"Ararat 73" – 40 years after: After triumphs…

The sole Armenian sports periodical “The Armenian Athlete”, which was published 40 years ago thus referred to “Ararat 73”: “Today’s success of the Armenian footballers is the most significant one. They will leave a trace in the memory of the future generations as well.” Dwelling on the fact of winning the USSR Cup and becoming a champion the columnist of the newspaper stated that despite a number of major and minor obstacles the team managed to came out with credit.

Not only good players, but robust coaches as well secured Ararat’s victory

YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 20, ARMENPRESS. Another analytic article being much more noteworthy and inspirational, is also dedicated to "Ararat 73", which realized our dream. A Russian expert refers to the legendary team in a beautiful and vast article entitled "The Two Cups of 'Ararat'". He speaks about how our team playing "open football" displayed itself in the stadium. "One needs not only skills to play "open football", but courage as well. These two should be characteristic not only to the players, but to the coaches as well."

In those days the Soviet and international media published a number of astonishing articles and materials dedicated to the triumphs of "Ararat". Lebanese "La Avyu Leban" periodical dedicated an entire page to the matches of "Ararat". In an article entitled "'Ararat' Charms the Lebanese-Armenians” states that it’s not only the Armenians in the USSR, who follow "Ararat's" matches, but the whole Armenians living throughout America, Asia, and Europe.

The "Armenpress" photographer Felix Arustamyan, who used to work for “The Armenian Athlete” in those days, compared the triumph of "Ararat" with the times, when Tigran Petrosyan was declared the chess champion of the world.

Varvara Hayrapetyan listed the "biography" of "Ararat 73"