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Yura Movsisyan signs `huge contract' with top Russian club
by Emil Sanamyan
http://www.reporter.am/go/article/2012-12-09-yura-movsisyan-signs--huge-contract--with-top-russian-club
Published: Sunday December 09, 2012
Movsisyan with Spartak's director and acting coach Valery Karpin. Via Facebook
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WASHINGTON - Armenia international Yura Movsisyan has signed on with
the most popular Russian football club Spartak Moscow, the athlete and
his new and former clubs confirmed on December 8.
Owner of FC Krasnodar Sergey Galitsky said in his Twitter that "we let
Yura go since he was offered a huge contract. He did a lot for us. We
thank him for everything... and he knows that he can always come
here." In 2011 and 2012, Movsisyan scored 23 goals in 50 matches for
FC Krasnodar.
Media reports suggest that Spartak gave the 25-year-old Movsisyan a
five-year contract and a salary valued at between 1.5 and possibly
over 2 million Euros. The transfer was estimated at 8 million Euros,
and if this is correct it is the highest amount ever paid for an
Armenian national team player.
The previous record was set by Ukraine champions Shakhtar Donetsk who
acquired Henrik Mkhitaryan for about 6 million Euros in 2010. This
season, Mkhitaryan has emerged as the top goal scorer in the Ukrainian
championship with 18 goals in 17 matches, his transfer value has risen
to over 17 million Euros.
Movsisyan also had a bumper season playing for mid-ranked FC
Krasnodar, scoring 9 goals in 13 matches. At Spartak he will first
need to win a spot on the main squad, with the Moscow team currently
retaining five other forwards. The team is currently languishing in
the 9th place, just a spot ahead of FC Krasnodar. But unlike
Movsisyan's former team, FC Spartak is in a perennial hunt for top
prizes.
Movsisyan can be inspired by the fact that his compatriot Nikita
Simonyan remains Spartak's top goal scorer in history, knocking in 133
goals in 233 matches between 1949 and 1959. Simonyan subsequently
coached FC Ararat Yerevan in its glory days in the early 1970s.
Having joined the Armenian national team in recent years, players like
Mkhitaryan, Movsisyan and Aras Ozbiliz - with 7 goals in 15 matches
for Russia's FC Kuban this season - make Armenia a team to be reckoned
with today and in years to come.
From: Baghdasarian
by Emil Sanamyan
http://www.reporter.am/go/article/2012-12-09-yura-movsisyan-signs--huge-contract--with-top-russian-club
Published: Sunday December 09, 2012
Movsisyan with Spartak's director and acting coach Valery Karpin. Via Facebook
Related Articles
Yura Movsisyan: to be the best you must expect the best
PM: Diaspora drives Armenia's economy
WASHINGTON - Armenia international Yura Movsisyan has signed on with
the most popular Russian football club Spartak Moscow, the athlete and
his new and former clubs confirmed on December 8.
Owner of FC Krasnodar Sergey Galitsky said in his Twitter that "we let
Yura go since he was offered a huge contract. He did a lot for us. We
thank him for everything... and he knows that he can always come
here." In 2011 and 2012, Movsisyan scored 23 goals in 50 matches for
FC Krasnodar.
Media reports suggest that Spartak gave the 25-year-old Movsisyan a
five-year contract and a salary valued at between 1.5 and possibly
over 2 million Euros. The transfer was estimated at 8 million Euros,
and if this is correct it is the highest amount ever paid for an
Armenian national team player.
The previous record was set by Ukraine champions Shakhtar Donetsk who
acquired Henrik Mkhitaryan for about 6 million Euros in 2010. This
season, Mkhitaryan has emerged as the top goal scorer in the Ukrainian
championship with 18 goals in 17 matches, his transfer value has risen
to over 17 million Euros.
Movsisyan also had a bumper season playing for mid-ranked FC
Krasnodar, scoring 9 goals in 13 matches. At Spartak he will first
need to win a spot on the main squad, with the Moscow team currently
retaining five other forwards. The team is currently languishing in
the 9th place, just a spot ahead of FC Krasnodar. But unlike
Movsisyan's former team, FC Spartak is in a perennial hunt for top
prizes.
Movsisyan can be inspired by the fact that his compatriot Nikita
Simonyan remains Spartak's top goal scorer in history, knocking in 133
goals in 233 matches between 1949 and 1959. Simonyan subsequently
coached FC Ararat Yerevan in its glory days in the early 1970s.
Having joined the Armenian national team in recent years, players like
Mkhitaryan, Movsisyan and Aras Ozbiliz - with 7 goals in 15 matches
for Russia's FC Kuban this season - make Armenia a team to be reckoned
with today and in years to come.
From: Baghdasarian