UEFA NATIONS LEAGUE - 2018/19 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS Vazgen Sargsyan anvan Hanrapetakan Marzadasht - Yerevan Saturday 13 October 2018 Armenia 18.00CET (20.00 local time) Gibraltar Group D4 - Matchday 3 Last updated 13/10/2018 01:01CET Previous meetings 2 Squad list 3 Head coach 6 Match officials 7 Competition facts 8 Match-by-match lineups 11 Legend 13 1 Armenia - Gibraltar Saturday 13 October 2018 - 18.00CET (20.00 local time) Match press kit Vazgen Sargsyan anvan Hanrapetakan Marzadasht, Yerevan Previous meetings Head to Head No UEFA competition matches have been played between these two teams 2 Armenia - Gibraltar Saturday 13 October 2018 - 18.00CET (20.00 local time) Match press kit Vazgen Sargsyan anvan Hanrapetakan Marzadasht, Yerevan Squad list Armenia League phase No. Player DoB Age Club D Pld Gls Goalkeepers 1 Arsen Beglaryan 18/02/1993 25 Liepāja - 0 0 12 Anatoli Aivazov 08/06/1996 22 Banants - 0 0 16 Aram Airapetyan 22/11/1986 31 Banants - 2 0 Defenders Zaria 2 Artyom Khachaturov 18/06/1992 26 - 0 0 Balti 3 Varazdat Haroyan 24/08/1992 26 Ural - 2 0 4 Taron Voskanyan 22/02/1993 25 Alashkert - 0 0 15 Hrayr Mkoyan 02/09/1986 32 Esteghlal - 0 0 17 Gagik Daghbashyan 19/10/1990 27 Alashkert - 0 0 19 Hovhannes Hambartsumyan 04/10/1990 28 Paralimni - 2 0 Midfielders 5 Artak Grigoryan 19/10/1987 30 Alashkert - 0 0 6 Karlen Mkrtchyan 25/11/1988 29 Pyunik * 2 0 7 Edgar Malakyan 22/09/1990 28 Zhetysu - 0 0 8 Marcos Pizzelli 03/10/1984 34 Aktobe - 2 1 FC 9 Gor Malakyan 12/06/1994 24 Ararat- * 2 0 Armenia 10 Gevorg Ghazaryan 05/04/1988 30 Chaves - 2 0 13 Kamo Hovhannisyan 05/10/1992 26 Zhetysu - 0 0 18 Henrikh Mkhitaryan 21/01/1989 29 Arsenal - 2 0 20 Tigran Barseghyan 22/09/1993 25 Vardar * 2 1 21 Rumyan Hovsepyan 13/11/1991 26 Pyunik - 0 0 23 Petros Avetisyan 07/01/1996 22 Pyunik - 0 0 Forwards 11 Artur Sarkisov 01/07/1987 31 Yenisey * 1 0 Chicago 14 Yura Movsisyan 02/08/1987 31 - 0 0 Fire 22 Sargis Adamyan 23/05/1993 25 Jahn - 1 0 Coach - Armen Gyulbudaghyants 19/12/1966 51 - 0 0 3 Armenia - Gibraltar Saturday 13 October 2018 - 18.00CET (20.00 local time) Match press kit Vazgen Sargsyan anvan Hanrapetakan Marzadasht, Yerevan Gibraltar League phase No. Player DoB Age Club D Pld Gls Goalkeepers Gibraltar 1 Kyle Goldwin 24/04/1985 33 - 2 0 United Gibraltar 13 Matt Cafer 27/09/1994 24 - 0 0 Phoenix College 23 Dayle Coleing 23/10/1996 21 - 0 0 Europa Defenders Lincoln 2 Jean-Carlos Garcia 05/07/1992 26 - 1 0 Red Imps Lincoln 3 Joseph Chipolina 14/12/1987 30 - 2 0 Red Imps West Didsbury & 4 John Sergeant 27/02/1995 23 * 2 0 Chorlton AFC College 5 Ethan Jolley 29/03/1997 21 - 0 0 Europa Lincoln 6 Louie Annesley 03/05/2000 18 - 0 0 Red Imps Lincoln 11 Alain Pons 16/09/1995 23 - 2 0 Red Imps Abingdon 12 Jayce Mascarenhas-Olivero 02/07/1998 20 - 2 0 United Lincoln 14 Roy Chipolina 20/01/1983 35 - 0 0 Red Imps Gibraltar 15 Erin Barnett 02/09/1996 22 * 2 0 United Lincoln 20 Ethan Britto 30/11/2000 17 - 0 0 Red Imps Midfielders Lincoln 8 Anthony Bardon 19/01/1993 25 - 2 0 Red Imps College 10 Liam Walker 13/04/1988 30 - 2 0 Europa Lincoln 16 Kyle Casciaro 02/12/1987 30 - 0 0 Red Imps Lincoln 17 Andrew Hernandez 10/01/1999 19 - 0 0 Red Imps Manchester 18 Scott Ballantine 12/04/1996 22 - 0 0 62 Forwards Lincoln 7 Lee Casciaro 29/09/1981 37 - 2 0 Red Imps 9 Reece Styche 03/05/1989 29 Darlington * 2 0 Lincoln 19 George Cabrera 14/12/1988 29 - 0 0 Red Imps 4 Armenia - Gibraltar Saturday 13 October 2018 - 18.00CET (20.00 local time) Match press kit Vazgen Sargsyan anvan Hanrapetakan Marzadasht, Yerevan Gibraltar League phase Lincoln 21 Jamie Coombes 27/05/1996 22 - 0 0 Red Imps Coach - Julio Ribas 08/01/1957 61 - 2 0 5 Armenia - Gibraltar Saturday 13 October 2018 - 18.00CET (20.00 local time) Match press kit Vazgen Sargsyan anvan Hanrapetakan Marzadasht, Yerevan Head coach Armen Gyulbudaghyants Date of birth: 19 December 1966 Nationality: Armenian Playing career: Spartak Hoktemberyan, Lori, Banants, Homenetmen Lebanon Coaching career: Banants (twice), Armenia Under-19, Armenia U21, Pyunik (twice), Impuls, Alashkert, Gol Gahar (assistant), Padideh (assistant), Armenia • A powerful and creative midfielder, Gyulbudaghyants spent the early part of his career in the USSR lower leagues before joining Banants in 1992, finishing third in the league and winning the Armenian Cup in the first post- independence season. He scored 17 goals in 61 appearances for the club before retiring aged 29 after suffering a knee injury that also restricted him to a single senior cap for Armenia. • Switched to coaching and in 2001 returned to Banants, combining his new role with gaining coaching qualifications. In 