Our National Team's Level Is +/- This: Sports Commentator on Armenia-Portugal Match

For 10 minutes, I’ve been writing and deleting.... I don’t know what emotions I’m going through right now.

Sports commentator Robert Gasparyan wrote this on his Facebook page: “But now we must accept that our national team’s level is +/- this. We can only hold our ground with the really strong teams for a few minutes. I’ve written it before and I’ll write it again: we play as much as our opponent allows us. This isn’t even a second-tier game; in a second-tier game, at least they would counterattack.

What do you expect from those boys? They contributed as much as they could at their level. Agasaryan, Piloyan, Henrikh – whatever they had, they gave it all. Poor Arthur Serobyan will soon be targeted with comments like ‘if he hadn’t made that pass, we would have played for a draw’ (from the creators of ‘if Barseghyan hadn’t gotten a red card, we would have won’).

Now let’s see what our illustrious football federation will say about this defeat. Remember what Armen 1 promised after the loss to Sakartvelo, and how our senior members and the gathered journalists nodded along. Well, let’s see you, friends. If you have even a gram of memory, if your goal is the development of Armenian football, hold Armen 1 and Armen 2 accountable and demand their resignation,” wrote Robert Gasparyan.

Recall that the Armenia-Portugal match ended in favor of Portugal with a score of 9-1.