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    Categories: 2019

Sports: Armenia advances two spots in FIFA rankings

Panorama, Armenia
Sept 19 2019
Sport 16:07 19/09/2019 Armenia

Armenia’s national football team has moved up two places to 96th in the latest FIFA world rankings released on Thursday after beating Italy and Bosnia and Herzegovina in Euro 2020 qualifiers.

The rankings are still led by Belgium, followed by France and Brazil. England is ranked fourth and Portugal comes fifth on the list.

Among Armenia’s competitors in the Euro 2020 Group J Italy holds the highest 15th position.

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