Azerbaijan’s Qarabag FK loses UEFA appeal over racist sanctions

Public Radio of Armenia

Jan 29 2021

UEFA’s appeals body has upheld a €100,000 fine imposed last November on Qarabag FK and rejected the club’s appeal.

The fine was meted out as part of a wider sanction handed down on the Azerbaijani champions for a social media post that showed “racist behavior” and “incidents of a non-sporting nature.”

UEFA banned an Qarabag official Nurlan Ibrahimov for life from football-related activity after the Armenian Football Federation (FFA) complained about a post on social media by Nurlan Ibrahimov “calling to kill all the Armenians, old and young, without distinction.”

Ibrahimov posted: “We [Azerbaijanis] must kill all Armenians – children, women and the elderly. We need to kill them without making a distinction. No regrets. No compassion.”

UEFA requested FIFA to extend worldwide the above-mentioned life ban. It also fined Qarabag FK €100,000.

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