Sports: Opening of CONIFA European Cup in Stepanakert

Emil Lazarian 2019
News.am, Armenia
June 1 2019
 
 
Opening of CONIFA European Cup in Stepanakert
 
By Samvel Sukiasyan from Stepanakert
 
The opening ceremony of CONIFA European Cup was held in Stepanakert on Satuday, June 1.
 
The matches of the first round will start on June 2. The group stage will continue to June 4, while the final is set for June 9.
 
The Artsakh squad will face Abkhazia, Chameria and Sapmi in Group A.
 
Western Armenia's Group B rivals are South Ossetia, Szekely Land and Padania.
 
The CONIFA European Football Cup is an international football tournament for states, minorities, stateless peoples and regions unaffiliated with FIFA with an affiliation to Europe.
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“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