
Just a day after his second U-21 international duty graduated Yagan his second game in the senior national team of his native country when he came off the bench in the 0-2 home defeat against Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 72nd minute for Arthur Yedigaryan. After the game, which was part of the qualification of Armenia for the Football World Cup 2010, Yagan difference with the Armenians as a group bottom of Group 5 in qualifying for the World Cup from. His senior team debut, the young midfielder is already on 12 August 2009 in a friendly match against Moldova. In the 1:4 home defeat it was used in the 58th minute for Yeghia Yavruyan.