Artur Petrosyan

He also scouts for young football talents in Russia and Armenia for the Guardian’s annual feature

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, Henrikh Mkhitaryan and others, but the most remarkable interview he’s ever had, as Petrosyan once stated, was with Bruce Grobbelaar 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 with the best result and the biggest return on investment.

Petrosyan represents Russia in the jury of the biggest media annual voting on the Player of the Year, held by the Guardian, since 2014.

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. He’s been the editor-in-chief of the website since then.

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, Ruud Gullit and Bebeto among others.

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

His first position was at Dynamo Moscow Football Club in 2001 as a presenter, interpreter and stadium announcer at International matches.

Artur Petrosyan (Russian: Арту́р Петросья́н ; born 21 September 1979 in Moscow, Soviet Union) is a Russian football journalist, editor-in-chief and football scout.