The Shirak Sentinel
Squad6 Mar 2028
Joacim Holtan breaks a bone — 79 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 79 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match4 Mar 2028
7 matches without a win for Shirak
The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Shirak are no longer polite ones.
Squad6 Mar 2028
Aleksa Vidić signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Aleksa Vidić commits to Shirak for another 2 years.
Squad6 Mar 2028
Tempers go at Shirak
Joacim Holtan 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.
Boardroom6 Mar 2028
6 academy players handed senior numbers at Shirak
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Squad6 Mar 2028
Nermin Zolotić 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.
Match4 Mar 2028
Shirak come up short against Ararat-Armenia
Ararat-Armenia left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Player ratings6 Mar 2028
Nobody could get near Donald Kodia
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market6 Mar 2028
Artur Haroyan steps up from the Shirak academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Artur Haroyan 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.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Sargis Spertsyan joins the Shirak first team
- Market Tigran Sarkisov steps up from the Shirak academy
- Market Mkhitar Bayramyan steps up from the Shirak academy