YEREVAN, AUGUST 14, ARMENPRESS. “Volga” club and the Armenian national team footballer Artur Sarkisov will miss two months of football. Armenpress informs the abovesaid, citing webpage Sovsport.

Sarkisov hurt his hand in the match against FC “Torpedo” Armavir after which he continued playing. After medical inspection it turned out that the footballer had a fracture and had to be operated.

The Armenian national team will have a match against Denmark in September.

Sarkisov started playing aged 12 in FC Strogino football school. In one of the friendly matches with FC Reutov, Arthur scored a hat-trick, and then the board of the Moscow Region club offered him a contract. In his first season at the professional level, Arthur scored 3 goals in 29 matches.

In 2008, because of financial problems, Reutov was disbanded and Sarkisov moved to Lokomotiv-2 Moscow. For two seasons, he became the best scorer of the team, and for the 2010 Russian Second Division season, Sarkisov was named the best forward of the West zone and became the division leading scorer, scoring 21 goals. In February 2014, Ural announced Sarkisov's transfer to RFPL rivals Volga Nizhny Novgorod, where he played in previous season. Artur's family name Sarkisov is the modified version of the Armenian surname Sargsyan.