Eduard Spertsyan Named New Captain of Armenian National Team

The new captain of the Armenian national football team will be Eduard Spertsyan, the midfielder for the Russian champion "Krasnodar." The national team's head coach, Yegishe Melikyan, informed NEWS.am Sport that Spertsyan will be the captain from now on. Not just for the upcoming games, but in general.

As a reminder, in the previous matches of the current World Cup qualifying stage, the team captain was Tigran Barseghyan, a forward for "Slovan" Bratislava, who is suspended for three matches with the national team.