Topic: soccer

WASHINGTON — Armenia’s national soccer team remains a tough opponent for its groupmates in Euro 2024 qualifying games. After defeating Wales and Latvia last June, the Armenian squad collected six scores and ranked 2nd in Group D of[...]

YEREVAN — Four Armenian soccer clubs played in the second round of the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) Europa Conference League, a third-tier annual soccer competition organized by the UEFA for eligible European soccer[...]

PARIS (Combined Sources) — On June 15, at the Saint-Honoré Church in Paris, the shirt worn by the AC Milan striker Olivier Giroud during the quarter-final match between France and England at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar was auctioned[...]

WASHINGTON — The last time the Armenian squad defeated a national soccer team in a match outside Armenia was over two years ago. The last time Armenia played with Wales was in 2001: back then, the teams drew twice in the World Cup[...]

YEREVAN (Armenpress) — Henrikh Mkhitaryan, the former midfielder of the national football team of Armenia, and now a member of Inter Milan team, met with Pope Francis and presented him with his football jersey on November 14. It is noted[...]

By Arto Manoukian Special to the Mirror-Spectator/Abaka YEREVAN — Two nations in war and turmoil faced each other in a Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) Nations League soccer game in Yerevan on September 24 at the Vazgen[...]

YEREVAN — In recent days people in kilts, a man’s skirt-like traditional garment of Scotland, were spotted in Yerevan. This unusual scene for Armenia was due to nearly 1.000 Scottish soccer fans arriving to support their national[...]

YEREVAN — Armenia defeated Ireland with the minimal 1:0 margin necessary to clinch victory, even though the Armenian national squad scored two goals; the first one by Tigran Barsegian at the 51st minute was dismissed as the goal check[...]

By Maria Cozette Akopian, MBA, EdD Special to the Mirror-Spectator MAHWAH, N.J. — Alecko Eskandarian grew up in New Jersey with a father who had an illustrious soccer career. Quite literally, Alecko followed in his father’s footsteps[...]

By Gavin Gummiskey BAKU (Irish Times)  — When investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova began reporting on the family wealth of Azerbaijan president Ilham Aliyev — including his daughter’s control of the construction company that[...]