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Sports: Armenia falls defeated in Caparrós’ debut

Sports Finding
Sept 5 2020

Spanish coach Joaquín Caparrós could not start his career at the helm of the Armenian national team with victory, after falling 2-1 to North Macedonia on Saturday in the first day of the Nations League. The Caparrós team, who took over the Armenian team last March, could not overcome the early goal of Macedonia, which went ahead after 5 minutes of play on the scoreboard (1-0) with a penalty goal from the English Leeds player Egzijan Alioski.

Likewise, the second goal for the local team came from eleven meters, the work of forward Ilija Nestorovski, who did not miss the maximum penalty committed at 38 minutes by the Armenian Hovhannes Hambartsumyan. Two so many that Armenia, who could not count for the contest with his greatest star, the Roma player Henrikh Mkhitaryan, could only respond in the extension time, thanks to a goal from Tigran Barseghyan, who scored the final 2-1 penalty in 94. A defeat from which Caparrós and the Armenian team will have the possibility to compensate in the match that will face them next Tuesday with Estonia in Yerevan.

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