{"id":115351,"date":"2011-07-22T11:26:12","date_gmt":"2011-07-22T06:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=115351"},"modified":"2011-07-22T11:26:12","modified_gmt":"2011-07-22T06:26:12","slug":"mika-loses-to-valerenga-again-armenia-out-of-the-running-in-european-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/07\/22\/mika-loses-to-valerenga-again-armenia-out-of-the-running-in-european-championships.html","title":{"rendered":"Mika Loses to V\u00e5lerenga Again. Armenia Out of the Running in European Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last Armenian football club still in the running in the European leagues, FC Mika, on Thursday lost <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uefa.com\/uefaeuropaleague\/season=2012\/matches\/round=2000269\/match=2007110\/index.html\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">0-1<\/span><\/strong><\/a> to visiting team V\u00e5lerenga in the second qualifying round of UEFA Europa League and lost the chance to continue to the next round. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uefa.com\/uefaeuropaleague\/season=2012\/matches\/round=2000269\/match=2007070\/index.html\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Mika lost to V\u00e5lerenga<\/span><\/strong><\/a> with the same score a week ago when the Norwegian team hosted the Yerevan football club.<\/p>\n<p>Mika kept their net well protected in the first half (with Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan&#8217;s presence in the stadium); however, at the start of the second half, Freddy Dos Santos scored the only goal of the game, at the 49th minute. Till the end of the match, the home team had two to three opportunities to score, but they failed to convert any goal-scoring opportunities. The Norwegians, in turn, didn&#8217;t exert much effort in increasing their advantage and seemed to be satisfied with the minimum win.<\/p>\n<p>Note, four Armenian football clubs \u2014 Pyunik, Banants, Ulysses and Mika \u2014 in European championships played 8 matches, 7 of which they lost and in 1 case (Banants) the match was a draw. All the Armenian teams were left out of the first rounds they participated in, scoring 2, but missing 18 balls.<\/p>\n<p>After this year&#8217;s unsuccessful performances, Armenia finds itself in 50th place in the <a href=\"http:\/\/kassiesa.home.xs4all.nl\/bert\/uefa\/data\/method4\/crank2012.html\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>2012 UEFA Country Ranking<\/strong><\/span><\/a> list, ahead only of the Faroe Islands, Andorra and San Marino.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After this year&#8217;s unsuccessful performances, Armenia finds itself in 50th place in the 2012 UEFA Country Ranking list&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":115321,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[65942,29374,28808,15846,29763,29762],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115351"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}