The national team's news on Rama's podcast: We will go to Germany to show the world how strong we are as a team and as a people

2023-11-25 09:51:00Politikë SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

The national team's news on Rama's podcast: We will go to Germany to

Today, invited to the podcast "Speech of Prime Minister Edi Rama were the boys of our National Team after the historic achievement, which qualified Albania for the 2024 European Championship..

Guests were Berat Gjimshiti, Elseid Hysaj, Mario Mitaj, Frederik Veseli, Myrto Uzuni, Elhan Kastrati , who told about the long journey to the result they achieved, changing the history of Albanian football. The boys showed what has influenced this incredible success, starting with coach Sylvihno. With the ticket already booked for Germany, the national team said that "it will show the world how strong this team is and how strong we are as a people".

Rama started the interview with Myrto Uzun, who asked him why Albania did not score a goal against the Faroe Islands, while the footballer said that he has left the goals for Euro2024.

Myrto Uzuni : I left the goals for the European. It was a bit difficult yesterday as a team like the Faroe Islands defended with a lot of strength in the defensive phase and it was difficult to break down as with the best teams on paper we play more open football, while the teams that are weaker on paper play a closed game, and it's very difficult to break into that area, normal.

Hysaj indicated that the result was a record-breaker, but as he said, Këmbëtarja has the potential for even more.

Elseid Hysaj: We broke records this time. We didn't even expect that we would reach a group like this, in first place with the qualification, yes, as you know, we are all here, some of us are missing, but we have shown that we have more strength, to do more , so we should be satisfied and aware that we can achieve even more than that.

Prime Minister Edi Rama : There in the stands with the president, we have that weakness on the left side of the defense, and I was telling him yesterday, that until yesterday in every game I was saying, "Oh well, how is it possible that this one doesn't lose a ball?" man? The ball comes to him and it's like he's on the beach, he doesn't have any emotions, he doesn't have... Yes, I had to wait for Faroet to lose some balls.

Mario Mitaj: Yes, it's true and last night I also made mistakes, but once in 5 matches there is nothing. Mistakes are made.

Prime Minister Edi Rama: It seems to me that you have emotions when you shouldn't and you don't have emotions when you should. What was that? You weren't fully focused or you didn't like Uzun there on the left, how was it?

Mario Mitaj: No, Uzuni was moving, but last night I was a little unfocused. I was thinking about the party after the match and...

Prime Minister Edi Rama: Gjimshit, you are already a veteran, can you be called a veteran?

Berat Gjimashiti: Yes, I believe so. Yes, I'm not the oldest in here. Veseli (Frederik Veseli) is older. Yes, I am a veteran too.

Prime Minister Edi Rama:   You wanted to share a bit of the pain of old age with Veseli...

Berat Gjimshiti: Yes, when you told me veteran, I also felt a little older, so...

Prime Minister Edi Rama: How many years have you been playing with the national team?

Berat Gjimshiti: Yes, since 2014, that is, 9 years.

Prime Minister Edi Rama: Were you also the other European?

Berat Gjimshiti: I was not in the European, but in the qualifications.

Prime Minister Edi Rama: So, in that group? Why didn't they take you to Europe, you were young then?

Berat Gjimshiti: Yes, there was a moment when I was, I played in Switzerland, 22 years old, I was young, then 21, 22..

Prime Minister Edi Rama: 22? Why is this 20 now?

Berat Gjimshiti: Another time now. I was from Zurich who went to Atalanta in Italy, so it was difficult to learn both the language and the tactics of Italian football and I had no matches, I didn't play at all, I only played in 3 matches in 6 months, then I came to the national team and for gathering before the European Championship and coach De Biasi decided then that I wasn't in shape and wouldn't take me, so I accepted it. The work continues, it moves forward and there is nothing else.

Prime Minister Edi Rama: What about there with Atalanta, then did you seal your personality?

Berat Gjimshiti: Yes, of course. At first I had difficulties because I was on loan for 1 year, two years, then I came back and of course the team was doing very well with the Champions League, Europa League or other things in the finals of the Italian Cup, it was doing very well and of course, if the team is doing well well and you will do well and it is also simpler.

Prime Minister Edi Rama: How much has the coach influenced that they say is a football professor, in the sense that he follows the players closely, teaches them...

Berat Gjimshiti: To me? It has affected a lot. It gave me incredible self-confidence so... At first I still had some difficulties, then when he saw that he had faith in me, I believe it was easier for me too, when he accepted that I am a player for that team, so I believe it influenced a lot, because I learned a lot from him both in terms of tactics and mentality. I believe it was very important for me as well.

Prime Minister Edi Rama:   You had a special kind of chance with two coaches, as they say, that I don't know closely, but they are very scrupulous about the growth of players.

Elseid Hysaj: Both are "sick", I believe for tactics. Very tiring, I believe, but I've been with only 1 coach for 8 years, and sometimes these Lazio players tell me, "How can you endure 8 years?" I tell him, yes, we have to be patient, it's been 2-3 years, it's been 3 years there and I know how many years we'll be doing, but it's normal that I believe that they are one of the 2-3 coaches in Italy who have changed many teams and game mentality. The problem is that you have a fan with another team..

