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Saturday, January 10, 2026, might have seemed like a normal workday for Igli Tare in the luxurious offices of Casa Milan, where the young architect of the Italian Rossoneri designs the future of one of the greatest clubs in the world, but hundreds of kilometers away from the splendor of San Siro, in the tension and sweat of a dramatic Cup challenge in Albania, his son, Etienne Tare, was finally writing his first real line of personal glory. In that 116th minute, when legs are heavy and lungs are burning, the tall 22-year-old passed the Skënderbeg defense to shake the net and give Tirana a 2-1 victory and qualification for the quarterfinals, a goal that weighs much more than just the statistics of a football match. For Etienne, this moment is a cry of liberation after years of living, playing and suffering under the giant shadow of his father, the legendary "tank" of the national team who once shattered the defenses of the Bundesliga and Serie A.
Etienne's story is the classic drama of a son who has to carry on his shoulders a legacy that has often turned into a curse, because while Igli at this age was a rising star in European football, Etienne was forced to chew the dust of the lower categories and the doubts of skeptics who saw him as simply "daddy's boy". His career, which began with expectations among the youth of Lazio, suffered its first major setback precisely because of his father's fame, because when the tensions between Igli Tare and president Claudio Lotito reached their peak and led to the legendary director's departure from Rome, the "collateral damage" was precisely Etienne. In that battle of egos and power in the corridors of Formello, the young man was left defenseless, without a contract renewal and forced to leave as a victim of a battle that was not his, thus beginning a painful "nomadic" journey through the lower categories of Austria, to Dukagjini in Kosovo and to the throne of Skanderbeg.
Fate wanted him to score today against that Skënderbeu where he didn't find space, showing that perhaps the goal instinct really flows in the blood of the Tare family, despite the fact that his style is less aggressive and his career much more modest than that of Igli. While his father today sits at the top of the Olympus of sports management at Milan, being one of the most influential figures in continental football, Etienne Tare chose to "make mud" in the Superiore to find his identity, away from his father's defense and today, with that goal in extra time he sent Tirana further, he proved that he can be the hero of the evening not because he bears the surname Tare, but because he knew how to be in the right place at the right moment. This goal may not make that Igli Tare the new one, but for the first time in a long time, it made the fans recognize his name, Etienne, more, without having to add his father's heavy surname. / Top Channel
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