Eduard Spertsyan
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Name in Armenian | Էդուարդ Մկրտիչի Սպերցյան |
Birthplace | Stavropol |
Birth date | 7 June 2000 |
Lived in | Stavropol |
Languages | Armenian, Russian |
Ethnicities | Armenian, German |
Dialects | Eastern Armenian |
Eduard Mkrtychevich Spertsyan (Armenian: Էդուարդ Մկրտիչի Սպերցյան; Russian: Эдуард Мкртычевич Сперцян; born 7 June 2000) is a Russian-Armenian professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Russian Premier League club Krasnodar. Born in Russia, he plays for the Armenia national team.
Personal life
Spertsyan was born into a mixed family. His father, an ethnic Armenian, was previously involved in the tobacco business, and his mother has Russian-German roots (her maiden name was Ekman). The footballer has an older brother, Eric, with whom the age difference is three years.
Spertsyan married Alina Karapetyan on June 23, 2023. The celebration took place in Pyatigorsk and was organized in the traditional Armenian style. Alina is a relative of the former Armenian national team footballer Aleksandr Karapetyan.