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YEREVAN, JANUARY 13, ARMENPRESS. The Forward of the Armenian National Football Team Artur Sarkisov is not intended to move to Kazakhstan’s Aktobe.
As reports “Armenpress” citing Sports.kz, the Armenian footballer’s agent Tigran Mkrtchyan assured that Artur Sarkisov does not want to continue his career in Aktobe.
Artur Sarkisov is an Armenian football player who currently plays attacking center forward for the Armenian national team and for Russian Premier League club Ural Sverdlovsk Oblast.
Football started to deal with in 12 years in the football school FC Strogino. In one of the friendly matches with FC Reutov, Arthur scored a hat-trick, and then the guide of the Moscow Region club offered him to sign a contract with them. In his first season at the professional level, Arthur held 29 meetings and scored 3 goals. In 2008, because of financial problems, Reutov was disbanded and Sarkisov moved toLokomotiv-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 west zone and became the division leading scorer, scoring 21 goals. His vivid game in Lokomotiv-2 has not gone unnoticed by the heads of the first team, and on December 9, 2010, Artur signed a contract with parent club Lokomotiv Moscow for six years. Sarkisov's dream of playing for the Russian Premier League had come true. Under the guidance of new head coach of Lokomotiv Yuri Krasnozhan, he spent only one camp in preparation of the 2011 season. In March, his contract was extended to three years and he was loaned for the 2011-12 season to Shinnik. The first match of Sarkisov for Shinnik was played on April 4 against FC Khimki. Sarkisov was coming in on 64 minutes, replacing Eldar Nizamutdinov. On April 25, he opened bombarding the score with Alania at the 48th minute of play with one ball of his team. As a result, the meeting ended in a draw 2-2. At the end of the season, Sarkisov was the second top scorer of Shinnik.
On July 23, 2012, Sarkisov was transferred on loan to the Volga Nizhny Novgorod and will play under the number 14. Sarkisov scored his first two goals for the club in his tenth game for Volga on 15 March 2013. The final score was 2-1, thus Volga won because of Sarkisov's two goals.
Sarkisov had wanted very much to play for the Armenia national football team. When he was invited, he agreed without thinking for a minute. He joined the national team on July 27, 2011 and made his debut in a friendly match against Lithuania on August 10, 2011, coming on the field and in the starting lineup in the 58th minute and substituting Yura Movsisyan. His first goal for the national team had already in his third game with Slovakia on September 6, which Armenia won away with a crushing 4-0 victory. On September 7, 2012, Sarkisov scored a goal for the national team in an away match against Malta.
Artur's family name Sarkisov is the modified version of the Armenian surname Sargsyan. His ancestors had become Sarkisov many years ago and he didn’t wish to restore the Sargsyan surname out of respect for them.
He lived with his family for the first three years of his life in Grozny. The family then moved to the city Sosensky, Kozelsky District. Artur and his brother engaged in athletics in Moscow when Artur was in the sixth grade. They specialized in the 60 meters sprint. Artur became more immersed in football. He later stated football taught him to live. His brother is the 60-meter sprint champion of Russia. Artur always celebrates New Year at home with his family. Sarkisov has recently started learning how to speakArmenian.
Artur and his wife Olga studied at the same school. He was 16 when they met. They got married on April 15, 2011. The couple has a son named Artyom.
Artur has the same birthday as fellow Armenian national member Edgar Manucharyan.