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This Monday, Albania will seek the victory of the qualification for the 16 best in Europe.
In front will be Spain, one of the best teams in the world.
Since 1986, Albania and Spain have a long history of confrontations between them, and of course the balance leans in favor of the Spanish with a strong dominance of 8 wins to 0.
What stands out in our duels is the high number of goals scored by the Spanish in all these matches, while Albania has scored only 3 times in almost 40 years of duels.
At the end of the 80s, the differences were big, the Spanish adjusted the goal difference by beating us 9-0 or 5-0.
But of all the duels with Spain, 1 match received a lot of attention, it is about the duel on September 22 at the Qemal Stafa stadium, where Spain won 5 to 1, taking the top of the group. The differences were big on the field of play and one was a Spain that came with the cream of the players from Real Madrid and Barcelona.
If we were to go by the results of the time, it would be something normal, but in Albania, great controversies are ignited because a statement by the Vice President of the Spanish Federation, Juan Espino, on Kadena Ser radio ignites the environment, saying that the match was corrupted. According to him, a person related to the Albanian footballers has asked for 300 thousand Swiss francs so that Albania will score many goals.
As reported by the front page of the Sporti Albanian newspaper at that time, the Football Federation at that time made an announcement distancing itself from this story. Spain needed not only the victory but also the goals to adjust the goal average for the first place in the group and won the match 5-1.
The European press talked about that match for a long time and even FIFA started an investigation into the result, but there was no fact to suspect that there was corruption and that the Albanians had tolerated Spain scoring 5 goals.
After 30 years it remains a big mystery whether or not there was an attempted corruption for that match? Was that declaration just a war within the Spanish federation? Were Albanians being used in this story?
This was never revealed, but on that September afternoon what is known is that Spain got what it wanted in Qemal Stafa, the victory, the goals and the qualification in the world./ Top Arena
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