Сборная Армении

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Федерация футбола Армении отказалась от голландского наставника сборной страны

Главный тренер сборной Армении голландец Хенк Висман сегодня был отправлен в отставку. Федерация футбола Армении (ФФА) отказалась продлевать контракт с Висманом. Голландский специалист возглавил сборную Армении в середине отборочной кампании ЧМ-2006. Наряду со сборной Армении, он тренировал бессменного чемпиона Армении последних лет - "Пюник" (Ереван). Под руководством 49-летнего Висмана сборная Армении показывала неутешительные результаты и удручающую игру. Отметим, что в послужном списке уже бывшего наставника армянской дружины значится тренерская деятельность в таких голландских командах как "Волендам" и "Де Бош".

Интересно, когда прекратится эта чехарда?

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А вот интересная статья на эту тему.

ArmeniaNow Exclusive: Former coach Henk Wisman talks about disputed contracts, unfit players and the sorry state of Armenian football

By Suren Musayelyan

ArmeniaNow reporter

Editor’s Note: In the past four seasons, the Armenian National football team has had four different head coaches. It has had as many coaches as victories in that period. Henk Wisman, the latest to get the axe from the Armenian Football Federation says officials are unrealistic in their approach to the sport.

Wisman spoke exclusively with ArmeniaNow to give his assessment of the soccer state of affairs.

Fired national football team coach Henk Wisman wants his contract with the Armenian Football Federation respected and intends to stay in Armenia until his deal expires or until his claims are satisfied.

The coach takes a hard look at Armenia’s football ability

The Dutchman was hired to coach Armenia’s national football team and football club Pyunik last May, but was sacked last week. He claims he has three months left on his contract. The Football Federation says it fired Wisman because of his record of one win, one draw and six defeats over nearly a year. Meanwhile, the 48-year-old Dutchman argues that he has been fired for his “realistic approach to Armenian football.”

Originally Wisman had a 7-month plus 2 years contract with the Federation, meaning that after seven months if both sides agreed he would sign a contract to coach Armenia for two years. He says in late December, the Armenian Federation proposed a two-year contract to him. But, according to him, he asked for an intermediate contract until July 1, after which he would decide on further extending his contracts.

“I said I needed half a year to make an evaluation, because I wanted a lot of things in Armenian football professionalized, like players, accommodation, medical equipment and facilities, clothes,” Wisman said in an exclusive interview with ArmeniaNow. “If no progress was made, I would then stop the contract. And likewise the Federation could refuse to extend a contract with me if they were unsatisfied with my work.”

Wisman says he has been paid for the first three month of the year and now, after being sacked, he wants his salary for the remaining three months paid as well. (Neither Wisman nor the federation would say how much the coach was being paid. Football journalists speculate that the position pays anywhere from $60,000-200,000.)

“It is normal that when a club or federation fires you they pay you till the end of your contract. It is so in Holland,” he says, adding that the Federation broke the contract unilaterally. Meanwhile, the Federation says that they have not received any claim either from Wisman or from the Dutch Football Federation regarding the payment of the salary.

Federation spokesman Arayik Manukyan told ArmeniaNow that they had an agreement after the seven months of Wisman’s contract expired that they would make the decision about further extending it after the draw for Euro-2008, which took place in January.

“As it was officially stated by the Federation, the contract with Henk Wisman was not extended by the Federation president after they failed to come to agreement during the negotiations,” Manukyan said, without elaborating. He said the Federation did not have any information regarding Wisman’s claims.

But now Wisman says it is a legal matter between the Armenian and Dutch football associations.

Wisman, who played for Ajax for eight years and was involved in the Dutch U-18 and U-21 national teams, stopped playing football young to take up a coaching career. He was hired by the Armenian Federation following the transfer of Armenia’s young talented striker Edgar Manucharyan to FC Ajax (Amsterdam) as the Armenian Federation then expressed a desire to hire a coach with Ajax background.

Now he continues to attend football matches in Armenia, as a spectator, pending a solution to his dispute with the Federation.

Meanwhile, the Federation is reportedly looking for another foreign coach to succeed Wisman.

Football: Fired coach Henk Wisman points out weaknesses in Armenia’s football system. Insight or sour grapes? Share your thoughts in ArmeniaNow’s forums.

Wisman, who sounded optimistic about his future weeks ago in an interview with www.uefa.com, says the decision of the Football Federation was a surprise to him.

“The only explanation that I heard was that players were not in physically good shape. We became champions with Pyunik, we won the Super Cup, we qualified for the semifinal in the CIS Cup in Moscow for the first time, while opting out of the match with Azerbaijan’s champion Neftchi was not my decision. It cannot be a reason to fire me.”

Regarding the national team, Wisman says that he has played the best possible football with the set of players he had.

“Armenia does not have a strong national championship, there is no strong competition in the country and most of the few players who play abroad are not involved in strong leagues,” Wisman says. “One should understand that not much can be expected from a team that plays against competitors of a much higher level and quality.”

Wisman says he wants Armenia to play the Dutch way, but as he says with the given team he could not play offensive football against the strong national teams like Holland, the Czech Republic, Romania in the latest WC-2006 qualifying round.

“But when I saw an opportunity for that, I played the team the Dutch way, such as in the match against Andorra when we dominated the field and played very attractive and spectacular football,” he says. (Armenia beat Andorra away – 3-0).

Wisman says the team accepted his tactics and he was satisfied with how the players realized his designs on the pitch.

Armenia and Pyunik veteran defender and captain Sargis Hovsepyan, 33, describes Wisman as a good specialist. “I am satisfied with the work with Henk Wisman, with the trainings that he had with us, with the exercises and tactical schemes he proposed. He tried to train us to play Dutch football, not only running about the field with the ball, but also thinking. He had normal relations with all players,” he told ArmeniaNow.

Hovsepyan says Wisman was also satisfied with the way the team realized his tactics on the pitch. “I agree that Armenia should play realistic football now. You can’t play offensive football against Holland or other leading teams if you don’t have a sufficient level,” the veteran defender said.

“If the coach cannot achieve a result with lots of high-level footballers playing in strong leagues, then he is to blame for the failure, but in my case I didn’t have the required level of players to oppose strong European sides,” Wisman explains.

“Edgar Manucharyan, who is now in Ajax, is a very talented player, but he has been injured most of the time. Why? Because the Ajax level is too high for him. The intensity and frequency of the trainings are high for him. His physical fitness is not good enough for them at this moment. Maybe he will be good enough for them in a year or two. I am sorry, but that’s the deference between Holland and Armenia. It is a reality.”

Unlike his predecessor, French coach Bernard Casoni, who was fired for not being “in touch” with Armenian football, Wisman has stayed in Armenia on a permanent basis. He says he knows all players in Armenia and outside and knows their strong and weak sides well enough.

Wisman says that there are a lot of conditions needed for Armenia to become a strong football nation, like an improved economic situation, more investments into football on all levels, a good level of the national championship and players playing in strong foreign sides. Acknowledging Football Federation President Ruben Hayrapetyan as a man who takes care of Armenian football matters and tries to promote investments in this sport, Wisman says that above all he wanted from him more time.

“The Federation president is doing a very good job for Armenia. But he must be realistic and give more time and responsibility to the coach to work on it. He shouldn’t expect a miracle to happen within a few months. I think it is too much to change four foreign coaches in as many years,” he says.

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