The Shirak Sentinel
Match4 Mar 2028
9 matches without a win for Shirak
The run now stands at 9, and the questions being asked around Shirak are no longer polite ones.
Player ratings6 Mar 2028
Nobody could get near Donald Kodia
Successful dribbles: 31. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout6 Mar 2028
Martin Grigoryan: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Shirak have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad6 Mar 2028
Hayk Tatosyan in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Shirak this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom6 Mar 2028
5 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
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.
Market6 Mar 2028
Shirak promote Hakob Bayramyan from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Hakob Bayramyan 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.
Market6 Mar 2028
Shirak promote Gevorg Movsisyan from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Gevorg Movsisyan 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.
Market6 Mar 2028
One of our own: Petros Spertsyan joins the Shirak first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Petros Spertsyan is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market Shirak promote Ararat Simonyan from within
- Squad A row about effort at Shirak
- Boardroom Shirak board go back on their word