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Sports: Gibraltar football team wins 1-0 over Armenia in UEFA Nations League

Devdiscourse
Oct 14 2018



Devdiscourse News Desk yerevan (armenia) Last Updated at 14 Oct 2018, 17:10 IST Gibraltar
  • Defender Joseph Luis Chipolina, 30, netted the lone goal for Gibraltar in the 50th minute, successfully converting a penalty kick on Saturday night. (Image Credit: Twitter)

Gibraltar’s national football team won 1-0 over host Armenia in a UEFA Nations League clash, earning its first competitive victory in its history.

Defender Joseph Luis Chipolina, 30, netted the lone goal for Gibraltar in the 50th minute, successfully converting a penalty kick on Saturday night.

Before Saturday’s victory, Gibraltar, whose football association was accepted as a full UEFA member in May 2013, had only two friendly wins over Latvia and Malta, reports Efe news.

Officials from Vazgen Sargsyan Republican Stadium, in the Armenian capital Yerevan, made a serious gaffe during Saturday’s match when they played the Liechtenstein national anthem instead of Gibraltar’s.

Immediately after the incident, the General Secretary of the Gibraltar Football Association, Dennis Beiso, expressed his disappointment for what happened on social media, and his words were re-tweeted by the Information Service office of Gibraltar’s Government in Spain.

“Extremely disappointed that the wrong national anthem was played before the game tonight. We have sought, and been given, an apology by the Armenian FA and an official announcement has been made to that effect at the stadium here in Yerevan,” Beiso’s tweet said.

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