Chief coach of the Armenia national football team Vardan Minasyan has summoned 22 players for the October 12 World Cup qualifier against Italy that will be played in Yerevan. The team will have to manage without an injured Levon Hayrapetyan and banned Gevorg Ghazaryan and Marcos Pizzelli.
Goalkeepers: Roman Berezovsky (Dinamo Moscow), Gevorg Kasparov (Mika Yerevan), Artur Harutyunyan (Shirak).
Defenders: Robert Arzumanyan (SKA-Energiya Khabarovsk), Hrayr Mkoyan (Shirak), Valeri Aleksanyan (Sanat Naft), Artak Yedigaryan (Metalurg Donetsk), Kamo Hovhannisyan (Pyunik), Hovhannes Hambardzumyan (Banants), Taron Voskanyan (Pyunik).
Midfielders: Karlen Mkrtchyan (Metalurg Donetsk), Arthur Yedigaryan (Hoverla Uzhhorod), Henrik Mkhitaryan (Shakhtar Donetsk), Aras Ozbiliz (Kuban Krasnodar), Davit Manoyan (Pyunik), Edgar Manucharyan (Ural Sverdlovsk Oblast), Edgar Malakyan (Viktoria Plzen), Zaven Badoyan (Bate Borisov), Arthur Yuspashyan (Pyunik), Karen Muradyan (Shirak).
Strikers: Artur Sarkisov (Sinnik), Yura Movsisyan (Krasnodar).
Italy, with four points from their first two games in Group B visit Armenia on Friday and host Denmark in Milan four days later.
Goalkeepers: Gianluigi Buffon (Juventus), Morgan De Sanctis (Napoli), Salvatore Sirigu (Paris St. Germain), Emiliano Viviano (Fiorentina);
Defenders: Ignazio Abate (AC Milan), Federico Balzaretti (Roma), Andrea Barzagli (Juventus), Leonardo Bonucci (Juventus), Giorgio Chiellini (Juventus), Domenico Criscito (Zenit St Petersburg), Christian Maggio (Napoli), Angelo Ogbonna (Torino), Andrea Ranocchia (Inter)
Midfielders: Antonio Candreva (Lazio), Daniele De Rossi (Roma), Alessandro Diamanti (Bologna), Emanuele Giaccherini (Juventus), Claudio Marchisio (Juventus), Riccardo Montolivo (AC Milan), Andrea Pirlo (Juventus), Marco Verratti (Paris St. Germain);
Forwards: Mario Balotelli (Manchester City), Mattia Destro (AS Roma), Stephan El Shaaraway (AC Milan), Alberto Gilardino (Bologna), Sebastian Giovinco (Juventus), Pablo Osvaldo (Roma)
