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Shkruar nga Mentor Nazarko
Challenging parallels… with the world. Patriotism vs. football success…
The German Der Spiegel calls the victory of the World Cup by the FRG in 1954 the real moment of the birth of the Federal Republic. The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung calls it the moment when Germany found itself again; the German political scientist Arthur Heinrich called it - liberation from the guilt complex; the beginning of a new national self-confidence. The historian Hans-Joachim Teichler called it a contribution to the normalization of the nation. While the film "The Miracle of Bern" calls it a moral, family and national renaissance. This is why the public perception of football is stronger than academic analysis. Surely Professor Artan Fuga, while in his informative style mocked those who on the screens connect football with patriotism after our defeat with Poland, had it simply and only with colleagues who attacked footballers with big and superficial terms - inflator and deflator.
The topic of sporting success linked to patriotism is challenging, and Kosovo is probably the best world subject today. For those who say what connection do we have with the losing Germany, let's go to the comments about the crowd of one million on the Champs Elysées, when France won the 1998 World Cup, where we will find even more enthusiastic terms: the philosopher Edgar Morine wrote - what ecstasy for the found republican unity; while someone else called July 14 the spontaneous Republic...
Kosovar sports have won in 10 years, compared to politics that is not winning
10 years ago, Fadil Vokrri, a football legend for Serbs and Albanians, managed to get Kosovo into UEFA and FIFA, perhaps (?) using a little bit of his acquaintance with the leaders of the Serbian federation who put up weak resistance. The Russians tried to use the precedent of Kosovo's membership to request the entry of the Russian republics in Georgia, etc. into UEFA, which was rejected. As a result of the diplomatic masterpiece of Vokrri and Adem - footballers, their young compatriots, could challenge Russia immediately in the group matches and reach the 2018 World Cup that was taking place there. Would the Kosovo footballers and fans get a visa? Yes, because in 2015, the former judoka Putin had accepted Driton Kuka and Majlinda Kelmendi despite their passports. Majlinda won in Kazan, Russia, raised the Kosovo flag there, and the Kosovo anthem was played in a hall where everyone present, including Putin, stood up.
10 years later, the sons of guest workers with the flag invented by the West, passed 100 places in the global football classification. They filled three representative teams with talent - Switzerland, Albania and Kosovo, and today they appear at the gates of the World Cup, this time in the USA. Serbia, the country that wanted to eradicate the Albanian race from its own country, with a famous football school in Europe, is swallowing the humiliation created by Manaj's goal in Serbia and the success of the Kosovars, complaining without dignity to UEFA why the Kosovars make the eagle sign in Slovakia. What happened in 10 years is truly a dream, created by a talented people who received freedom, but a long time and visa isolation: today this people wants repaid affirmation in the world's greatest showcase, football. This is the triumph of the individual of the Albanian race who, driven out by the Serbian invader, fleeing war or misrule, shines in Germanic systems, governed with discipline and vision. The talents of Kosovo, nurtured by their fathers, often simple workers, once products of the Yugoslav school of football, led by Swiss Germanic coaches, are giving a lesson not just to the abusers of their parents, but to all of Europe.
Kosovo today is the Cinderella of the continent in football. But while football and judo have come so far in 10 years or 27 years, based on the tradition of the former Yugoslavia, on the energy of independence and freedom, led by Germanic coaches, where has the policy of self-determination arrived, which ignores Western teachers? What has Kosovo's politics done in these ten years? It has neither helped itself nor... football. It continues to squander the Western gift of statehood, at first with the class of commanders who wanted to be eternal until some of them unjustly ended up in The Hague; and now with another group, captive to an amalgam of leftist theories, victimizing, challenging that West that created Kosovo, it continues to engage in a dialogue that never ends like this. He wants to share in the success of football with enthusiastic displays, emotional statuses on social networks, or awards, but he hasn't even built a stadium...
Kosovo football, as well as in Albania, has transcended politics.
He is giving her his own example, how to behave with the world, with the historical opponent, with non-recognizing countries (remember Muriqi, what a Kosovo bell is for Spain with his success).
Who defeated Serbia in peace: politics or football?
Who made Kosovo known in non-recognizing states - politics or football?
