Pagramian Sports Club

Pagramian football team
Match between Pagramian and Tadamon Sour football teams in 1956, held in El-Buss, Tyre. Tadamon won 3-1.[1]

Pagramian Sports Club was a Lebanese Armenian sports and cultural organization.[1][2][3][4][5] It was linked to the Lebanese Communist Party.[2]

As of 1949 Pagramian took part in the Beirut Committee of football clubs.[6]

Ahead of the 1957 parliamentary election, Pagramian Sports Club and other anti-Tashnag (anti-ARF) Lebanese Armenian sports associations like (Homenmen (affiliated with the Hunchaks), Antranik (affiliated with the Ramgavars), Veradznunt, Tekeyan-Baykar) organized a 'Pan-Armenian Festival' on April 22, 1957 under the patronship of Archbishop Khat. Some 2,000 athletes took part in the event, which had some 25,000 spectators at Beirut Municipal Stadium.[2] On June 10, 1957, the election day itself, three persons (Krikor Vrtanessian, Bedris Kdjoyan and Levon Kdjoyan) were shot dead in front of the Pagramian club offices. The club blamed the Tashnag party for the killings.[2]

The Pagramian Sports Club was shut down by the Lebanese government in 1960.[2]

In 1969 the Ararad Sports Association was set up to fill the void after the closing of Pagramian Sports Club.[7]

References

  1. 1 2 yasoursport.org. من الذاكرة:ملعب البص
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Messerlian, Zaven. Armenian Participation in the Lebanese Legislative Elections 1934-2009. Beirut: Haigazian University Press, 2014. pp. 28, 138, 153-154
  3. ↑ Nadi Shabab al-Sahel.فخري علامة ... اللاعب والقدوة
  4. ↑ Sada Dahieh. عفيف حمدان... دينامو الحركة الكروية في الضاحية
  5. ↑ Al-Akhbar. الحارس الطائر سميح شاتيلا شاهد على عصر الكرة
  6. ↑ Al-Mustaqbal. وأخبار الزمن الجميل
  7. ↑ "About Us". Ararad Sports Association. Archived from the original on June 4, 2012.
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