Italy v Albania 24/03/2017

[Dallku]

Any phone friendly streams for this game(preferably youtube live)? I'm gonna miss at least the first half.

[Simboli i Diellit]

That's what i thought aswell but it's Arjan Beqaj that has a greek wife while Fotaq had an Albanian one. Can't find any reference on web , probably she's a normal housewife.

Foto definitely has a Greek wife. I know for sure.

Lol at the nationalist footballers then

[Aurora Bulkualis]

Ndoj = A guy who struggled to get play time in Serie B and when he played he was the worst player on their team.

MAloku = Can't even sniff the bench at a Serie B level team in Pescara. When he played for the Albanian u-19 he was also shocking.

Bare = Definition of an amateur. Still plays in a kid's league and he was like a headless chicken when he played for the Albanian u-21

Bardhi = His ceiling is Albanian superliga starter. Right now he's in and out of the lineup for a superliga team.

Zeka = Who? No thanks.

They dont need to be world class players. If their peak is mid table Serie A players, thats padding our NT a lot.

[Dallku]

Their peak is Serie B/C/ Albanian superliga tho, that's the problem. If it was mid table Serie a I would be over the moon.

[Aurora Bulkualis]

Their peak is Serie B/C/ Albanian superliga tho, that's the problem. If it was mid table Serie a I would be over the moon.

Memushaj became captain of a bottom table Serie A team and he had it much worse than these guys. You never know.

[Plako]

There are some decent players in the youth set up. Players like Ndoj, Zeka, Strakosha(i'll count him as one), Leonardo Maloku, Bare come to mind. I'm confident Ndoj and Strakosha can be good players for the NT. The other guys (Zeka, Maloku, Bardhi, Bare) who knows. It's a damn shame we avoided Rashica and Avdijaj, we could have built a decent core around Hysaj, Ajeti, Berisha, Rashica, Ndoj, Avdijaj, Xhaka, Albian AJeti, etc.

I'll also add this and it's a worrying trend. FSHF are slowly switching back to their domestic policy and avoiding calling up players from the diaspora and from kosova. Probably because they want to be "politically correct" but I also think It's because former scrubs like Bushi and Jupi have a lot of power in the FSHF hierarchy. The former superliga rejects (Bushi, Jupi, soon to be Lila, etc) don't like the diaspora players as they have taken their spots in the NT and will continue taking the spots of the superliga rejects and the influx of players have exposed the superliga rejects for the true amateurs they are. They slowly want to revert back to the past where players like Bushi was celebrated as a lethal scorer LOL. It's why Lala was shown out the door because he spoke out on why Rashica was neglected for the amateurs we called up for the Euros.

Any other country in our position would be licking their chops at calling up the diaspora players but nope not us.

Some very good points but I think Strakosha is already there. He should be starting vs. Italy but I can understand why Hoxha may get the nod. Honestly I don't think Rashica and Avdijaj are huge losses yet but I could be wrong on that one.

Rashica would have been part of the team if he hadn't acted like such a brat after getting left out of the Euro squad. Typical Albanian katunar inatci. If anything Gjimshiti should bhave been more pissed than Rashica for getting left out yet he comported himself very well and now he starts for us. Let's not discount attitude as it is a big part of a player attributes so it cannot be dismissed so easily. Players like Besart Berisha, who I think would be our best attacker if he got called up, I think got left out because of attitude issues.

Also let's not slam FSHF for giving the nod to Superliga players as it is one of their jobs to develop local football so if you shun Superliga players in favor of foreign born players who only visit Albania on game days you are doing a great disservice to the league.

You are dead on though on the likes of Jupi/Bushi who only hurt the development of the local players and are only in it for the money. We're definitely not going anywhere with their ilk.

[Plako]

Lol at the nationalist footballers then

Ka me nacionalist se te qish nje Greke gjithe jeten

[artan]

Their peak is Serie B/C/ Albanian superliga tho, that's the problem. If it was mid table Serie a I would be over the moon.

Those players are 18-20 years old. It's really difficult for youngsters to get playing time for the first team let alone in a league like Italy. You know this too but I guess you want to argue for the sake of it so go ahead the floor is yours.

[Simboli i Diellit]

Lol at the nationalist footballers then

Ka me nacionalist se te qish nje Greke gjithe jeten

Ma mirë shqiptare se tingëllon ma bukur kur e shan nga nana

[ZenMaster]

I have a ticket for sale.