2007 he went to Moscow to study, becoming the first Armenian coach to acquire a UEFA Pro Licence. • His most successful spell followed at Pyunik between May 2007 and July 2008, players such as Henrikh Mkhitaryan, Gevorg Ghazaryan and Karlen Mkrtchyan breaking through and going on to become the backbone of the national side. • Gyulbudaghyants guided Pyunik to the 2007 league title and took Impuls to the Armenian Cup final four years later, his most notable coaching achievements; however, he also has a fine record in improving his sides' results and developing young players. • Stepped up to take charge of Armenia in October 2018 following the departure of Vardan Minasyan. Julio César Ribas Date of birth: 8 January 1957 Nationality: Uruguayan Playing career: Bella Vista (three times), Nacional Montevideo (twice), Liverpool Montevideo, Gimnasia LP, Sud América, Defensor Sporting, River Plate Montevideo (twice), Mayindú, Cartaginés Coaching career: Sud América, Nacional Asunción, Bella Vista (twice), Peñarol (twice), Liverpool Montevideo, Venezia, Juventud de las Pedras, Oman, Deportivo Maldonado, Cartagena, Lincoln Red Imps, Gibraltar • During a 17-year playing career that was mostly spent in his native Uruguay but also took him to Argentina's Gimnasia and Cartagines in Costa Rica, Ribas won the Uruguayan league with Nacional in 1977 and Bella Vista in 1990 and also won second division titles in his homeland with Liverpool and River Plate, in addition to his ten caps for Uruguay. • His coaching career started successfully with a second division title for his first club, Sud América. Another second- tier championship success three years later with Bella Vista, whom he had represented three times as a player, earned a move to Montevideo giants Peñarol, where Ribas remained for three years, winning the Uruguayan national championship in 1999. • His first move outside Uruguay brought him to Venice, but it did not go to plan as Venezia were relegated from Italy's Serie B. Ribas then tried his hand at international football, coaching Oman for a short spell in 2008. • Back at Peñarol, he helped steer the club to the 2009 Uruguayan title but was soon on the move again, eventually ending up in Spain's Segunda División B (third tier) with Cartagena in 2014/15. • He was appointed coach of Lincoln Red Imps, the perennial champions of Gibraltar, in April 2016, and although they were pipped to the title in his first full season, Ribas nevertheless made a name for himself by leading the team to a sensational 1-0 home first-leg win over Celtic in a UEFA Champions League qualifier (albeit in a 1-3 aggregate defeat) and then reclaiming the national title for Lincoln in 2017/18 before taking over as head coach of the Gibraltar national team. 6 Armenia - Gibraltar Saturday 13 October 2018 - 18.00CET (20.00 local time) Match press kit Vazgen Sargsyan anvan Hanrapetakan Marzadasht, Yerevan Match officials Referee Fedayi San (SUI) Assistant referees Sladan Josipović (SUI) , Marco Zürcher (SUI) Additional assistant referees Alain Bieri (SUI) , Lukas Fähndrich (SUI) Fourth official Bekim Zogaj (SUI) UEFA Delegate Robert Kispal (HUN) UEFA Referee observer Nicolae Grigorescu (ROU) Referee Name Date of birth UEFA matches Fedayi San 11/11/1982 0 18 UEFA Nations League matches between the two teams No such matches refereed Other matches involving teams from either of the two countries involved in this match No such matches refereed 7 Armenia - Gibraltar Saturday 13 October 2018 - 18.00CET (20.00 local time) Match press kit Vazgen Sargsyan anvan Hanrapetakan Marzadasht, Yerevan Competition facts What is the background to the UEFA Nations League? The rejuvenation of national team football – and the UEFA Nations League – stems from the desire of UEFA and its 55 member associations to improve the quality and standing of national team football. UEFA and its associations wanted more sporting meaning in national team football, with associations, coaches, players and supporters increasingly of the opinion that friendly matches are not providing adequate competition for national teams. Extensive consultation and discussions started as far back as the 2011 UEFA Strategy Meeting in Cyprus and continued at a series of Top Executive Programme (TEP) meetings over the following three years. The UEFA Nations League was unanimously adopted at the XXXVIII Ordinary UEFA Congress in Astana on 27 March 2014. What is the basic format? The format of the UEFA Nations League features promotion and relegation. The 55 European national teams have been divided into four leagues in accordance with UEFA's national association coefficient rankings on 11 October 2017.