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FOOTBALL TEAM OF ARMENIAN JOURNALISTS TO PARTICIPATE IN CIS SECOND
INTERNATIONAL MINI FOOTBALL TOURNAMENT

08.04.2005 03:34

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The football team of Armenian journalists with
the patronage of the Armenian President will depart for Odessa to
take part in the CIS Second International Mini Football Tournament
dedicated to the 60-th anniversary of the victory in the Great
Patriotic War, IA Regnum reports. The competitions were initiated
by the Association of the Sports Journalists of the Odessa region
and the Regional Union of Veterans of Afghanistan War. The matches
will be played in the best sports complexes on Odessa. Besides the
Armenian team, teams from Odessa, Brest, Volgograd, Kiev and Saint
Petersburg will take place in the competitions. The winners will be
awarded with cups and diplomas. The main goal of the competition is
to strengthen friendship between nations, respect to the immortal
feat of the homeland defenders. To note, in 2001 the team of Armenian
journalists became the bronze medallist in Moldova; in 2002 in Yerevan
it became the CIS champion.