Prime Minister Edi Rama: Well, you are a little difficult for me in this period, however, for the sake of the truth, I follow you and I am very happy. Since I follow these matches of the Italian championship for a while and I am very happy that you play, that you are appreciated. And you generally get good grades there at "La gazeta dello sport", so we are very happy with that, but in the meantime there is always an ever-increasing number of small Albanians who are training for the teams of ages in Europe, but in Italy especially you were an impressive number, about 15 thousand Albanian boys or generally born already from parents who went there earlier or who came later who are registered in the Italian football movement in the teams.

Elseid Hysaj: I believe that this is also the case, that many Albanians are playing in Serie A and in other championships and the people or the coaches, the presidents are believing in us that once it was really difficult for an Albanian to enter Italy. it was like extra community work, without papers. "We are taking a Brazilian before the Albanian, because they have always kept us as a small country. It's not like we've drawn a lot of players, so we've always had the same problems. But now we are really being heard and I am always listening to young Albanians coming out. "Where did this one come from"! But anyway they are growing really big and she is beautiful. For this, the young players in Europe, the young players who have arrived, help us.

Prime Minister Edi Rama: This has hindered the extra communitarians because it narrows the space for citizens who are outside the EU and in fact we have also had a conversation with the Italian government to change this - the federation, of course - but with the help of the government because there are two or three countries in Europe that have included Albanians in that group of communitarians, so they can play as many Albanians as they want, or that when they buy Albanian players, the purchasing space for extra communitarians is not narrowed, so I hope. France has this, Greece has it, I don't know if between Spain and Germany, I'm not sure, but it's important that this is possible and I hope we open this up and have more Albanian players who will then be in the teams . For example, in Lecja there is Ramadani and that other boy, and because they are extra-community, they cannot all play at the same time.

Elseid Hysaj: Indeed, it is a problem that no more than three players are allowed to play. Community extras are not allowed on the field.

Prime Minister Edi Rama: Yes, there is the Brazilian, there is the Uruguayan, there is the other...

Elseid Hysaj: It's a big problem. Yes, all young people have two passports, so that helps. For example, when I play, I am no longer called an extra-community member than when I ran away, I ran away as a child and got Italian documents, so I am not called an extra-community member. I have been in Italy for 13 years, I was out of Italy for 6 months, the papers can be burned, I return extra community again.

Prime Minister Edi Rama: Italians do not have dual citizenship.

Elseid Hysaj: Yes, I can take it because I also have an Italian wife, but I haven't taken it yet, I have an Albanian passport

Prime Minister Edi Rama: You got it because you were too lazy to do the paperwork. What is our fault for this point? Did you get the Italian passport or not?

Berat Gjimshiti: No, because I'm Swiss, that's why.

Elseid Hysaj: Uzuni is Spanish.

Prime Minister Edi Rama: Uzuni is Spanish with Hungarian origins. Vesel, you have followed the national team for a long time.

Frederik Veseli: It's been 8 years, more precisely on November 15 and I had my birthday on the 20th, but it's been many years, yes. 8 years are not a few years in a football player's career.

Prime Minister Edi Rama: Erdis, who has followed him since that time, what changes do you see between before and now with the new coaches and the new group?

Frederik Veseli: Yes, actually I was in the European, but I did not qualify. Berati did everything and I took his place. The coach selected me. And I wanted to say before Berat that every time this conversation comes up, it seems like there is an elephant in the room for me, but the fact is that football has trends and changes a lot, I also say for those Albanians who have a quota in Europe. There have been many changes and we have had some very difficult moments. I remember when we lost with Luxembourg, for example, which was not accepted by anyone. Now is a very beautiful moment and I think we should use this moment, move forward, not take one step forward and take two steps back. That we got the qualification and normally we have to go to Germany to show ourselves, to show the whole world that we are really strong as a team, as a people and as Albanian fans, I remember in France it was extraordinary . All my friends have praised the typhoon of the Albanians in France, and I believe there is a lot to be done in Germany as well. And our job is to be like a mirror, a typhoon of the Albanians on the field, to give back with good performances and after the European Championship to move forward and not turn back.

Prime Minister Edi Rama: I am convinced that it will be more than in France. In Germany there are more. More than they are from Kosovo and Albania and Macedonia. There are a lot of them and they can't wait to book their tickets as soon as the bands are released. The presence in the stadiums will be very red and black. I am convinced of this. We lost the first goalkeeper, we lost the second goalkeeper, we got the third goalkeeper. What's it like training with all of them?

Elhan Kastrati : I have been part of the national team for two years and having Berisha and Strakosha, two goalkeepers with experience, helps you grow. For me, it is a very important showcase that the experience that Berisha and Strakosha have, I want to take from them and grow more in the football that I do here in the National Team.

Prime Minister Edi Rama : Does this increase?

Berat Gjimshiti: Of course, I believe that he has shown his values, so he was also called up to the national team, so...

Prime Minister Edi Rama: Don't do me diplomacy

Berat Gjimshiti : He received the shots so that....

