2024-09-15 16:06:28
As is known, on July 11, the Armenian refereeing staff, led by Andranik Arsenyan, officiated the match between “Inter” Turku (Finland) and “Vikingur” (Faroe Islands) of the first qualifying round of the European League. The game ended with a score of 0:1 and the Faroe Islands team advanced to the next round.
During the match, the referee representing Armenia, Andranik Arsenyan, awarded two penalty kicks to both teams. The Faroese took the penalty spot and the Finns missed.
Taking into account the fact that a bet of about 300,000 euros was placed in the bookmaker’s inquiry for both teams to score a goal in connection with that game, a problem arose with impartial refereeing, which caused doubts to arise about the main referee of the game Andranik. Regarding Arsenyan’s refereeing.
As ffa.am informs, various mass media have applied to the Press Secretariat of the FFA in this regard, in connection with which we would like to note that the Football Federation of Armenia is the number one interested party from the point of view of clarifying this issue and will pursue it until it is clarified. end, because it is related to the match with the participation of the Armenian referee.
Observations and professional discussions took place in the refereeing department of the FFA, however, considering that an investigation is currently underway, the Football Federation of Armenia will refrain from making assessments for the time being.