Yeghishe Melikyan has announced the list of foreign-based players called up to the Armenia national team

Yeghishe Melikyan has announced the list of foreign-based players invited to the Armenia national team.

For the first time, Sunderland U21 forward Finn Geragusyan has received a call-up to the national team. Rubin midfielder Ugochukwu Iwu will miss the camp due to injury.

The full list is below.

Defenders

Georgi Harutyunyan – Puskás Akadémia (Hungary)
Stepan Mkrtchyan – Nürnberg (Germany)
Nair Tiknizyan – Crvena Zvezda (Serbia)
Artyom Bandikyan – CSKA Moscow (Russia)

Midfielders

Eduard Spertsyan – Krasnodar (Russia)

Forwards

Vahan Bichakhchyan – Legia (Poland)
Grant-Leon Ranos – Eintracht Braunschweig (Germany)
Artur Miranyan – Bnei Sakhnin (Israel)
Narek Grigoryan – Farul (Romania)
Finn Geragusyan – Sunderland U21 (England)

It should be noted that the Armenia national team will play a friendly match away against the United Arab Emirates on March 26. Three days later, Yeghishe Melikyan’s team will face Belarus in Yerevan.