KARABAKH TO HOST CIS JOURNALISTS’ FOOTBALL TOURNAMENT FOR THE FIRST TIME

PanARMENIAN.Net
08.05.2009 21:05 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ For the first time in history, NKR capital
Stapenakert is hosting a football tournament of CIS journalists. The
tournament, scheduled for 15-18 May, 2009, will be held under
the patronage of NKR President Bako Sahkyan, Armenian Foreign
Correspondents Association (FCA) and NKR Sports Committee.

The journalist commands will arrive from Moscow, Volgograd, Bryansk,
Samtskhe-Javakheti, Vilnius and Yerevan.

The winners will be awarded cups and memory prizes. Five award
categories envisage prizes for the best players including best
goal-keeper, best goal-scorer, best fullback and best forward.

At the end of tournament, there will be a gala match between the CIS
journalists and NKR government and veterans’ command.

Football matches between CIS journalist commands have a history of
10 years. The first match was organized in St. Petersburg under the
patronage of Mayor V. Yakovlev. Later, such matches were organized in
Baku, Kishinev, Yerevan, Sochi, Moscow, Odessa, Bryansk and Volgograd.

Armenian journalists’ team is a one-time champion (2002) and three-time
Bronze medal winner.

The Armenian media team will be represented by the following players:

Armen Petrosyan (Tert.Am) David Nazaryan (PanARMENIAN.Net) Aram Aroyan
(Regnum) Yurij Manvelyan (Tert.Am) Aram Titanyan (Â"90 Minutes"
newspaper) Hovhannes Hakobyan (Armenian-Russian Business Journal)
Arman Alaverdyan (Mediamax) Tigran Hovhannisyan, captain of the command
(banker.am)