Gagik Daghbashyan

Gagik Daghbashyan (Armenian: Գագիկ Դաղբաշյան, born 19 October 1990) is an Armenian football player who plays defender for the Armenian national team and for Armenian club Alashkert.

Club Career

From an early age, Gagik Daghbashyan was fascinated about football. He also had the opportunity to engage in other sports (dance, karate, aikido). His passion for football was stronger and he decided to pursue a football career. At 12 years of age, Daghbashyan began to take his first steps at the football school of Banants Yerevan. In 2007, he was advocated tp Banants-2 and played in the Armenian First League. In the same year, Daghbashyan debuted for Banants in the Armenian Premier League. On November 10, 2007, in the 28 round against Kilikia, he came off the bench at the 75th minute, replacing Yegishe Melikyan.

In January 2015 he joined Slovak Fortuna Liga Club MFK Ruzomberok after signing a one and half-year contract.

International Career

At the age of 18, he made his debut in the Armenia U-21 youth team in the qualifying matches for the 2011 FIFA U-20 World Cup. The match was held on June 5, 2009 in Switzerland against the local Switzerland youth team, which lost to Armenia 1-2. In the following match, which took place three days later, Daghbashyan also took part and played on the field longer. He was again entrusted to play at the 2013 FIFA U-20 World Cup qualifying match two years later on June 7, 2011, when the Armenian youth team defeated Montenegro 4-1.

He made his debut in Armenian national football team on 28 February 2012 in a friendly match in Limassol against Serbia (0:2 defeat).

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