Hiraç Yagan (, born 3 January 1989) is a retired

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. Born in Belgium, he represented

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at international level. He is currently the sporting director of Stade Lausanne Ouchy.

Club career

Standard Liège

Yagan began his career with Lierse S.K. and was scouted by

Standard Liège Royal Standard de Liège, commonly referred to as Standard Liège ( ; ; ) or simply Standard in Belgium, is a Belgian professional football club based in the city of Liège. They are one of the most successful clubs in Belgium, having won t ...

in July 2006. He scored on his debut for Standard Liège against

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on 14 February 2009. In January 2010, he was loaned out to Tubize until July 2010.

International career

Armenia U21

Though born in Belgium, Yagan chose to represent his country of descent and was called up for Armenia U-21 on 17 April 2009, just three days later played his first international match here. He scored his first goal on his second game against Switzerland U-21 on 4 September 2009.

Armenia national team

He made his debut for

against

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on 12 August 2009.

Western Armenia

Yagan has also turned out for

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, a team representing the Armenian indigenous people primarily from the region of

which lays in today's

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Management career

From 2017 to the end of 2019, Yagan was the president of Armenian club

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. Yagan retired at the end of the 2018–19 season and was appointed sporting director of

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Honours

;

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: 1 :: 2008/09

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