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Looks like they set another friendly before the Euros. It's against Ukraine in Italy on June 3rd. Another strong opponent which is good.

Yep an opponent who we shouldn't have a definite game plan such as defend non stop (Ausria) or all out attack (Luxemburg). Should be a mixed game.

This is where he should be trying the players he thinks will be in his first 11. I think the midfield trio should be set as Kaçe Xhaka Abrashi, but maybe he could test Memushaj instead of Abrashi.

Ukraine is not very famous but they lowkey have a hell of a team. Both of their wingers(Yarmolenko and Konoplyanka) are valued at 25 million € each on transfermarkt(I know but still). The rest of the squad is mostly made up of Shakhtar and Dynamo Kyiv players.

I'm sure we'll go full defense mode against a team like this. It's a good test to finally determine the starters vs the Swiss.

Pjetër wrote:

Plako wrote:

Pjetër wrote: My dad though speaks like a total Shkodran. Why did I have to be around my malok grandparents so much growing up.

awww dont worry man...just watch some albanian tv and you'll end up speaking a "clean" albanian, instead of kaltert you'll be able to say blue.

It's is of great unfortunate that you are being singled out as a malok from kosove.

I'm on the same boat as you, I go to sleep everyday hoping next morning I'll be a "qytetar" albanian instead of a malok kosovar. I would be able to speak the enver hoxhas letrar albanian. On top of it, having that sexy italian and greek influence.

lol at Kace.

I speak a little thick as well. My parents are both from Tropoje, specifically Bajram Curri which doesn't help but you can defo tell the difference between someone from Kosovo and very northern Albanians.

A little thickness in your accent doesn't hurt, the very southern accents are sometimes yuck! P

I think southerners speak in a feminine way. Their voices are very thin and it just seems feminine to me. I have this standard-bullshit, to be honest. I've been influenced by it myself, as that's what everyone speaks in TV nowadays. I love how the old schoolers speak gegnisht, would have loved to speak it that way.

Migjeni wrote:I think southerners speak in a feminine way. Their voices are very thin and it just seems feminine to me. I have this standard-bullshit, to be honest. I've been influenced by it myself, as that's what everyone speaks in TV nowadays. I love how the old schoolers speak gegnisht, would have loved to speak it that way.

Yeah Armando Sadiku is a perfect example, when I hear him speak I just cringe man. Do you have to have that thin a voice?

Erik wrote:Yeah Armando Sadiku is a perfect example, when I hear him speak I just cringe man. Do you have to have that thin a voice?

That's exactly what I mean. I don't know whether it's the dialect or what the reason is, but it seems to be a specific case with the southern part of our country.

Migjeni wrote:I think southerners speak in a feminine way. Their voices are very thin and it just seems feminine to me. I have this standard-bullshit, to be honest. I've been influenced by it myself, as that's what everyone speaks in TV nowadays. I love how the old schoolers speak gegnisht, would have loved to speak it that way.

I was honestly about to say the same before but I didn't want to sound like an ass. Maybe the Northern Albanians and former Yugo Albanians have more testosterone naturally because of their environments? All my family are loud(I can hear them from a mile away) and the men sound like they about to fight someone as they all have deep thick voices.

Erik wrote:

Migjeni wrote:I think southerners speak in a feminine way. Their voices are very thin and it just seems feminine to me. I have this standard-bullshit, to be honest. I've been influenced by it myself, as that's what everyone speaks in TV nowadays. I love how the old schoolers speak gegnisht, would have loved to speak it that way.

Yeah Armando Sadiku is a perfect example, when I hear him speak I just cringe man. Do you have to have that thin a voice?

Sadiku is from Elbasan, not a Southerner by definition. Southerners from Tepelene/Vlore have some of the thickest accents in all of Albania. The more civilized the people (Korce, Gjirokaster, Berat) the softest the accent is.