NAKED PR AT BRUSSELS STADIUM
Rusan Amirjanyan
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[04:03 pm] 18 October, 2007
A naked man ran into the field in the 60-th minute of the match. The
footballers and the judges were astonished.
About 3000 Armenian football fans with Armenian flags, some even
painted their faces in red-blue-apricot, came to the Brussels football
stadium to watch Belgium-Armenia match.
They came not only from Brussels and various cities of Belgium,
but from France, Holland and Germany.
By the way, A corner tribune tickets were sold to Armenian fans,
where the scene was bad, and people sat very densely, while the fans
of Belgium team were sitting in Eastern and Western tribunes freely
and comfortably.
In order to reach to the A tribune, the Armenian fans had to pass
through the whole territory of the stadium. After walking or running
1-1,5 kilometers Armenians were examined thoroughly and were made to
hand over all metal objects, including metal and wood handles of flags,
umbrellas, perfume and similar extremely dangerous objects.
However, the "Armenian" tribune was actively encouraging the Armenian
National Team.
"Armenia-Armenia" exclamations were heard all the time. The Armenian
football fans were rather active and we could say that the fight was
equal in the first half of the match.
Our footballers were noticeably animated after the break. They missed
3 goal opportunities during the second half. After each attack by the
Armenian team, the Belgium protectors tried to hide their emotions
and stared at each other and took a deep breath.
However everything took place… .
A naked man ran into the field in the 60-th minute of the match. The
footballers and the judges were astonished and the game even stopped
for a while. The security employees were also surprised by this,
while the young man ran to the center of the field ignoring roars of
laughter and whistles. Many thought that it was unexpected and that
was why the man managed to enter the field freely.
The most astonishing was that the security employees did not hurry to
stop the man, and when he had made a circle round the field and wanted
to conclude his march, the security decided to run toward him and threw
him onto the ground. They pinioned the man’s arms and took him away.
It was obvious that the man could not enter the filed without the
"help" of security, since their number was great and they supervised
the stadium very well.
Even in the A tribune, the Armenian fans had no right to breach the
border of the tribune, which was free and the field was seen well.
They could not even stand: "Sit down, please,- the security employees
insisted,-if you have bought the ticket for X place, you should stay
in you place".
They were very attentive and strict toward our fans.
Anyway, after this "trick" our footballers were finally broken. The
Belgium team captured the Armenian gate 3 times during 63-76
minutes. After the first goal they were animated and became more
aggressive, their fans also became active after this. After 80-th
minute some of Armenian fans left the stadium saying to the guards
in French: "You defeated us again".
Those who were still in the stadium said to those who left: "You
should not leave our boys just because they are loosing…"