Albanian Football Forum

Pjetër wrote:Can someone explain the details of this agreement to me? What does the Albanian FA get in return? Does the Macedonian FA not go after all those bright Macedonian prospects in Albania? Kind of seems like a one sided deal if you ask me.

There is no actual agreement in place just an understanding. It is driven by the fragile state of the Macedonians nation state and the appearance of us undermining their "independence" if we were to poach Albanian players born there. Most importantly imo it's the lack of any good Albanian talents coming out of Macedonia that has driven our policy so far. Our talents from Kosova have been plentiful so there was no real need so far. That will change imo once Kosova fields its own team. So I guess that's the silver lining.


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Plako wrote:

Simboli i Diellit wrote:Albania fears impact of Kosovo footbal team : http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article ... 02-10-2016

The worst case scenario FSHF should start poaching Albanians from Macedonia who previously seemed to have been off limits due to an agreement between the two FAs.

Can someone explain the details of this agreement to me? What does the Albanian FA get in return? Does the Macedonian FA not go after all those bright Macedonian prospects in Albania? Kind of seems like a one sided deal if you ask me.

Simboli i Diellit wrote:Albania fears impact of Kosovo footbal team : http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article ... 02-10-2016

The best solution would be to have one national team and two different leagues so you'll have at least 8 teams every year participating in Europe.

The worst case scenario FSHF should start poaching Albanians from Macedonia who previously seemed to have been off limits due to an agreement between the two FAs.




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Albania fears impact of Kosovo footbal team : http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article ... 02-10-2016

Celina seems very committed to the Kosova team. Both he and his dad said he likes how he's the center piece for the Kosova NT. I'm sure we could atleast get him in the fold for the Euros but I don't think DB is even interested in these guys. He doesn't want to shake things up and more importantly he wants players with "experience". To him a guy like Zeneli is not experienced enough while Andi Lila, a bench player for a midtable Greek side, is a borderline starter. DB may have plans for these guys after the Euros but sometimes you can't play the waiting game for young talents whether they merit a call up or not.. You just got to do it.

Even though I've never seen Zeneli play I know you just have to call up him because if we don't then he'll commit to Sweden(i've said the same about Avdijaj 2 years ago). Not to mention there's a strong case that Rashica and Zeneli are better than any winger we currently have.

There's still too much nepotism in the NT for my liking. That's starting to change under GDB but it's still there.


BTW, What happened to other City prospect Sinan Bytqi? Looks like he just came back from a serious injury and last year he made some appearances in Holland before getting hurt. Might be a player for the 2018 campaign.

andi2410 wrote:Does anyone know if Celina is open to playing for Albania? I mean if he's getting some playing time at City at 19, must have potential no? I'm surprised not many people talk about him. Januzaj became such a big deal.

Celina is pretty talented but not Januzaj talent. Januzaj is a mega talent but his weak mentality/lack of motivation is getting the best of him. Even Dortmund's coach called him out saying that he has all the talent in the world but he's not motivated to earn his stripes. With that kind of father he has it's no surprise eh??

Celina is pretty decent but not sure if he's a Manchester City or a top club level talent. Need to see more of him .. Last I heard he was very committed to play for Kosovo. Not sure if he would accept Albania's callup but I doubt Norway is much of a threat.

andi2410 wrote:Hopefully these young guys don't commit to other national teams in the meantime because they get pissed off for being left out of the Euros (Celina for Kosovo/Norway, Zeneli for Sweden, Avdijaj for Germany etc).

At least Celina can't be called up for Euro as Norway is not.
Avdijaj has like 1% chances being called up with Germany
But i'm afraid Sweden calls-up Zeneli and Switzerland calls-up Tarashaj, Kamberi and Hadergjonaj.

Hopefully these young guys don't commit to other national teams in the meantime because they get pissed off for being left out of the Euros (Celina for Kosovo/Norway, Zeneli for Sweden, Avdijaj for Germany etc).

andi2410 wrote:Does anyone know if Celina is open to playing for Albania? I mean if he's getting some playing time at City at 19, must have potential no? I'm surprised not many people talk about him. Januzaj became such a big deal.

De Biasi mentioned him in an interview yesterday. He will get the players that qualified Albania and probably during next qualifiers Rashica, Manaj, Celina and co could have a shot.

Does anyone know if Celina is open to playing for Albania? I mean if he's getting some playing time at City at 19, must have potential no? I'm surprised not many people talk about him. Januzaj became such a big deal.