Artur Petrosyan (journalist)

After receiving a Master of Economics degree from the Moscow State University of Economics, Statistics, and Informatics he worked at the Sberbank of Russia and Rosneft before quitting and turning his career into football.[3]

His first position was at Dynamo Moscow Football Club in 2001 as a presenter, interpreter and stadium announcer at International matches.[4] Petrosyan was a Dick Advocaat's translator during the UEFA Cup match with Glasgow Rangers, which he managed at the time, and this indirectly served as the beginning of a new stage of his career directly related to football.

In 2003, he started writing for the Futbol magazine, mostly concentrating on investigative journalism and interviewing foreign football players coming to Russia.[5]

In 2007, Petrosyan became the football chief editor at the Russia-2 state TV channel’s official website Sportbox.ru. He was also a host of live shows with a number of famous football celebrities like Oliver Kahn,[6] Ruud Gullit[7] and Bebeto[8] among others.

In 2013, he became the editor-in-chief of Sport Express digital. In 2016, after a dispute with the owners over a collective redundancy at the outlet, which led to his resignation, he started a new project called Sportfakt.ru along with most of the sacked Sport Express journalists and became its editor-in-chief.

Petrosyan has worked at major football events, such as World Cups, European Championships, Champions League and Europa League finals as an observer, reporter and a head of editorial board. He’s interviewed many football starts like Cristiano Ronaldo,[9] Henrikh Mkhitaryan[10] and others, but the most remarkable interview he’s ever had, as Petrosyan once stated, was with Bruce Grobbelaar[11] during the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa.

During the UEFA Euro 2016 tournament Petrosyan was giving analysis and predictions on football matches from France for The Bookmaker Ratings website, competing with other experts. He won the contest [12] with the best result and the biggest return on investment.

As a football scout, he considers his achievement to be the discovery of the little-known at the time Daniil Utkin, Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, Zuriko Davitashvili and Arsen Zakharyan.[13]

Since 2017, he has been a UEFA reporter at the matches of the Russian national team and Russian clubs in European club competitions.[14] [15]

Petrosyan takes part in international backgammon competitions. In 2017, he became an unofficial speedgammon world champion at the world's biggest backgammon event Merit Open.[16]

In an interview, he admitted that the DNA test he took showed family ties with the former captain of Spartak Moscow and the Russian national team, Yegor Titov.[17]

• Artur Petrosyan on Twitter
• Artur Petrosyan at Sportbox
• Artur Petrosyan at Sport Express
• Artur Petrosyan at Sportfakt
• Artur Petrosyan on ESPN FC
• Artur Petrosyan at The New York Times
• Artur Petrosyan at the Guardian