Favorite Armenian Futball club

[xBaron Dants]

Road trip eh? I'm up for it. As long as they don't stop me at the border because I'm born in Syria. Probably somewhere in North America this year, and Europe later.

As for Hakopyan...I'm guessing he's going to be surpassed by Ronaldo. Oh well. 45 goals should still get him a good shot with a strong team (hopefully).


IN OTHER NEWS: Armenia's junior futbol team beat Cyprus's junior team 3-1 today. The game's second half was cancelled because of heavy rain though.

[TJ]

wow great news. where did you hear about that. i thought the tournament was supposed to start tomorrow?

[xBaron Dants]

This is the junior squad. They usually always precede the A-teams.

Check www.a1plus.am

Always good to have more than one side to a story, and they have by far the best coverage for sports.

[fstkhnan]

is this all about Armenian club teams??

[xBaron Dants]

Originally posted by fstkhnan is this all about Armenian club teams??

Kind of hard to say anything more when only 2 people talk about it...

[TJ]

wow that website sure has improved since hte las time i checked it. now i bookmarked it. thanks again.

the reason for why i was confused is that we play hungary tomorrow and i expected the games in that order. aright brother. im out for tonight

[xBaron Dants]

Originally posted by TigranJamharian wow that website sure has improved since hte las time i checked it. now i bookmarked it. thanks again.

the reason for why i was confused is that we play hungary tomorrow and i expected the games in that order. aright brother. im out for tonight

Yea, it's a well made site. Bad english translations, but most people who read it probably read it in armenian anyways.

Alright, any guesses for our game versus Hungary? I'll go for a 2-1 upset in favour of our guys. Goals by Manucharyan and Melikyan.

davay, I'm out too. Gotta translate two Tumanyan stories (Barekendan and Kikosi Mahe) to arevmtahayeren, and transform them into plays so my talented cub scouts can present it to my not-so-talented cub scouts...

[TJ]

i guess im back. heh. got bored.

thats a very optimistic outlook. i am gonna have to say a 1-1 draw. with manchuryan scoring.

those are two of my favorite tumanyan stories. good luck

but i must say frankly baron jan i dont approve of translation from one dialect to another. it kills the charm, and what is the purpose, i am sure they would understand what is going on without translation. this is not directed just at you but also to some other western armenians i know. for example I did a play last year of ankhelk marte and the director for some reason insisted that it be translated to arevmtahayeren. It pissed me off because it kills most of hte stories essence and charm and i am sure that people would understand it anyway without translation. sorry if that was a little repetitive heh.

[xBaron Dants]

Alright. Only will Armenians move from futbol to the translation of Tumayan stories, and then back to futbol.

Here is my humble opinion on the issue...

The state of the armenian language in Montreal (and even more so in Toronto) is deplorable. Knowing these kids, I can conclude that while they would understand the jist of the story, there are many key words that they wouldn't understand. If it were just me telling them the story, I would've kept the arevelahayeren version, because God knows that I've always been a defendant and admirer of the beauty of both dialects. However, the people presenting this will be 9-10 year old kids, who have not had much contact with arevelahayeren in their life. My goal with this is to get these kids to actually KNOW who these authors are. In school, they learn useless biographies which they forget the next day. This way, these stories (and their authors) will be forever etched in their memories, and armenian culture will not be the subject that they are forcefed at school (as hard as it is to admit, that IS the case), but will actually become something fun, and entertaining, and of which they can truly be proud.

My second "strategy" behind this whole thing is that they will first be introduced to the original version, and I will explain the words that they don't get. Then, a few of the cubscouts will present it in the arevmtahay version, as it will be easier for them to say, and will look more natural, which will make the kids enjoy the "play". With this constant shift from one version to another, they will already (and unknowingly) be more familiarized with arevelahayeren.

Now I am preparing these for our winter camp this week, where there will be no parents. Hopefully, by the time we get to summer camp, they will already be ready to act out the arevelahayeren version in front of the parents, and they will actually understand it COMPLETELY.

Now, as promised...back to futbol. 2-1 is quite optimistic, I admit. A draw is probably more logical (if not a loss ) but this is probably the youngest Armenia squad we have ever seen. It can either flop because of the lack of experience, or be a quick, agile, and hungry team. I'm betting on the second option.

[fstkhnan]

daamn i wasnt expecting to find hard core futbol fans....lol this is awesome!