Armenian National team will start the preparation ahead of UEFA Nations League C league group 2 matches against North Macedonia and Estonia.

 

As the Football Federation reports, in the frames of the preparations, our team will have a training camp from August 31 to September 3 in FFA technical center/football academy. The head coach Joaquin Caparros has called up 23 players. The leading player of the national team, ROMA A.S, midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan is not included in the list.
 

Commenting on Mkhitaryan's absence, Caparros noted that he had held phone call with Mkhitaryan. "He spoke to me on the phone and told me that he could not join the national team at the moment. Last time he played was against Sevilla on August 6, he is on vacation nor, hasn't trained and is not fit. Henrikh added, that he could not fully show his abilities and promised to join national team in October and make a full contribution to the team," said the head coach.

 

As to the absence of forwards Gevorg Ghazaryan and Sargis Adamyan, Caparros said the player is is injured, while Sargis is on his way to recover. We don't want to risk and decided not to call them this time.