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Published on May 09, 2008
SPORT: ARMENIA’S YOUTH FOOTBALLERS TRIUMPH OVER ITALIAN COEVALS
- Football Armenia’s U-19 national team led by coach Armen Gyulbudaghyants started well in an international friendly tournament in Italy. As reported by Armenia’s Football Federation, in the opening match over last weekend Armenia beat the U-19 team of Italy’s Seria C1 football club Monza – 4-1. In the second match, on Monday, Armenian footballers beat coevals from football club Vicenza (Seria B) with the same score. Armenia’s third and final opponent is the U-19 team of FC Juventus (playing in Seria A) on Saturday, May 10. Meanwhile, Armenia and FC Ajax Amsterdam striker Edgar Manucharyan is reportedly seeking to join another football club on loan. “Despite the fact that I am in a good form, Ajax head coach Adrie Koster does not give me a chance to show myself. Under the circumstances, I see no possibility for progress, Regnum.ru news agency quotes the 21-year-old striker, who never appeared for Ajax’s main team this season. “I’m not happy with my current situation, but I hope that the situation will change in summer.” Manucharyan is quoted as saying that he does not exclude he may be transferred to another club on loan for half a year. FC Ajax expects a new coach in summer. The current head coach of the Dutch national team Marco van Basten is likely to take the helm of the country’s leading club. Chess Armenian grandmaster Sergey Movsisian performing under Slovakia’s flag lacked half a point to share the first spot with the winner in the European individual chess championships among men that recently ended in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Having gained eight points in eleven games Movsisian yielded the champion’s title to Sergey Tivyakov representing the Netherlands and shared 2nd-10th places with other chess-players. Grandmaster Vladimir Hakobyan representing Armenia finished in the 19th place with 7.5 points. The results showed by other Armenians in the men’s section are as follows: GM Gabriel Sargsyan (28th), FM Samvel Ter-Sahakyan (42nd), GM Karen Asryan (67th), GM Tigran Kotanjyan (95th), GM Ashot Anastasyan (124th), GM Tigran Petrosyan (127th), GM Artashes Minasyan (142nd), Dmitri Harutyunyan (316th). A total of 357 chess-players participated in the championships. And IM Lilit Mkrtchyan showed the best result among Armenian women participating in the championship, finishing fifth among 159 participants in the women’s championships with eight points. The championship was won by GM Kateryna Lahno of Ukraine, who scored 8.5 points in eleven rounds. Other Armenians participating in the championship showed the following results: IM Elina Danielyan finished 13th, WGM Nelly Aghinyan finished 62nd, WIM Lilit Galoyan was 63rd, WIM Siranush Andreasyan was 96th and Anna Hayrapetyan finished 135th. (Source: Championships Official Website www.eicc2008.com)
- Suren Musayelyan
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- 1847 With the participation of the gentry and commoners, the National, Ecclesiastic, and Supreme Council is created in Constantinople. It is the first step towards the creation of the "Constitution".
- 1859 A Committee, consisting of 5 clergymen and 14 laymen, is struck in Constantinople to write the "Constitution". The Chariman was Rusinian.
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