Sports: Armenian footballers apologize for the defeat against Poland

MediaMax, Armenia
Oct 6 2017
Armenian footballers apologize for the defeat against Poland

This time Armenia lost 1:6 to Poland national football team, the leader of Group E. The Armenian players held a news conference after the match.

Kamo Hovhannisyan

Everything was going very bad. We made elementary mistakes, and our highly professional competitor used the advantage to score goals. I can’t say anything about the match against Kazakhstan, we will see what happens.

Ruslan Koryan

I won’t comment the match. I would just like to apologize to all our fans. The result, the match and everything that’s going on right now is a total disgrace. Please, forgive us.

Edgar Malakyan

There is nothing to say, we played awfully.  I would only ask the journalists and our fans: please, don’t be too harsh on us, we are having tough times now. We need to be together as a nation to be able to get through the difficulties.

Hovhannes Hambardzumyan

There is no reason to be happy for the goal that I scored. We failed in the first half and Poland team scored goals. In fact, it is hard to defeat such a professional team after missing 3 goals. The result couldn’t be worse. We should do everything to get through this and win the last game.

Armenian team will be hosted in Kazakhstan for the last match in group competition. The match will take place on October 8. 

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS