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ARMENIA STAR PACHAJYAN OFF TO SWEDEN
UEFA
Jan 21 2008
Switzerland
GAIS Goteborg have signed Armenian Player of the Year Levon Pachajyan
from FC Pyunik on a four-year contract. The 24-year-old midfielder
scored ten times in 23 appearances as Pyunik secured a seventh straight
league title in November and was ever-present for Armenia in 2007.
Pyunik departures He becomes the fourth key player to leave Pyunik
during the transfer window following the departures of Agvan Lazarian,
Aleksandr Tadevosyan and Robert Arzumanyan, joining a GAIS side
sitting fourth from bottom in the Swedish Allsvenskan. Pachajyan
arrived at Pyunik in 2003 and won the Armenian championship in each
of his five seasons with the club. He admitted in December, however,
that it was time to test himself abroad and after impressing on trial
with GAIS he took the plunge.
Overseas dream "Every Armenian player dreams of playing for a top
European club and playing in a major league," said Pachajyan, who
has been capped 18 times. "It is exactly the same for me. It is a
massive honour to play for a big European club, but it is hard to
earn a move to one. First you have to establish yourself in one of
the more modest leagues."
UEFA
Jan 21 2008
Switzerland
GAIS Goteborg have signed Armenian Player of the Year Levon Pachajyan
from FC Pyunik on a four-year contract. The 24-year-old midfielder
scored ten times in 23 appearances as Pyunik secured a seventh straight
league title in November and was ever-present for Armenia in 2007.
Pyunik departures He becomes the fourth key player to leave Pyunik
during the transfer window following the departures of Agvan Lazarian,
Aleksandr Tadevosyan and Robert Arzumanyan, joining a GAIS side
sitting fourth from bottom in the Swedish Allsvenskan. Pachajyan
arrived at Pyunik in 2003 and won the Armenian championship in each
of his five seasons with the club. He admitted in December, however,
that it was time to test himself abroad and after impressing on trial
with GAIS he took the plunge.
Overseas dream "Every Armenian player dreams of playing for a top
European club and playing in a major league," said Pachajyan, who
has been capped 18 times. "It is exactly the same for me. It is a
massive honour to play for a big European club, but it is hard to
earn a move to one. First you have to establish yourself in one of
the more modest leagues."