Albanian National Team [General topic]

[Aurora Bulkualis]

Serbs (M) have average height 1.80 while Albanians (M) have 1.74.

Slavs are tall..

https://worldpopulationreview.com/count ... by-country

And I showed you another one where they were the same height and Kosovars are listed above Serbs in height. You gotta let go or this height fetish.

[Aurora Bulkualis]

This is bullshit, lol. Albania doesn't even produce the Tares, Muratis, Vatas and Bogdanis anymore. The yugoslavs have better clubs and academies. Even Kosova has already surpassed Albania, while being for only 8 years a UEFA and FIFA member. Albania literally produces nothing noteworthy in sports, it has nothing to do with DNA.

then how do you explain that Kosovo Albanians have 0 tradition in sport compared to their Ex-Yugo counterparts? All lived under the same system but only the Slavs excelled at sports. Where are the Kosovar NBA players? Volleyball? Handball? Tennis? Waterpolo?

Kosovo and Macedonia were the poorest provinces. Belgrade and Zagreb got most of the benefits. Not that hard to understand. 90% of Croatia's talents come from DZ academy.

And it's amazing none of this awesome DNA didnt hit Bosnia or any of the poorer provinces.

[Aurora Bulkualis]

What's funny is the best Yugo player was Luka Modric who's a midget. And he would've never succeeded in that rugby style Albanian superliga because these shitty leagues always go after false signals. They want guys like Lila who are construction workers in disguise.

[Redijupison]

This is bullshit, lol. Albania doesn't even produce the Tares, Muratis, Vatas and Bogdanis anymore. The yugoslavs have better clubs and academies. Even Kosova has already surpassed Albania, while being for only 8 years a UEFA and FIFA member. Albania literally produces nothing noteworthy in sports, it has nothing to do with DNA.

then how do you explain that Kosovo Albanians have 0 tradition in sport compared to their Ex-Yugo counterparts? All lived under the same system but only the Slavs excelled at sports. Where are the Kosovar NBA players? Volleyball? Handball? Tennis? Waterpolo?

Albanians in ex-yugo were discriminated, dude. That's why they only excelled in cheap individual sports like boxing, wrestling and judo. Even with being discriminated, there's still more tradition in Basketball, Volleyball and Handball in Kosovë right now compared to Albania where these sports are approached more like hobbies .

[Dallku]

Kosovo and Macedonia were the poorest provinces. Belgrade and Zagreb got most of the benefits. Not that hard to understand. 90% of Croatia's talents come from DZ academy.

And it's amazing none of this awesome DNA didnt hit Bosnia or any of the poorer provinces.

They all lived under the same pro-sport socialist system.

and the DNA absolutely hit Bosnia. That's what contradicts what you're saying. Bosniaks have always produced top tier athletes including a bunch of NBA players. Slavic Macedonians too.

Kosovo has produced some unicorns like Fadil Vokrri (notice poverty didn't effect him) but it's ridiculous low compared to their neighbors.

[Dallku]

Albanians in ex-yugo were discriminated, dude. That's why they only excelled in cheap individual sports like boxing, wrestling and judo. Even with being discriminated, there's still more tradition in Basketball, Volleyball and Handball in Kosovë right now compared to Albania where these sports are approached more like hobbies .

in Albania short men sports like weightlifting, wrestling have been popular.

Albanian people in general have struggled with tall men sports or ones that require high athleticism and endurance. Let's be honest and call it how it is.

[Aurora Bulkualis]

Kosovo and Macedonia were the poorest provinces. Belgrade and Zagreb got most of the benefits. Not that hard to understand. 90% of Croatia's talents come from DZ academy.

And it's amazing none of this awesome DNA didnt hit Bosnia or any of the poorer provinces.

They all lived under the same pro-sport socialist system.

and the DNA absolutely hit Bosnia. That's what contradicts what you're saying. Bosniaks have always produced top tier athletes including a bunch of NBA players. Slavic Macedonians too.

Kosovo has produced some unicorns like Fadil Vokrri (notice poverty didn't effect him) but it's ridiculous low compared to their neighbors.

Bosnia is shittier than us in football. Get real. Same as Macedonia. The only thing I'll give props to Macedonians is mentality. As for sports, the difference is that a lot of poor young men go into all sorts of sports in ex-Yugoslavia. Look at their olympics rosters.

Albanian poor young men just want to sell weed and coke and become rich in 6 months, so they can post it in on Instagram. But these are cultural differences.

[Redijupison]

This is bullshit, lol. Albania doesn't even produce the Tares, Muratis, Vatas and Bogdanis anymore. The yugoslavs have better clubs and academies. Even Kosova has already surpassed Albania, while being for only 8 years a UEFA and FIFA member. Albania literally produces nothing noteworthy in sports, it has nothing to do with DNA.

then how do you explain that Kosovo Albanians have 0 tradition in sport compared to their Ex-Yugo counterparts? All lived under the same system but only the Slavs excelled at sports. Where are the Kosovar NBA players? Volleyball? Handball? Tennis? Waterpolo?

Kosovo and Macedonia were the poorest provinces. Belgrade and Zagreb got most of the benefits. Not that hard to understand. 90% of Croatia's talents come from DZ academy.

And it's amazing none of this awesome DNA didnt hit Bosnia or any of the poorer provinces.

It's the same with every ex-communist country, they have 1-2 traditional clubs through which they bring the most talent. A club like Dinamo Tiblisi used to be a top club in Soviet Union's top league. Albania on the other hand wanted to erase everything that reminded them of communist Albania...

[Aurora Bulkualis]

It's the same with every ex-communist country, they have 1-2 traditional clubs through which they bring the most talent. A club like Dinamo Tiblisi used to be a top club in Soviet Union's top league. Albania on the other hand wanted to erase everything that reminded them of communist Albania...

The example I used is imagine if Barcelona and Espanyol broke off and made the Catalan league. The Catalans would have a super club, but that club only existed because it was part of the Spanish league...

Same for these places like Belgrade, Zagreb. They were part of a country with 10x the population of Albania. They would never be that big if they weren't a part of a large nation like Yugoslavia.

Instead our top clubs are clubs like Skenderbeu that get banned for match fixing.

[Redijupison]

Albanians in ex-yugo were discriminated, dude. That's why they only excelled in cheap individual sports like boxing, wrestling and judo. Even with being discriminated, there's still more tradition in Basketball, Volleyball and Handball in Kosovë right now compared to Albania where these sports are approached more like hobbies .

in Albania short men sports like weightlifting, wrestling have been popular.

Albanian people in general have struggled with tall men sports or ones that require high athleticism and endurance. Let's be honest and call it how it is.

The sports you mention are cheap to practice, but do you see the pattern? Albania isn't anymore successful in weightlifting or wrestling and isn't producing the talent in football that it used to produce in the 90s. Think how good Albania would be in football right now if it still produced players like Rrakli, Lala, Skela, Murati, Tare, Bogdani, Vata mixed with the talent coming from the diaspora?!