Vardan Minasyan, the head coach of the national football team of Armenia, met with the representatives of the mass media before the friendly match with the national team of Lithuania tomorrow at the “Republican” stadium. From the beginning, it was planned that Sargis Hovsepyan would also participate in the press conference, for whom tomorrow’s game means goodbye to big football. However, the perennial captain of our national team was not present at the meeting with journalists.
Speaking about the preparation process for the upcoming match, Vardan Minasyan announced that Sargis Hovsepyan is included in the team’s roster. Yura Movsisyan will not participate in the upcoming game due to injury, defender Hrayr Mkoyan has also been sidelined for the same reason. The case of Artyom Khachaturov is in progress. He very much wants to play for the Armenian national team and is currently in the process of document formation. Artyom is a tall football player, his game makes a good impression. The current head coach of that team, Romanian Mihai Stoikitsa, who once led the Armenian national team, expressed a good opinion about the Moldovan “Sheriff” attacker.
Artur Sarkisov has a slight injury, and Robert Arzumanyan spent 90 minutes in his club before arriving in Yerevan and is tired. These are the main issues at the moment.
Vardan Minasyan also mentioned that, despite the existence of these problems, there will be no tests in the upcoming game. As you can see, the coaching staff of the Armenian national team wants to close the year with a victory and approach the responsible spring matches with that attitude.
Vardan Minasyan tried to describe Sargis Hovsepyan as well.
“Sargis Hovsepyan, to be honest, is a great professional and a legendary football player. We should try to appreciate a person when he is with us. Now many people say that it would be good if Sargis continued to perform in the national team, but when he played, they said the opposite. Now we have to appreciate him. Of course, Hovsepyan will always stay by the side of the team, will follow the game of our players abroad.
The decision to leave the team is Sargsin’s, and I always wanted him to stay. He was an example for young football players, an irreplaceable example,” the coach of the national team said.
The national team of Armenia is preparing for the 2014 world championship with the Czech team with a test match with the Lithuanian national team. in the meeting to be held on March 26 within the framework of the championship qualifying round. Due to disqualification, three Armenian football players will not participate in that match.
“Yes, with this friendly match we are preparing for the match with the Czechs. We have a serious problem of wing defenders and defensive midfielders. It is necessary to understand who we will choose for the specified positions. However, there are a few months until the game with the Czechs, and I hope that there will be new names in the meantime. “Now we have two new names in the team for the position of central midfielder: Masis Voskanyan and Karen Muradyan,” said V. Minasyan.
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