FOOTBALL LIKE IN POLITICS

Octob er 17, 2009

Today the Armenian delegation headed by president Serzh Sargsyan left
for Turkey to watch the football qualification match 2010 between
the teams of Armenia and Turkey in Bursa city of Turkey. The Turkish
foreign minister Ahmed Davutoglu met the president’s delegation
in the airport of Bursa. From the airport Serzh Sargsyan went to
Holiday Inn hotel, where he met with the Armenian national football
team. Later his delegation arrived at Almira hotel in Bursa, where
he was met by Turkish president Abdullah Gull. In this hotel the
Armenian and Turkish presidents had a face-to-face meeting, which
was followed by a wider negotiation between the Armenian and Turkish
delegations. After the meeting a dinner was organized in the name of
the Armenian president. After the dinner the delegations left for the
stadium after Ataturk to watch the football match. It is a pity that
the Armenian team was beaten 2:0 as last time when they were playing
in their own country. However, the bad thing is that the play of
our team was very like the confused behavior of the foreign minister
Edward Nalbandyan during the process of signing the Armenia-Turkey
protocols on Saturday. We need sport optimism to really hope that the
football diplomacy will not lose like the football match. Of course
if it has not lost yet.