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    First-ever Nagornyy Karabakh football league set to kick off 1 August

    Arminfo
    31 Jul 04


    STEPANAKERT

    The Nagornyy Karabakh Republic will start to have its own open
    football league on 1 August.

    Ayk Dzhavadyan, vice-president of the Artsakh Armenian name for
    Karabakh Football Federation, which was registered recently, announced
    this at a press conference in Stepanakert capital of Nagornyy Karabakh
    today. He said that in Soviet times Nagornyy Karabakh football had
    been represented by the "Karabakh" team which had been successful
    enough to get into the USSR's 2nd league division. Football was a
    popular and well-liked game in Karabakh but football life in the
    republic had died because of the armed conflict with Azerbaijan up
    until 1994. From 1994-95 several Karabakh teams had had to join the
    Armenian leagues. And so from 1 August Karabakh will have its own
    league, Ayk Dzhavadyan said.

    He announced that having the league was possible thanks to the active
    cooperation of Arkadiy Gukasyan, president of the republic, and the
    Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport, as well as from the US
    entrepreneur and philanthropist Grach Kaprielian, who is also the
    president of the Artsakhk Football Federation.

    Ayk Dzhavadyan also said that in the last 2-3 years 500,000 US dollars
    had been invested in developing football in Karabakh. "The Nagornyy
    Karabakh Republic's football league is aimed not only at reviving the
    best traditions of Karabakh football, improving the physical health of
    the population and providing means for practising this sport, which is
    popular throughout the world, but also at contributing towards the
    coming into being and strengthening of our state and helping the
    international recognition of the Nagornyy Karabakh Republic. We also
    hope to set up close ties and cooperation with teams from other
    countries," Ayk Dzhavadyan noted.

    Nine teams will take part in the league which will be run along
    European lines. The teams are from Stepanakert and all regions of
    Nagornyy Karabakh, as well as one team from the town of Goris in the
    Republic of Armenia. The Nagornyy Karabakh Republic's championship
    league will end in the middle of November. The winners will receive
    medals, certificates and prizes.
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