Arsenal FC have announced on 21 May 2019 that Armenian midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan would not be travelling with the rest of the team to Baku, Azerbaijan, for the Europa League Final.
Following the Nagorno-Karabakh War, an ethnic and territorial conflict that took place in the late 1980s to May 1994, conflicts between Armenia and Azerbaijan have remained.
Henrikh Mkhitaryan, of Armenia, has therefore decided with Arsenal FC not to take...
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