E ndiej që tani se filozofët antiglobalistë që komandojnë ushtri digitale në shërbim të qeverisë mbase do orientojnë prishtinocentrikisht pëlqimet popullore të rrjetit, që të përfitojnë duke treguar me përçmim Tiranën. Fqinjët xhelozë do investohen në fuqizimin e dallimeve brendashqiptare, duke i politizuar ato, e duke vijuar me armën qaramane të viktimizimit të pakicës serbe. Politika kosovare do tentojë të marrë merita që nuk i ka, dhe asaj thjesht duhet t’i thuhet: nëse do ndiqnit apo dhe bashkëpunonit me modelin e sportit, të Majlindës e Dritonit në xhudo, të Zhegrovës e Muriqit në futboll, apo të Rita Orës dhe Dua Lipës në muzikë, Kosova politike dhe shtetërore do t’i kishte punët më mirë. Politika as stadium të ri nuk bëri, megjithë premtimet gjigande për ta bërë afër fshatit të dikujt, apo indiferencës aktuale përballë rrënimit të stadiumit pre-pavarësi mes Prishtinës.
Paralelet e futbollit me futbollin.. dhe kombin
Nëpërmjet paraleles sport-politikë post pavarësi shkohet tek një pyetje tjetër e madhe: identitet i ri shtetëror apo kombëtar? A mund ta mbajë dhe si do ta administrojë shteti i ri, shoqëria e re, madhështinë e një suksesi eventual nëpërmjet kualifikimit në botërorin amerikan? Diçka mund të filtrohet si fillim prej fjalëve të presidentit të futbollit të Kosovës, Agim Ademi në një intervistë për Top Channel. Vetë futbollist i Prishtinës në vitet 70, ndihmës i Vokrrit të madh, ndërmarrës gjithashtu me eksperiencë jetësore në Zvicër, Ademi ka dëftyer deri më tani modesti, urtësi dhe disiplinë të hekurt. Kurrë nuk i është kundërvënë publikisht Federatës së Shqipërisë, megjithëse nëna i ka marrë lojtarë.
Tani mund të ndodhë e anasjellta, ndaj Ademi, ora e të cilit ka ardhur fuqishëm, i bëri thirrje shqiptarëve të gjithë trojeve që të identifikohen me përfaqësuesen e Kosovës. Ka përzgjedhur mençurisht trajnerë zviceranë gjermanikë modestë, por të ngurtë që kanë treguar aftësi për të ujdisur karaktere të vështira lojtarësh (kujtoni Zhegrovën tek rezervat), apo eventualisht manaxherësh e drejtuesish klubesh. I ka mbijetuar me mjeshtëri presioneve të politikës që don ta kontrollojë dhe që sot vetëm hesht para suksesit të Ademit, duke dashur të përfitojë prej energjisë që krijon suksesi i një populli të vogël në një garë botërore miliarda shikuesish.
Kosovar football has fostered a strong sense of collective belonging, which could be the powerful beginning of a new national feeling. I am not referring to the quarrels on social networks similar to those between the Lazio and the Roma, that we Kosovars know better than you in Albania how to play football, etc., etc. Nor do I expect that, like Mandela, we will have Serbian players in the Kosovo national team, because the Serbs led by Belgrade will not accept this team as theirs. I do expect, however, that this differentiating success somewhere in parts of the nation, but also the conception of a new identity, may be joined by internal Kosovar opinion engineers who want to ride it, because it resembles themselves as modern-day Renaissance men. Apologists for the Kosovar nation as a political project will necessarily find superficial food to feed the crowds on social networks.
So football is not just football: Kosovo won the war in 1999, with its own blood and NATO weapons, so it is not like Germany in 1954, which lost the Second World War. If the losing Germany was reborn from football, what can the winning Kosovo achieve? If France in 1998, regained black-blanc-beur unity (multiethnicity), what will Kosovo produce politically and nationally?
Let's wait for the match against Turkey - hopefully the weather holds up well, saving the boys the mud of the former Yugoslav stadium - and see what the collective avalanche of reason, and irrationality, will gather ahead...
Nuk mund te shpreheni ne Shqipen tone te hijshme, DO ZOTI, por llapni ishallah. Pse!?