Real Salt Lake: Yura Movsisyan is making lots of enemies despite scoring buckets of goals lately

July 13, 12:07 PMUtah Sports ExaminerBrian Shaw

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Apparently, Real Salt Lake forward Yura Movsisyan is headed to Denmark for good in January. He actually wanted to get the hell out of Dodge earlier, but the gods at Randers FC, his new club, wouldn’t make it happen.

So Yura’s stuck here, somewhere between a rock called the Wasatch Mountains and a front office that isn’t exactly pleased with the fact Yura took a photo holding his new team’s jersey before the ink on the contract went dry.

What impeccable timing Yura has, leaving just as he finally gets going in the goal-scoring column and making his fans hit the panic button. Luckily, Yura will stick around for the rest of the season according to The Trib, but then he’s off to Europe.

Even so, the move to Denmark is a bit interesting, considering Yura had about as much luck finding the net in the first two months this season as Clint Mathis has had with Propecia. And Denmark, particularly Randers, isn’t really a step up from Major League Soccer.

But I doubt that’s why Yura is looking overseas. I’m sure his hope is to eventually latch onto a bigger European club. It may happen; the kid has loads of talent; he just seems to put it all together at the most inopportune moments.

Realize that once Yura got going in the goal-scoring column--and it didn’t happen for the first two months of the season--he accepted the contract while playing like the second coming of Wayne Rooney. It’s only obvious that RSL would be angry, because at the end of the season they stand to lose their second leading scorer (4 goals, two assists).

Movsisyan has arguably been RSL’s hottest player in June. In the first few months of the regular season, however, RSL fans might recall that Yura did absolutely nothing constructive, basically stumbling over opposing defenders as he tried to juke them, all to no avail. This after a preseason in which Yura was dynamic, scoring goals with ease.

You know, looking back on that preseason, I recall hearing something about some scouts from Denmark being present. Lo and behold, Yura was spectacular, crushing balls into the net and working like a madman who just drank 50 billion cans of Xango in one sitting.

Here’s hoping Yura takes the emotion of his pending European move--barring some unforeseen injury--and makes the most of it, because he’ll need to do something in order not to annoy the fans any further.