Grigor Spertsyan

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The Ararat-Armenia Herald

19 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market19 Jul 2027

Terms done: Luis Felipe is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Mika waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Ararat-Armenia is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

The dugout19 Jul 2027

Alexandros Malis says Ararat-Armenia went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad19 Jul 2027

Tempers go at Ararat-Armenia

João Bravim was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad19 Jul 2027

Words at Ararat-Armenia training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Edgar Grigoryan is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

The dugout19 Jul 2027

Arayik Eloyan gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Arayik Eloyan is on it.

The dugout19 Jul 2027

Luis Felipe gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Squad19 Jul 2027

A first team debut at 15 for Grigor Spertsyan

Off the academy pitches and into a senior shirt, at 15. The parents in the stand will keep the programme, and so will he.

Market19 Jul 2027

The João Bravim talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Ararat-Armenia know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

Squad19 Jul 2027

Daniil Zhitnikov: “I am not a substitute”

“I have done everything asked of me in training and it has not changed a thing on a Saturday.” The most familiar complaint in football, and one Ararat-Armenia will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.

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The Ararat-Armenia Herald

8 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings8 Mar 2027

Rob Nizet beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 33. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Boardroom8 Mar 2027

5 academy graduates step up at Ararat-Armenia

Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.

Squad8 Mar 2027

Kamo Hovhannisyan stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Kamo Hovhannisyan and Ararat-Armenia agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad8 Mar 2027

Home is on Alwyn Luheni Tera's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Ararat-Armenia are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

Squad8 Mar 2027

Edgar Grigoryan falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Squad8 Mar 2027

A falling-out at Ararat-Armenia

Karen Muradyan and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Market8 Mar 2027

Arman Ghazaryan steps up from the Ararat-Armenia academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Arman Ghazaryan has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market8 Mar 2027

One of our own: Grigor Spertsyan joins the Ararat-Armenia first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Grigor Spertsyan is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market8 Mar 2027

Ararat-Armenia promote Hovhannes Spertsyan from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Hovhannes Spertsyan has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

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