”Arsenal was afraid to bring Makkitaryan to Azerbaijan”

Speaking ahead of the Europe League meeting in Baku today, the Capabag coach said it was the right decision to leave the Armenian out as things could get worse during the match.

Mkhitaryan was left outside Borussia Dortmund's team to face Azerbaijan's Azer in 2015, due to continued tensions between Armenia's and Azerbaijani governments over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh mountains, from which the Capabag team has also been named, broadcast Periscope.

” I don't want politics to affect the sport, but there's nothing we can do about it”, said Gurbanov, who also manages Azerbaijan's national team. “Arsenal tried to save this player, but it's not a matter for us if he comes or doesn't/”.

” Arsenal may fear that 60,000 of Azerbaijani fans, Makkitaryan, would have pressure and that's why they didn't get it at all”, he said. /Periscopi/

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