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Shkruar nga Eduard Zaloshnja
But do the football successes of the Kosovo National Team matter now, compared to the successes of the Red and Black National Team?
Until 1990, only footballers who played in the Albanian championship played in the Red and Black National Team. For obvious reasons at the time….
After 1990, the Red and Black National Team featured players from all over Albania, who played in various European championships. And eventually, those players managed to take the Red and Black National Team to the 2006 European Championship tournament (even if the Irish goalposts had been more generous to the German players' shots, we could have indirectly qualified for the above, as third in our qualifying group).
The Red and Black National Team (which had previously experienced dramatic scenes in the Belgrade stadium) constituted the greatest success of national unification, at least on the football field. But a significant event (not on the football field, but on the geopolitical one) was later marked by the entry of the Kosovo National Team into official FIFA competitions.
While Kosovo is still not officially recognized by the UN as sovereign, it is recognized as such in FIFA football competitions. And this is an event of extraordinary geopolitical importance.
But do the football successes of the Kosovo National Team matter now, compared to the successes of the Red and Black National Team? For me and the vast majority of Red and Black fans (wherever they are), I believe not at all.
We, the Red and Black fans, would like to have Rahman, Muriqi, Rashica, Zhergovë, Vojvoda, and every Albanian talent, wherever they were born and wherever they play football, in the Red and Black National Team. The Red and Black National Team is currently the only symbol that represents national unity, 112 years after the official division of Albanian lands at the Ambassadors' Conference in London...
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