What a market news from Cyprus! The "five stars" club Ararat Nicosia signed the Polish national team player (and second best goalscorer in his country) Klaudiusz Hirsch from the first division club Akademia Slowa Poznan. The sensational signing was strongly desired by the club president Vahakn Atamian, as he confirmed to Futsalplanet.com in the past days. Atamian had to "fight" against a lot of Polish opponents in order to sign Hirsch, starting since the national runner up Clearex Chorzow. The agreement period with the 27 years old player is based on one season with the chance to extend it for some years more. The polish star is already training with the new team, in which Ararat want to keep on winning on a national level as well as improve their European experience in the UEFA Futsal Cup 2005/2006.

Atamian also declared that another international well known player will join Ararat in October to take part in the UEFA Futsal Cup, even if his name will be announced later.

Also, the national champions signed George Kais and Nicos Timotheou, two soccer players of first division with Apollon Limassol and Olympiakos Nicosia respectively.


Below you can read the official press release published by the club from Cyprus.

23/8/2005

The new star player for ARARAT is Klaudiusz Hirsch. We are in a position to announce that Klaudiusz Hirsch, Polish National team player, Captain of Akademia Slowa Poznan, Player and captain of the Polish University Futsal team and Top scorer of the Polish Futsal Championship for 2004/2005 season has joined ARARAT.
Klaudiusz is a universal player with high scoring ability and his futsal background is very rich. The 27 year old Polish Futsal star was the most wanted futsal player by many Polish teams and also one Spanish team during the summer.
We welcome Klaudiusz to his new team and wish him and his family a fantastic stay in Cyprus and many goals with ARARAT.




Posted by Luca Ranocchiari --> luca.ranocchiari@futsalplanet.com