Sports: Armenia to participate in Int’l Youth Football Tournament in Russia

Pan Armenian, Armenia

Jan 27 2018

– 15:07 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net – Armenia will participate in an international youth football tournament in the Russian southern city of Rostov-on-Don in the run-up to the 2018 FIFA World Cup.

The tournament will be held among Rostov-on-Don’s sister cities in May, city mayor Vitaly Kushnaryov said on Friday, January 26, according to Sputnik International.

Rostov-on-Don is twinned with 13 cities, which are: Volos (Greece), Dortmund and Gera (Germany), Le Mans (France), Glasgow (United Kingdom), Kajaani (Finland), Pleven (Bulgaria), Cheongju (South Korea), Yerevan (Armenia), Mobile (United States), Antalya (Turkey), Odessa (Ukraine), and Huangshan (China).

Russia will host FIFA World Cup for the first time in its history from June 14 to July 15, 2018. Games of the tournament will be held in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Rostov-on-Don, Sochi, Yekaterinburg, Saransk, Kaliningrad, Nizhny Novgorod, Kazan, Volgograd and Samara.

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