2024-06-09 05:05:10
No less than within the final 4-5 years, the heads of home sports activities pocketed the chance of Henrikh Mkhitaryan to be included among the many 10 greatest sportsmen, Ruben Hayrapetyan, the president of the Soccer Federation of Armenia, stated on “Azatutyan” air.
“The federation was not dissatisfied with the voting, however moderately the farce that has been perpetrated for years, not contemplating soccer as a sport in any respect, they tried to not embrace a soccer participant even within the checklist to take part within the voting,” Hayrapetyan emphasised, including: “The issue right here is that we now have a world-famous soccer participant who performs at a really excessive degree in all worldwide arenas, is the captain of our nationwide crew, who does the whole lot for our crew to succeed. And the truth that our crew didn’t grow to be a world or European award winner doesn’t imply that soccer will not be a sport. We are able to say with the identical success: Why was Khoren Hovhannisyan acknowledged among the many prime 10 sportsmen of Armenia for 10 years, when “Ararat” was not the champion?”
Hayrapetyan responded to the remark that the checklist of the most effective athletes included those that gained sure prizes within the European or World Championships, whereas the nationwide soccer crew has not but recorded such success. “There is no such thing as a downside, in that case, allow them to change the identify, not “10 greatest athletes”, however “10 greatest Olympic champions” or “10 greatest world champions” or “world prize winners”, then there can be no downside. Nevertheless it has all the time been accepted, even since Soviet instances, that the ten greatest athletes have been chosen and all sports activities have been all the time included in them, in any case, soccer can be a sport. “Soccer, whether or not some sports activities leaders prefer it or not, is the most well-liked sport.”
“The very best athletes have been chosen by the general public, our individuals need soccer to be a sport. Neither the president of the weightlifting federation, nor the minister of sports activities, nor the president of the soccer federation determined that,” he stated.
Ruben Hayrapetyan emphasised that Henrikh Mkhitaryan made Armenia far more recognizable than different athletes.
Yesterday, let’s remind, after the awarding ceremony of the ten greatest athletes of Armenia held on the sports activities live performance advanced, the Greco-Roman Olympic champion, three-time world and four-time European champion Artur Aleksanyan expressed his dissatisfaction with the ten and the voting process in a dialog with journalists.
“I don’t agree with these outcomes. We had world, European medalists this 12 months that have been left off this checklist. For my part, that is the fault of the Ministry of Sports activities, maybe they organized the voting incorrectly. “If the deputy minister of sports activities says it’s truthful, what’s truthful about it,” he stated.
Let’s remind that on December 25, the voting for the ten greatest athletes of the 12 months in Armenia ended. The ten greatest athletes have been decided because of residents’ sms and voting by accredited journalists.
Artur Aleksanyan, the champion of the Olympic Video games, world and Europe, gained because of the voting of 23 accredited journalists.
Because of residents’ sms voting, Armenian nationwide crew midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan acquired probably the most messages – 6195 votes.
Thus, because of the overall voting, the highest ten athletes of the 12 months are the captain of the Armenian nationwide crew Henrikh Mkhitaryan with 9,897.62 votes, the second place is the Olympic, world and European champion Artur Aleksanyan with 7,686.50 votes, the third place is Levon Aronian with 6,148.59 votes. votes, Grigor Mkhitaryan is in 4th place with 4377.62 votes, Maxim Manukyan is in fifth place with 4377.62 votes, Bachkov Hovhannes is in sixth place with 3953.65 votes, Simon Martiroysan is in seventh place with 3683.72 votes, Edgar Stepanyan is in eighth place. 2503.92 votes, Artur Tovmasyan in ninth place with 2485.95 votes, Tigran Kirakosyan in tenth place with 2196.90 votes.