Suren Dilbaryan. One should never give up

From the 44-Day War to Coach of Noah Academy
 

Mediamax had a wide-ranging interview with Suren Dilbaryan, coach of the “Noah” Academy, who is also a participant of the 44-day war.
 

25-year-old Suren Dilbaryan was seriously injured on the 44th day of the 2020 war, as a result of which he lost his arm and went through long and difficult stages of recovery.
 

“I remember I was late on the day of the exam—I had overslept. But they accommodated me, and then everything went well. After six months of training, I began my coaching career. I gathered a team in Ashtarak, starting with 5-6 students, and later reached 70. Last year, I received an offer from the ‘Noah’ football club, and for a year now I’ve been working there with the youth groups. At first, coaching felt very unusual, especially since I hadn’t been involved in football for a long time, but nothing is impossible.
 

If you set a goal, through hard work you will definitely reach it one day. I worked a lot on myself, and my fellow coaches helped me greatly. Even now, I constantly continue learning and developing my ideas. I consider helping children to be my mission.
 

I don’t want to brag, but in the past year the results have been obvious. On the field I’m very strict, because the goal there is clear: during training you gain knowledge, and then you apply that knowledge in the game. I also get offers for office jobs, even within football, but my place is on the field—even if it’s hard. Football doesn’t care whether it’s scorching sun, rain, or snow. There were times we trained during a flood—nothing can stop us.
 

But there are also people who are in very desperate situations. I constantly try to talk to them and say: it shouldn’t be like that. If you have survived—especially after everything you’ve gone through, after seeing where you’ve managed to come out from—then it means you still have a mission in this life.
 

One day I simply realized I had to think deeply: if God has preserved you, then you have a purpose, you’re not here for nothing. Everyone has come into this life to fulfill their mission and then leave. It’s just that many people don’t want to put in the effort, to struggle. Especially in our country, many people don’t work because they think a certain job doesn’t ‘suit’ them.
 

But everything depends on the person. I set a goal for myself, and now I’m doing this work—trying to be as useful as possible: first to develop myself, then to contribute to the development of others. And in that daily effort, I don’t look whether it’s sunny, raining, or snowing.
 

I love challenges. No matter how much a challenge may temporarily break you or discourage you, only in that way do you become stronger. A person simply shouldn’t live too comfortably; they must be able to come out of difficulties—first of all, remaining human—and then try to help others with their life experience.”
 

Read the full interview here: mediamax.am