YEREVAN. – Chief Coach of the Armenian national football team Vardan Minasyan visited training camp of FC Kuban in Spain, aiming to follow the play of Armenian forward Marcos Pizzelli, who joined the Russian club.

“I believe his participation in the Russian Champion League will be useful both for the club and the Armenian team,” he said.

In response to the question how often he made such tours, Minasyan said that before he had no time, as he was the chief coach of both the Armenian FC Pyunik and the national team. Currently he has time as he heads only the national football team.

As for how he managed to score such successive results in the UEFA Champions League, he said that Armenian team being young and ambitious one hindered the players to score success. However, they have always had the reputation of individual players, while common and stable play is the soul of the team, and guarantee of the maximum result. This taken into account the team became more experienced.

Regarding Pizzelli’s characteristics as a human and a player, as Armenian fans are not so well aware of him, the chief coach said that he is a quick, technical player, owning dribbling. He is a professional and a very responsible man.