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Football Federation of Armenia announced the voting results of the Player of the Year 2020, the FFA reports. Armenian National team captain Henrikh Mkhitaryan voted Player of the Year collecting 133 points. This is the 10th title for Henrikh Mkhitaryan. FC Astana midfielder Tigran Barseghyan is in the second place with 79 points...

December 25, 2020 - 15:36 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Roma attacker Henrikh Mkhitaryan will reportedly have his contract with Roma extended for one more year until 2022, Roma Press cited Filippo Biafora of Il Tempo as saying on Friday, December 25. Mkhitaryan has been one of the standouts during the first half of the Serie A campaign...

Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton has been voted BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2020, BBC reports. One of F1's all-time great drivers, he equalled Michael Schumacher's record of seven world titles with his fourth consecutive championship in 2020. The 35-year-old, from Stevenage, also surpassed Schumacher's total of 91 ...

November 26, 2020 - 22:08 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - UEFA has banned a former official of Azerbaijani side Qarabag for life for incidents of a non-sporting nature and racist behaviour targeting Armenians on social media, European soccer’s governing body said on Thursday, November 26, according to Reuters. UEFA said in a statement th...

World-famous footballer Diego Maradona has died at the age of 61, ARMENPRESS reports, Clarin news outlet informs. Maradona had been discharged from hospital a few days ago. Diego Maradona was born in 1960. In 1986 he won the title of Football World Champion as a member of the Argentine national team....

November 18, 2020 - 13:16 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Four members of Armenia's National Football Team have contracted Covid-19, the country's Football Federation reports. Gevorg Ghazaryan, Sargis Adamyan, André Calisir and Grigor Meliksetyan have not traveled to Cyprus for a UEFA Nations League fixture against North Macedonia on Wed...

November 15, 2020 - 23:33 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Armenia beat Georgia 1:2 in a UEFA Nations League match on Sunday, November 15, the Football Federation of Armenia said in Facebook post. Gevorg Ghazaryan from the Armenian side was the first to score while Georgia's Valeri Qazaishvili levelled the tie in the first half. Sargis Ad...

In the 7th round of Italy’s football cup, Roma was hosted by Genoa club. ARMENPRESS reports Armenian midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan scored a hat-trick. Genoa 1- Roma 3. At the moment Roma is the 3rd in Serie A. Milan is the leader...

November 4, 2020 - 17:56 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - An official at Azeri club Qarabag has been provisionally banned by UEFA while he is investigated for potentially “violating basic rules of decent conduct” in anti-Armenian comments he made on social media, the European soccer body said on Wednesday, November 4, Reuters reports. UEF...

UEFA has banned Azerbaijani club Qarabag FK’s PR and media manager Nurlan Ibrahimov from “exercising any football-related activity” over his heinous statement calling for the killing of "all the Armenians, old and young, without distinction". "The Qarabag FK official, Mr. Nurlan Ibrahimov, is provisionally banned from exercising...