The Araks Ararat Herald
Squad9 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Araks Ararat
Sousa and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad9 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Araks Ararat
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Emerson Nike was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
Hovhannes Kirakosyan has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Araks Ararat will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
Albert Darbinyan knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Albert Darbinyan trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market9 Nov 2026
The Martin Grigoryan question follows Araks Ararat around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Martin Grigoryan’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
The manager makes Sergey Mikaelyan a promise
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Araks Ararat. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
In brief
- Market Araks Ararat put Demba Dièye up for sale
- Squad Freire starts on the language
- Squad Shirak Badalyan has settled at Araks Ararat
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Erik Azizyan