Sports: Armenia end Wales’ Euro hopes

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Orange UK News
Aug 15 2012

Armenia end Wales’ Euro hopes

Ten-man Wales’ hopes of reaching next summer’s European Under-21
Championship finals were brought to an end by a 1-0 defeat to Armenia.

New boss Geraint Williams went into the game at Wrexham in the
knowledge that defeat would spell the end of his side’s hopes of
claiming at least a runners-up position with one game to spare.

But the home side never recovered from David Stephens’ sending-off in
the sixth minute for handball, after which Hovhannes Hambardzumyan
struck the opener from the penalty spot.

Hambardzumyan missed a second penalty but Wales failed to fight their
way back into the match, meaning next month’s final Group Three trip
to the Czech Republic is irrelevant to their hopes of qualification.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

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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