Lokomotiv Moscow football player Nair Tiknizyan, who has an Armenian passport, will be able to take part in the 2024 European Championship qualifying match with Turkey.
Recall that in early March, the 23-year-old defender was called up to the training camp of the Armenian national team. The first round match with the Turks in the Euro qualifiers will be played on 25 March in Yerevan.
“Yes, Tiknizyan got an Armenian passport,” they said. “Sport Express” In the press service of the Armenian national team.
Tiknizyan became a Lokomotiv player by joining a team from CSKA, from which he graduated in the summer of 2021. He played for the Russian youth team and participated in the 2020 European Championship.
This season, the football player played 28 matches for the “railway”, in all competitions in which he scored one goal and five assists.
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The Russian national team gathered in Novogorsk on March 19. The national team will play against Iraq and Iran in this camp.