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Together with the coach Silvio Mendes Junior, or Silvinho for short, in this adventure of the "Euro 2024" qualifiers, there is the Argentinian Pablo Zabaleta, the former captain of his representative and Manchester City.
On the eve of the next two matches with Moldova and the Faroe Islands, he tells "Top Channel" about this new stage of his career with the Reds and Blacks.
" The level of the championship in Albania is good, of course it can be improved in the coming years, as I have read that there will be changes in the infrastructure, new stadiums will be built and this will bring new players. As for the national team, when we came here we learned that the team had a new generation in the representative team who now all play for big teams like in Italy, England, Spain and so on. Based on this, we realized that these players of this level are able and should dream of something big, and this is one of the reasons we came here ".
As an Argentine, do you feel like a world champion, since your country already has this status?
" When your country wins the World Cup, it is something extraordinary. I was in Qatar for the whole month and as an Argentine I certainly feel very proud. As players I have a bitter experience in 2014, where we lost the final with Germany. I always tell the boys, when you play for your clubs, you play 38 or 40 games in a season with the national team it's only 8 games. You should know that when you play with the national team jersey, it is real football, organic football, because you play for the people, you play for your country, the country that raised you. There is nothing better than this. For a footballer, when he wears the jersey of the national team, it is something special, I have seen this in Albanian footballers. "
The next two games with Moldova and the Faroe Islands, we really need the points.
" Of course, yes, and we are working on that. First of all we have to think about Moldova. It will be our first game in our stadium and with our fans. There are two important messages, the first from our side we will work for 10 days to go to the match against Moldova in the best possible condition to win the match. Secondly, we need to create a very good atmosphere in the stadium. I know there will be many fans in the stadium. Home matches should have an atmosphere like the one in the Tirana-Partizani derby, where the fans dance, sing, and we will definitely ask for 3 points, we need them. Then we'll have to think about the Faroe Islands ."
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