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They are the pillars of that team of mixed languages and religions that has ceased to be Cinderella in European football.
The Albanian team is the reflection of that diaspora that shook the country in the last decade of the last century and the first of this century. In the list of those selected by Sylvinho for this European, the second of the Albanians after their debut in 2016, there are players born in nine countries: Albania (eight), Switzerland (five), Macedonia (three), Kosovo (three). , Germany (two), Greece (two) and one each in Italy, England and Spain. The Spanish case is that of Iván Balliu, Rayo's full-back. And there would be ten flags, because Kosovars were born before the declaration of Kosovo's independence in 2008.
The captain's armband of the Albanian national team belongs to Berat Djimsiti, the Atalanta player. He is one of those who came to Switzerland: Zurich, February 29, 1993. There he trained and grew up. He was in the youth team of the Swiss Federation, with whom he played matches from under-18 to under-21, but in 2015, Gianni di Biasi, the Italian coach who paved the way to lead Albania to Euro 2016, left him out.
Djimsiti changed his step and said yes to the country of his ancestors, whose roots were in Ternova te Madhe (Bujanoc, Serbia). From there, hundreds of Albanians had to flee due to threats of all kinds, not only from Serbian paramilitaries, because that region is known as the Medellin of the Balkans due to the dominance of the local mafia.
The best weapon of the Albanian team is Armando Broja. His birth certificate says he was born a few miles from London, in Slough, on September 10, 2001. His family ended up there after leaving Koplik, a town in northern Albania, on their way to the Montenegrin border.
At the age of 6, he signed up for Chelsea, where he grew up until 8 March 2020, when he made his first-team debut with four minutes remaining after coming on as a substitute for Giroud in a match against Everton. In 2019, he turned down the England U21 call-up and chose his parents' country.
These are the pillars of that team of mixed languages and religions that has ceased to be Cinderella in European football. /Adapt "Pamphlet" from " MARCA "
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