2024-05-26 07:45:06
Artsakh Republic President Bako Sahakyan attended the opening ceremony of the Confederation of Impartial Soccer Associations (CONIFA) European Championship on the central stadium of Stepanakert on June 1 and delivered a welcome speech.
“As we speak is a giant and vital occasion in Artsakh. CONIFA European Championship of the Confederation of Impartial Soccer Associations is being held in our nation.
Many visitors from totally different international locations, together with statesmen, have arrived in Artsakh. I wish to welcome Anatoly Bibilov, the President of the fraternal Republic of South Ossetia-Alania State, Per-Anders Blind, the President of CONIFA, Alberto Riscio, the top of the European construction of CONIFA, and all our visitors who’re right here with us. It’s a nice honor for us to welcome you to the land of Artsakh.
Such a global sports activities occasion is going down in our nation for the primary time, and intensive and exhausting work has been executed to carry it at a correct degree.
I wish to deeply thank the organizers of the European Championship of the Confederation of Impartial Soccer Associations, all those that contributed to the holding of this lovely and vital match. I hope that each athletes and soccer followers will benefit from the video games.
Sports activities, particularly soccer, is a kind of distinctive fields that ought to unite nations and folks, strengthen friendship and mutual respect between them, contribute to the institution of ties, promote humanitarian contacts and interplay.
Sport doesn’t acknowledge boundaries and limitations, discrimination and double requirements. It’s a image of peace, the place the combat is truthful and the one who is healthier ready wins.
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There has at all times been a particular perspective in the direction of soccer in Artsakh, and we now have established traditions. For many people, our greatest athletes had been a supply of inspiration, each teen wished to be like them.
I hope that this match will deliver out new soccer faces who will serve for instance for the youthful era and can give us many lovely and memorable moments, completely satisfied and spectacular moments with their sport, turning this championship into an actual sports activities vacation.
I want success to all of you, and should the strongest win.”