Mkhitaryan’s message ahead of the EURO 2020 qualifiers – Getting ready to cheer for us?

Panorama, Armenia

12:59 23/03/2019

Today, Armenian national football team will begin the UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying campaign with a test away against Bosnia and Herzegovina. Our national team arrived in Sarajevo on Thursday.

National team captain and Arsenal midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan took to Twitter sending a message to the national team fans. “We’re all set for our tie. What about you, getting ready to cheer for us?” Mkhitaryan tweeted.

To note, Group J consists of six teams: Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Finland, Greece, Italy and Liechtenstein, where they will play against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format.

The top two teams will qualify directly for the finals. Unlike previous editions, the participants of the play-offs will not be decided based on results from the qualifying group stage, but instead based on their performance in the 2018–19 UEFA Nations League.

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