Tiknizyan: “I was labeled as an unbalanced person who brings balls into his own goal”

Lokomotiv footballer Nair Tiknizyan said that he was considered an unbalanced person, but he was able to get rid of this stigma.

The 24-year-old defender moved to the railway camp from CSKA in 2021. As part of the army team, he won the Russian Super Cup in 2018.

— Criticism? This is normal for our sport. This works both one way and the other. Today you are loved, and tomorrow you are despised. And vice versa. It is important to remain stable in your actions. There was a barrage of criticism in my direction when I moved to Lokomotiv, when I left and clashed with the fans. I was labeled as an unbalanced person who brought balls into his own goal. I managed to disown this.

It’s hard to offend me, I was just angry about it. I always knew that criticism directed at me was biased. People had to admit that I was trying, I was trying. If you knock on a closed door at a distance, it will open sooner or later,” RB Sport quotes Tiknizyan as saying.

This season, Tiknizyan played 23 matches, scored 8 goals and made 5 assists. Lokomotiv scored 31 points and is in fourth place in the MIR RPL standings.

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