Garik Vardanyan, 13, plays professional football since the age of five. 

The first to notice Gro’s—as Garik’s friends call him—football talent was legendary Armenian player Khoren Hovhannisyan, who at the time was director at capital city Yerevan’s FC Pyunik School of Sports.

Even though Gro was only four years old at the time, Hovhannisyan did not want to lose this promising football player, and one year later he enrolled Gro in the aforesaid school.   

Now, Pyunik-2-2000 midfielder Garik Vardanyan is considered one of the club’s best players.

And it is no coincidence that the coaches selected his demonstration performance to show the visiting Belgian specialists the technical abilities of their players.

Although Gro trains an average of six hours a day, this does not obstruct him from achieving excellent results at school.  

“Most of all I love geometry, since it enables to think logically,” Garik said.

But Gro does not rely solely on his football talent for his future success, and he trains with an enviable diligence.