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Antranig Dereyan
Born and raised in New Jersey, Antranig Dereyan graduated from Rowan University with a bachelor’s in journalism. He contributes frequently to the Armenian Weekly with sports pieces. He also freelances for other online sites and newspapers.
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Very nice article Anto jan , but you forgot about the maestro Henrich Mkhitaryan and the wonderkid Hrach Yakan ! It would be a dream come true if Armenia qualifies for the world cup .
Trek hayer trek tebi Hayasdan !!!
Manucharyan plays wing not center. Also there is the Turkish born Aras Ozbiliz who has expressed desire to play for Armenia. He is one of the best young talents of Ajax, and will add more value to our attack than Boghossian. Boghossian will surely add another dimension to our front line, but we can qualify for Europe without him.
Good read! I remember you wrote a similar piece in the fall. So what has changed now, if anything, are there talks to get Boghossian to play for Armenia? I hope it isn’t the FFA that is not taking the chance on getting Boghossian.
Agree with Hayk. Beside that Brazilian Marcos is not yet a leader of our national squad midfielders, he scored his first goal to Andorra- only during the last game in 2010 qualifiers.
Sure, Boghossian can be a good surplus to Armenian national team, but he is still undecided as whom to choose-Uruguay or Armenia? Though its pretty obvious, that he hasn`t any chance to be intvited to his native country`s squad, and not only because of the strong competition in Uruguay national team offence line, but mainly because of his own very poor performance in Europe(Austrian Red Bulls) past year. Armenian FF had contacted Boghossian several times, but this guy is still thinking. Armenian fans from all over the world had even made a very nice video clip, calling on Boghossian to join Armenia, but Khoakin only said that he was very touched and very much pleased with that clip…There is still no any answer from him. In one of his latest interviews he again mentioned that opportunity: if not Uruguay, then Armenia. In the very rare times in the past season, when he appared on the pitch for Red Bulls, the Zalzburg fans whistled at him. What is he or his agent are waiting for??
good effort reserching for this article.
Correction: Yura never played for any kind of US national team.
The FFA should try to get both players to play for their Homeland. Boghossian doesn’t have a great shot at playing for Uruguay, and the same goes for Aras, who wouldn’t be likely to get called up by either turkey or the Netherlands. If they were to play for Armenia they would actually start or at the least get some playing time.
2 AR: not it’s not FIFA this time. I guess the guy wants to make sure that he lost his options to play for Uruguay. I don’t blame him for this even though would rather see him in Armenian team. He would definitely add a supper power to our front line. Besides, the more players from outside of Armenia come to play for our National team, the more spirit and energy they bring to the rest of the team and fans. I hope that he makes the right decision- the one that suits him for the rest of his life. Good luck to the boy regardless of his decision!!!
To AR. Aras has much better chance to play for Holland, than Joaquin Boghossian for Uruguay. Aras is only 20 and he already plays for Ajax, whereas Boghossian is playing basically on the substitutes` bench, and even not always is on the list of Red Bulls. But the good news are, that Aras Ozbilis has already agreed to play for Armenia. It is said that his Armenian passport is ready and hopefully he will appear for our team against Georgia in the friendly match on Feb. 9 in Cyprus!
Bad news are that Boghossian is stil considering all the options and most probably will return to Argentine, where some teams want him. It will be much more difficult for him to come to Armenia from Latin America than from Europe. Besides, our Armenian Football Federation can`t wait for his final decision forever and most probably is not going to invite him any more…I quess, that now is Boghossian`s turn to ask for joining our National squad! I will be only happy, if we have a 197cm striker in the Armenian front line!
AR are you Armenian?
Razmig: I probably would not be on this site if I were not :)
Hey guys
Just wanted to say, thanks for following my writings. I just wanted to write and confirm that Aras Ozbilis has agreed to play for Armenia. Almost all of the international football(soccer) sites list his national team as Armenia.
Also, I know that it is a long shot for Boghossian to play for Armenia, it is the main reason why I wrote this: to explain why he should play for Armenia and not wait for an opening on The Uruguayan National Team.
More stories to come shortly, working on a few profiles on other Armenian footballers, including Henrich Mkhitaryan, a story on an Armenian-American surfer and still researching what happened to Armenia’s ice hockey team being suspended by the International Hockey Federation.
Thanks again guys and keep your eyes open to armenianweekly.com for more of my articles.
One more thing about The National Football Team:
They are now ranked 59th in the world by FIFA, which is a jump of about 40 places from their previous ranking.
Thank’s a lot, Antranig! It is not very often I read sports articles in Armenian Weekly, so it is a very happy news for me. Also, would like to say, that my son, born in US, almost nine years old now, wants to play for Armenian National Team… Well, we have a long way to go on that one, but … who knows, maybe he will. At least, I will take him in a few years for tryouts to Yerevan.
In every sport we have to help Armenia to show it’s strength – which is actually all of Armenias children all around the World.
Thank’s again!
Antonio is 6’5″ is tall to play soccer, maybe he should play basketball.
The Armenian Soccer team played in Fresno and are fantastic for the size of population that Armenia can pool form.
Good luck to Antonio wherever he decides to play.
Good article, but you forgot about leader of Armenian National Team Henrikh Mkhitaryan, and about best armenian player 2010 Karlen Mkrtchyan, who is central rock of our NT
‘As a striker, he has very stiff competition to crack the first team squad. 2010 World Cup strikers Diego Forlan and Luis Suarez are young and don’t seem to be slowing down anytime soon.”
End of story.
Why Boghossian should play in Armenia? Armenia is a team without history or present and full of mercenaries. He should for Uruguay, because hes uruguayan and uruguay is one of the best football teams in the world currently.
Roberto, you’re asking why Boghossian should play in Armenia? I’ll answer you that for the exact same reason for which Jaari Litmanen played for Finland, Eidur Gudjonsen played for Iceland, Ryan Giggs played for Wales and Kevin-Prince Boateng recently chose Ghana over Germany…
I’m sure you have forgotten, but beside all that you’ve mentioned there things in the world (they still are) called “homeland” and “patriotism”.
There are very good national teams around that can barely afford one team packed with high-class players. A moment comes in the history, when all the representatives of the nation get together forming great teams. Remember Bulgaria of 1994… that would not be one of the best football teams in the world at their time, if Stoitchkov, Lechkov, Balakov and Kostadinov chose to play for other national teams – which was much easier then, than it is now.
Diego Forlán is young???
He is 36 years old !!!