Andranik Teymourian moves to Bolton Wanderers!

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Andranik Teymourian is gonna be moving to Bolton Wanderers for this coming season! In case you don't know, Bolton Wanderers is a decent team who plays in the premier league in England alongside Arsenal, Liverpool, Man Utd etc...

[TigranJamharian]

i dont give 2 $hits about some unpatriotic punk who would rather represent Iran than his true heritage. this would be some very encouraging news if he was on the Armenian NT but as it stands this doesnt do us much good. good for him...

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ye i know what you mean, i feel the same way, but its still worth a mention as at least he does say is Armenian. There's a lot of players out there who play for other countries instead of Armenia. Perhaps you need to have an Armenian passport to play for the national team? I don't know.

Manucharyan is still the best Armenian player around and he plays for Armenia so that's good. Even though he has hardly played for me to judge him because of his injuries, going from Pyunik to Ajax means that the guy must have something special.

[TigranJamharian]

Originally Posted by ]{eVoR]{

ye i know what you mean, i feel the same way, but its still worth a mention as at least he does say is Armenian. There's a lot of players out there who play for other countries instead of Armenia. Perhaps you need to have an Armenian passport to play for the national team? I don't know.

Manucharyan is still the best Armenian player around and he plays for Armenia so that's good. Even though he has hardly played for me to judge him because of his injuries, going from Pyunik to Ajax means that the guy must have something special.

well im sure if he had expressed any desire the Armenian football federation would have gotten him a passport and made him a citizen very quickly as i think he is a good enough player to play on our NT, and its not as if Iran's team is at an incredibly high level that he went there to get better experience or exposure or whatnot.

as for Manucharyan, im very happy about him, but we need more players going into big clubs like Ajax. recently it has been getting a bit better with more exposure for young Armenian players but i still dont see much hope for our NT in the near future.

[D3ADSY]

Oh isn't he just utterly crazy, representing the country he was born and grew up in instead of the one his parents may not have even been born in.
Good on him. I hope bigger things await him in his footballing career.

[Ari]

thats awsome news

the premier league is great well done to andranik

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i read somewhere else that he's actually on trial first before signing him permanently, so hopefully everything goes well.

[D3ADSY]

Yes, he is on trial.

[TigranJamharian]

Originally Posted by D3ADSY

Oh isn't he just utterly crazy, representing the country he was born and grew up in instead of the one his parents may not have even been born in.
Good on him. I hope bigger things await him in his footballing career.

hmm, i think i sense sarcasm.

what the hell does the country you are born in have to do with?
we as a nation of diasporans would truly be f'ed up the a$$ if everyone thought like you did. yeah screw Armenia right? plenty of Armenians like that in Australia i see.

[simonig]

Teymourian played for Ararat in Iran. He is just as Armenian as anyone else on the Armenian National Team. Irans NT was ranked 20th in the world while Armenia was ranked 109.

By Teymourian moving over to England, it may give him the opportunity to cut his ties with Iran. Armenia has a lot of good young players around the world. We may be able to make a push in 2010.

[Crissy]

Originally Posted by TigranJamharian

hmm, i think i sense sarcasm.

what the hell does the country you are born in have to do with?
we as a nation of diasporans would truly be f'ed up the a$$ if everyone thought like you did. yeah screw Armenia right? plenty of Armenians like that in Australia i see.

Tigran jan? I resent your last statement. Perhaps you could rephrase? not everyone is the same you know

[D3ADSY]

Originally Posted by TigranJamharian

hmm, i think i sense sarcasm.

what the hell does the country you are born in have to do with?
we as a nation of diasporans would truly be f'ed up the a$$ if everyone thought like you did. yeah screw Armenia right? plenty of Armenians like that in Australia i see.

What I don't understand is why the most patriotic Armenians never seem to actually be living in Armenia. There is nothing at all holding such people back from relocating yet they always seem to have an excuse as to why they cannot, whilst in the mean time passing judgement on others who have made their choices in life.
I wonder if a resident of Yerevan would call him an "unpatriotic punk".

[Ari]

no comment :P trying to bite my tongue here

[D3ADSY]

You can proceed to cut it out for all I care.

[Ari]

dont worry i agree with you