Subject: »[NT]Ազգային հավաքական/National Team

thank you both of you, but i still believe we could have scored more goals.:)

We have now a new member of our national team. Let's welcome Samvel Khacherian.With some technique training, he'll become a very good winger for our team. Playing for the national team, he'll get extra-training, and i hope he'll grow faster that way.:)
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yeaah THX coach rafa.. ;)
Samvel Kacherian it had very long wait until the national team. and now is his time came..

please, don't forget about his technique training.:)
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10 minutes before the game starts. It will be a very difficult match today, against a tough team, with a very good manager. We'll try to win this game, but like I said, it will be damn hard to get achieve the victory.Let's hope our boys will do a very good match today.
Go, Armenia, go!!!

Like I said before, it was a hard game for us.Unfortunately, we didn't win, but we could easily lose this match. I watched some of our opponents prevoius matches, and I was really affraid of their strikers' pace and technique....I think I had good reasons to be affraid, because we all noticed what good strikers they have. I was also affraid of their wingers, and I tried to stop them as good as I could, but unfortunatley Avetissian got slightly injured, and we couldn't do any more damages on their right side.Anyway, in my opinion, it wasn't such a bad game, especially that I was expecting on a tough resistance from our opponents, and I knew it won't be easy for us.

I'm very concerned about Panoyan...Since 12 January 2008, he only played 2 matches for his club.That doesn't help him at all...Thatt's why his form level went down very fast.I'll try to convince his manager to sell him, in order to be played more often.:(

did they play with their first squad???

This is what Maqoma said on their forum after the game finished:

Maqoma to Maqoma 2008-05-03 09:43:05

2-2 draw. A match with 2 faces

1) If you watch the statistics, then the result is good. There strikers are mutch better then our defenders. Our defenders had alot of problem with their speed + we played with 5 U21 players. Not because I wanted too play with them, but because they where the best choices.. :)

- Average raiting of Hayastan: 51.33
- Average raiting of Malta: 48.93

2) How is it possible that we draw? It's really annoying to see how close we where... with some more luck, we could score 5-6 goals and we would easy won this match. Bad luck in the 84e minut that Cini didn't passed the ball away..

There where also some positive things ;) 70e minute was funny :) I changed, with a conditional order, Pool and Blake from place. Blake took place at the wing, and Pool as a offensive playmaker. After this change we scored the 1-2 :)

This week the A squad players/managers will get some personal messages. I Will talk about the training plans of there player(s). It's important that they train the right skills for the world cup.

greetz,
Maqoma

I see you are disappointed about the result.So do I...We could've won, but we could have easily lost this game.:(
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A nice game today against Costa Rica, but I may say I'm disappointed again about how easily we miss clear chances of scoring. I used a 4-3-3 tactic because I was sure we're going to win this game, and I wanted to do it with a bigger difference, but our strikers looked like they were in some kind of a holiday. I also set up few changes at the break in case we would have had at least 2 goals leading, but we only had 1 goal.I wanted to try Khacherian instead of Avestissian, but it didn't happened because we only scored once.:( I only changed Garabedian , and I think it was a nice change. I was also affraid of a second Kolangian yellow card, but we were lucky.
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congratulations!

I hope this was their first squad :)

Yes , it was their A team. They really wanted to win this.:D Just like we did.:)
Their manager's post shows they played with the first squad:

camus to all 2008-05-04 19:10:18
Juego importante, ya que los armenios estan arribita del ranking a comparacion de nosotros, jugaremos con el equipo titular para tratar de subir lo mas que se pueda en el ranking y tener un grupo eliminatorio mundialista aunque sea un poco mas facil
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well done nice job ;)

we could have easyle scored 6-7 goals today :s

Thank you.:)

I know. That's why I'm a bit upset.We miss clear chances.:((
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So, if we manage to end this season in a better position, we have the chance to enter an easier group the next qualifications, right?