TURKISH JUNIORS TO HOST ARMENIA
Turkish Daily News
Sept 9 2008
Three days after the Turkish national football team traveled to
Yerevan, Armenia for a World Cup qualifying game, it is now the turn
of young Armenians to visit Turkey.
Tonight the Turkish U-21 squad will host the Armenian U-21 team at
Istanbul’s Ali Sami Yen Stadium, in its last match of the 2009 U-21
European Championships qualifying campaign.
Turkey currently leads its group with 16 points, two points ahead of
second placed Czech Republic, and at least a draw against Armenia will
win Turkey a berth in the playoff games to be played on Nov. 11-15.
U-21 team coach Hami Mandıralı, a former Trabzonspor striker, spoke
hopefully about the Armenia game, buoyed by a 2-1 victory over the
Czech Republic on Saturday night in Bursa.
"I hope that we will continue our good from against Armenia," he told
a post-game press conference. "We lost the first game in Armenia,
and this creates pressure on us, but I think we compensated that loss
tonight and matched our goal."
The tickets for the game, scheduled to start 8 p.m., are available
at at YTL 7 each.
In the group’s other game, the Czech Republic hosts Ukraine.
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