IT’S GOING TO BE TENSE
Support A1+!The Armenian national football team is getting ready for the World Cup Qualifying match with Turkey due on September 6. Chief Coach Yan Poulsen invited 25 candidates last week for the gathering, but just now only 22 footballers are involved in the team, and 18 of them will be engaged in the match-list and meet Turkish players.
“Turkish tournament has just started, whereas the Armenian Championship is in its decisive stage,” said the assistant of the Chief Coach of Armenian team Vardan Minasian, “Our players playing abroad for different clubs have underwent numerous matches and haven’t got any problems with practice. All this makes us conclude that we have a privilege in terms of footballers’ sport state at this instance. But we shouldn’t forget that the opponent is Bronze-medalist of Europe Championship”.
In Mr. Minasian’s view the upcoming match promises a breathtaking football. “It’ll be tense and beautiful and winning the match or even drawing it can be a good result for us, a good start in the qualifying stage.”
Vardan Miansyan also pointed out that compared to “Euro-2008” there had been big changes in the national team of Turkey. “We were expecting Turks to arrive in Yerevan with completely another staff. It was what really happened and now we can evidence several new names among the members of the published list. We are informed that Nihat Kahveci and Hamid Altintop have injuries and 2 more players have also joined them lately. Some young footballers have been invited. Anyway, Turkish team is a better experienced team than Armenian one”.
