MATCH BETWEEN "FRENCH ARMENIAN FOOTBALL STARS" AND "SYMBOLIC FRENCH NATIONAL TEAM" TAKES PLACE IN FRANCE

Noyan Tapan
Armenians Today
Apr 05 2007

ICI-LE-MULINO, APRIL 5, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. A match between
"French Armenian Football Stars" and "Symbolic French National Team"
took place at the stadium of the French city of Ici-Le-Mulion on
March 31.

According to the RA MFA Press and Information Department, world
champions, former members of the French national football team Yuri
Djorkaeff and Alen Bogossian, as well as Eric Asadurian and former
player of Yerevan’s "Ararat" Ashot Khachatrian made the core of
the Armenian team. Advisor of the Armenian embassy in France Vahagn
Atabekian was also included in this team.

The "Symbolic Team" was composed of famous French football-players and
sport commentators. The event was held within the framework of Year
of Armenia in France and closed symbolically a series of 40 events,
which were organized by Ici-Le-Mulino Mayor’s Office and local cultural
and sport unions from February 1 of this year.

The match was started by Mayor of Ici-Le-Mulino Andre Santini,
the Armenian ambassador Eduard Nalbandian and famous TV commentator
Daniel Bilalian.

The "Grands of Armenian Football" won the match with the score
5:0. The event was widely covered by French sports press and various
television channels.

A week before this match, a friendly meeting between the youth national
boxing teams of Armenia and France took place, at which world-famous
French actor Jean Paul Belmondo was present.