With memories of the golden years (80's) of the albanian football still fresh on her mind, Albania is now attempting to recreate its strong football legacy. As young players start making their names abroad, the future is looking bright for Albanian football!
MadMan wrote:We will unite under the EU umbrella, at least that's what out dear leader Edi Rama is saying to us. lol.
We worry too much at times I think about unity when we have bigger problems to fix in both states. Improving the lives of our people should be paramount now that the Serb occupation has been dealt with. Albanians are still emigrating en masse from both states and that's not a good sign.
As for KNT I think the best thing we can all do is to give it our full support instead of this infighting and make sure it gets stronger, since it's another representation of our people whether some people like it or not. So instead of boycotting its games like some our fans are doing they should get behind it and support it in red and black. Although I'm not sure how YEFA will react if the stadium is full of Albanian flags and colors. Would they be considered a political statement and lead to a ban of the red and black flags at Kosova's games? It'll be an interesting development.
MadMan wrote:We will unite under the EU umbrella, at least that's what out dear leader Edi Rama is saying to us. lol.
We worry too much at times I think about unity when we have bigger problems to fix in both states. Improving the lives of our people should be paramount now that the Serb occupation has been dealt with. Albanians are still emigrating en masse from both states and that's not a good sign.
True.
I'm going to speak solely for Kosova. I think our biggest challenges for now and the near future is going to be: corruption, serbs(will be here for a long time) and a certain backwards arabic culture.
Very late to this party but I predicted this long before. We will always find a way to fvck it all up and turn against each other. I really dont care who goes where as I rate all the Albanian pool equally. As in equally mediocre. Now we will have to endure more mediocrity with less competition as anyone who doesn't get a game will wanna switch or threaten to. I'm very happy for Kosova but still think that the whole point of acceptance was to help the youth in Kosova and encourage investment in sport. Not go for the quick fix mercenary route. Anyone who calls these players traitors is delusional. No Albanian player apart from Cana is patriotic in the clear sense of speaking. And all these going for Kosova are exactly the same. They are simply footballers mostly brainless and couldn't care less about patriotism. They say stuff to feed their social media but history speaks for itself.
My worries are obviously non sport related when it comes to Albanians but if I was to share my biggest worry in regards to this so called football issue, is not the "exodus" or whatever it's called, but the lack of unity if not complete lack of desire to cooperate from the 2 FA's and the sporting elite.
That's what will ruin us. As politically we all know our capabilities.
But I will end on a note of nostalgia of a notion that has warmed us all in recent years and my worry for its future " Kombetarja eshte e te gjitheve" Hope that will always be the case
Absolutely agree Plako. Couldn't be happier. Obviosly a bit folklorised and he intends it in an ironic bashing of our current youth and system of " democracy". But he is absolutely correct in saying that Kosova has more freedom than us.
You just can't get the diktatorship system out of us, while Kosova has experience in democracy.
We are regressing rapidly while Kosova is at least looking forward although not progressing.
But if I was to choose with optimism about the future it certainly wouldn't be Albania
Lol, this Blushi guy clearly doesn't know that much about Kosovë.
Especially this shows that:
'Gjatë kohës kur jetonin në Jugosllavi, kosovarët nuk kishin kaq shumë talente. Muzika, letërsia, sportet, piktura dhe futbolli i tyre ishte i prapambetur në krahasim me popujt e tjerë jugosllavë. Nuk kishin fituar asnjë medalje të artë, nuk kishin pothuajse asnjë futbollist të madh, nuk kishin muzikantë, piktorë apo shkrimtarë të shquar. Kuotat më të larta, mendimi i tyre kritik, i arriti duke shkruar esse për poetët dhe artin e Rilindjes Shqiptare'
In Yugoslavia the competition was bigger and harder. Imagine a state stretching from Slovenia to FYROM - That's almost all land mass between Austria and Greece. But still - in that tough competition - Albanians were quite successful in acting (not only Bekim Fehmiu), in sports (not only Aziz Salihu, Shaban Tërstena etc.), in music (not only Zana Nimani), in diplomacy (not only Ramadan Murmullaku, who even lead the UN Security Council.) This lack of historic knowledge is killing us. That goes for both Prishtina and Tirana.
Also, another thing which has been interesting to see these last couple of days has been people who've always been against bashkimi kombetare because they couldn't stand 'Kosovars', now using the 'it's not you, it's me'-argument for not wanting Albania to unite with Kosova. 'You Kosovars are way to good to mix with us Albanians who aren't up to your level', which means that they're against unification, not because they don't like 'Kosovars', but because Albanians aren't on their level.
The best way to push them away now seems to be to hail them. But this comes as no surprise. It's the same philoserbs this comes from. The same people who were alarming the general Albanian public about how terrible these 'Kosovars' were during the 90's.
Now that the borders almost aren't existing anymore and that our people from both sides can get to know eachother, and the evil-minded and prejudiced anti-national haters from Albania have lost their main tool of fear, they're playing another tune these days.
It's funny, music and literature in Kosovë was much better in earlier years, but during those times the "elites" of Tirana didn't give them their deserved respect. But this newfound "love" for 'Kosovar' music, literature etc. comes now. It comes now, especially after the news that some athletes from Kosova won't be representing the red and black flag. This has exited these anti-Kosovar people from the Londonian Albania which hate the thought of national unification. This sentiment doesn't come out of love for the other but because of the desire to push 'the other' away.
Kosova's independence wasn't against national unification. In fact it's an inevitable intermediate stage which was and still is necessary. But this political division didn't divide our people in terms of culture, economy etc. On the contrary Albanians now live more together than ever before, which shows that they weren't going to be divided by insults and rumours from the above mentioned anti-Kosovars back then, and we'll surely not be divided by hypocritical praises from the same people today. Truth is, that Albanians on both sides of the border are very alike. They have their goods, their bads, their problems and their advantages.
