Armenian Nationals Continued to Fare Well in their Respective Clubs

Those Armenian nationals who played on Armenia’s national team in the Euro 2012 qualifier against Slovakia last week continued to do well after they returned to their own football clubs.

 

On Friday, Henrikh Mkhitaryan was named best player in Shakhtar Donetsk, which won 5-1 in its match against another Ukrainian football club, FC Volyn Lutsk. On Saturday, Yura Movsisyan played an extraordinarily good game on FC Krasnodar’s team against Russian premier league FC Rubin Kazan. At the 5th minute, he scored a goal from the 11-meter mark, while at the start of the second half, he scored another goal that, however, the referee annulled. Until he was replaced at the 78th minute he continued to constantly put pressure on the opponent.

 

Armenian national team players Gevorg Ghazaryan and Marcos Pizzelli played successful games on Sunday as part of Ukraine’s FC Metalurh Donetsk. Ghazaryan was out on the field from the first minutes of the game, while Pizzelli came out in the second half. It was this Armenian pair that organized the only goal in the match against FC Obolon Kyiv.  Pizzelli struggled with the defender, who lost his grip on the ball which went toward Ghazaryan who didn’t miss this opportunity to score a goal.

 

Note, another Armenian national on Metlarh Donetsk’s team — Karlen Mkrtchyan — skipped this match due to injury.