IT’S GOING TO BE TENSE

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[12:52 pm] 04 September, 2008

Armenian national football team is going on to get ready for the
World Cup Qualifying match with Turkey due to September 6. Chief
Coach Yan Poulsen invited 25 candidates last week for the gathering,
but just now only 22 footballers are involved in the team, and 18 of
them will be engaged in the match-list and meet Turkish players.

"Turkish tournament has just started, whereas Armenian Championship
is in its decisive stage," said the assistant of the Chief Coach
of Armenian team Vardan Minasian, "Our players playing abroad for
different clubs have underwent numerous matches and haven’t got any
problems with practice. All this makes us conclude that we have a
privilege in terms of footballers’ sport state at this instance. But
we shouldn’t forget that the opponent is Bronze-medalist of Europe
Championship".

In Mr. Minasian’s view the upcoming match promises a breathtaking
football. "It’ll be tense and beautiful and winning the match or
even drawing it can be a good result for us, a good start in the
qualifying stage."

Vardan Miansyan also pointed out that compared to "Euro-2008" there
had been big changes in the national team of Turkey. "We were expecting
Turks to arrive in Yerevan with completely another staff. It was what
really happened and now we can evidence several new names among the
members of the published list. We are informed that Nihat Kahveci and
Hamid Altintop have injuries and 2 more players have also joined them
lately. Some young footballers have been invited. Anyway, Turkish
team is a better experienced team than Armenian one".