Armenian Football Federation President, National Security Service head Artur Vanetsyan was present at the practice before the match at the “Republic” stadium named after Vazgen Sargsyan.
Reporters were obviously interested in what the FFA President had to say to the footballers. “Overall, we discussed our future places and future matches. I told them to have a good match, to have a positive attitude, and to play well. We saw the results of the match against Gibraltar, however. We lost, but if we look at this from a professional perspective, if we look at the situation, it was actually one of the best games we had recently. I tried to encourage the coach not to get depressed and to place all his energy on the upcoming game. I hope that we will have positive results during the match against Macedonia. We discussed the reasons for the loss and got a professional perspective. Just as I said on the day that I was elected FFA President, we are getting ready to present a plan to advance football in Armenia. We will be advancing youth football so that we can have a lot of young footballers. We will see the results of the plan in 4-5 years,” Artur Vanetsyan said.
