Monday, October 15 2018 13:38

ArmInfo. The Football Federation of Armenia refutes the information spread in the media that UEFA allegedly fined the FFA with 100 thousand euros for the  fact that during the match between the national teams of Armenia and  Gibraltar, instead of the anthem of Gibraltar, the anthem of  Liechtenstein sounded.

The Head of the FFA public relations department, Hayk Karapetyan, in  an interview with ArmInfo correspondent refutes this information:  "How can UEFA make such a decision if its disciplinary commission has  not yet met. This decision is made by this commission, I wonder where  the media got this information from" .

At the same time, he did not rule out the possibility that UEFA could  indeed fine Armenia, but not because of the "confusion with the  anthems", but because of the behavior of the Armenian fans after the  last match.  "I cannot say yet when the meeting of the disciplinary  commission will take place, and what decision will be made at it, but  there is such a possibility. Everything depends on what the  representative of the organization writes in his report," Karapetyan  explained.

At the same time, he did not want to comment on the results of the  game between the national teams of Armenia and Gibraltar, saying that  it was not within his competence. "I can only say that the Football  Federation is responsible only for the organization of the match,  and, the management and coaching staff of the team are responsible  for the game and its results. I think it's unfair to put forward any  demands of the newly elected FFA leadership," Karapetyan concluded.   To note the match between the national teams of Armenia and Gibraltar  ended with an unexpected 0: 1 result in favor of the team of  Gibraltar, which caused strong dissatisfaction among Armenian fans,  who after the match began throwing bottles at the players, but the  police prevented these attempts, there was a clash between the fans  and the police. After that, the network appeared petitions demanding  the resignation of the head of the FFA and the coaching staff of the  team.  There was another curious case at the match - instead of the  anthem of Gibraltar the Liechtenstein anthem sounded.