 Switzerland hosts Champions League quarter-final draw March 15, 2013 - 16:28 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - The Spanish rivals Real Madrid and Barcelona and the German giants Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund avoided each other when the matchups were drawn for the Champions League quarterfinals on Friday, March 15 in Nyon, Switzerland, The New York Times reported. Real Madrid will host Turkey’s Galatasaray in the first leg of the quarterfinals, set for April 2-3, then travel to Istanbul for the return leg on April 9 or 10. Barcelona will travel to Paris St.-German in the first leg. P.S.G. employs the former Barcelona striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic, but the Catalans caught a break because he will be suspended for the first leg. Bayern Munich, a finalist last year, will face the Italian champion Juventus, and Dortmund will face the third Spanish club in the quarterfinals, Malaga. This is the first time in 17 years that there are no English clubs in the quarterfinals, though three of them, Chelsea, Tottenham and Newcastle, advanced to the quarters of the second-tier Europa League. Partner news  Top stories Norway will host Chess World Cup 2013 on August 10 - September 4, 2013, with 4 Armenian players to participate in. Armenian grandmaster Levon Aronian is currently 3rd with 4 points, Bulgaria’s Veselin Topalov is 7th with 3 points. European Individual Chess Championship ended in Polish town of Legnica, with 24 chess players winning World Cup qualifications. Gor Minasyan won silver medal, Andranik Karapetyan and Izabella Yalyan both won bronze at Junior World Championships in Lima.   Partner news |  Latest news Brad Pitt’s “World War Z” to open Moscow Film Fest  The fest will feature retrospectives of films by Bernardo Bertolucci and Costa Gavras, as well as a program devoted to Dutch cinema.Wrekin Hill picks up John Malkovich’s “Siberian Education” Based on the novel by Nicolai Lilin, the film is set in the ghetto of Soviet Russia and follows 2 boys who are members of a gang of exiled Siberians.Germans blame Merkel’s stance in eurozone crisis for Eurovision debacle Chancellor Angela Merkel is loathed in parts of Europe for her insisting on painful austerity measures in Greece, Spain and Italy.China’s PM visits India to settle boundary row, boost ties China says Li Keqiang choice of India for his first trip abroad shows the importance Beijing attaches to improving relations with New Delhi. |
