Armenia and Shakhtar Donetsk playmaker Henrikh Mkhitaryan thinks it is important to find “the right girl” to start a family.
The 24-year-old rising international star on Sunday presented the January issue of his Ukrainian club’s magazine that features him on its cover page. During the event the Armenian soccer talent answered numerous questions from fans that mostly concerned his career at Shakhtar and the upcoming important fixture against a German club, Borrussia Dortmund, in the Champions League.
Mkhitaryan, who has scored 18 goals on his 17 appearances for Shakhtar in the Ukrainian league so far this season, has revealed his ambition to continue scoring for his side both domestically and internationally, in particular in the Wednesday encounter with Bundesliga’s reigning champion. But the attacking midfielder added: “The most important thing is to win. If we win, it will be much more important than an amount of goals scored.”
Mkhitaryan answered some personal questions as well. One of the fans asked him whether he planned to start a family. “I’d love to. If I have time, I will,” said the young bachelor, according to FC Shakhtar’s official website. “The most important thing is to find the right girl who will be faithful to me during the whole life.”
Mkhitaryan, whose late father Hamlet Mkhitaryan also played for FC Ararat in the Soviet championships, said he would not mind playing against the Armenian team if a championship of former Soviet republics were restored in some form.
“Will Ararat take part in it? If so, it would be nice to play with them,” he said. “I’m not the one who decides whether this championship will or won’t be. But if so, then, of course, I will play there, because it’s a very interesting championship involving Russia, Ukraine, Armenia and other countries.”
The idea of setting up a joint league of several former Soviet nations was first publicly floated last year, with the Football Federation of Armenia backing it in principle