Prime Minister Edi Rama: If you have this behind you, are you calm or are you terrified?

Berat Gjimshiti: Of course, I have had it so far... so I am very well.

Elseid Hysaj: Sometimes these goalkeepers put gloves without hands inside

Prime Minister Edi Rama: That this foot game for goalkeepers has now become...

Elhan Kastrati: It is very important these days, many coaches are looking for it as the main thing, but in my opinion the coach should first wait and then be good with his feet.

Prime Minister Edi Rama: Here is the answer.

Prime Minister Edi Rama: Do you play with Lokomotiv Moscow? Who took you there or did they take you "come on, we are taking him to a place because we have nowhere to take him".

Mario Mitaj: I wanted to leave Greece because I didn't play and abroad was the only hope I had, they had the opportunity to buy me.

Prime Minister Edi Rama: How did you fare before, when you went to Greece or were you born there?

Mario Mitaj: I was born and raised in Greece

Prime Minister Edi Rama : So the parents were ahead.

Mario Mitaj: Yes, and I have lived all my life in Greece.

Prime Minister Edi Rama: Where?

Mario Mitaj: In Athens. Then I continued with a small team. When I was 11 years old I took the exams and they accepted me. Then with age I became in the first team. I was in the first team for two years.

Prime Minister Edi Rama: How old were you?

Mario Mitaj: I signed my first contract when I was 17 years old. The first year I played 13 games, a big thing for me. The second year the coaches changed, I didn't play much, I was with the second team. The national team has helped me a lot, it has increased my values. In the third year, I fled to Russia.

Prime Minister Edi Rama: How is the championship there?

Mario Mitaj: Very strong. There are many strong teams. Before the war, it was the 6th strongest championship in the world. This is a very strong championship.

Prime Minister Edi Rama: Even the seasons are different now. That is, now the winter period is a break.

Mario Mitaj: They have almost a month off, in January is the preparatory phase and in March the championship continues.

Prime Minister Edi Rama : Uzuni, you with Granada?

Myrto Uzuni: We have no rest at all.

Prime Minister Edi Rama: Are you beach-football, beach-football?

Myrto Uzuni: We only have 5 days in the winter holidays as the championship is very intense, both in Italy and in Spain. There are not many holidays. Vacations are in summer.

Elseid Hysaj: We don't even have 5 days.

Myrto Uzuni: We don't even have a day this year and I think that on the 1st it seems to me that we are caught playing. January 1 or December 31.

Prime Minister Edi Rama: How will you manage for New Year's Eve or will you sleep?

Myrto Uzuni: I will be on the field.

Prime Minister Edi Rama: Now I want to ask you something about this because I have the impression that the atmosphere inside the National Team is very good, as an atmosphere I'm talking about the group, but beyond the atmosphere, that you had several coaches in the National Team, what has changed in method of training, of communication, of the way the game is required because really, it is something very pleasant to see the National Team because, for the first time, it is no longer that horror "The 80th minute is approaching and the goal came" to come out with head down from the stadium. It was terrible, it was so terrible that I decided at one point and said "I don't come to the stadium anymore because it has become terrible", and I didn't go. In general, I did not go, despite the fact that the President said "Come on, come on". Then when I watched the game on TV in Poland that we beat by a goal there that could have been avoided, it made a much better impression on me and I said "wow, these guys play football anyway"?

Elseid Hysaj: It has changed a lot because I have always said, if a team wins, it gains self-confidence, it gains security, and I believe this has been one of the strongest points we have in this National Team. Even the arrival of the new coach is very positive, it gives you self-confidence, makes you believe that you are a strong player and can do more than other times. As you also said, you came to the stadium and left in the 70th minute, but we had this headache from the first minute because it wasn't going well in those years that I really believe were the worst years we've ever had, in the National Team and ourselves. People didn't like us, not even our family members at one point. The arrival of the new coach, the positivity that the coach has given us and the confidence of all the players has made us grow and we, after Poland, when we played there, we were all talking to each other that we can really do it this year because we saw that we know how to play, we have quality, we have players, if it wasn't one, the other one comes in who gives him a hand and is probably even better than the other one who was on the field and I believe that this was the strongest point ours that has changed.

Myrto Uzuni: It is true; there is more competition now and if one is not on his day, he can be replaced by another without a problem plus how the coach analyzes the matches, the strengths and weaknesses of the opponent, but as Hysaj said, when you win the atmosphere changes , you are happier.

Frederik Veseli: I believe it is also an aspect that is not underestimated, that is, we have been in a new training camp, every day when they go to training we are happy, it is a good field and these conditions as players make you give more as a group now we are in Tirana, family members come to see us, they all sit together at the bar, there are also some fans who ask for photos of us, some ask for our signatures and I believe this is an aspect that pushes us even more to be together, we meet them and each other's families and every day we hurry to go to the field to do training, someone stays even longer to do therapy, someone comes earlier with a van and these little things make the difference because I believe that the details are always very important important to make a difference. From the moment we came here something changed and I believe this cannot be underestimated.

Prime Minister Edi Rama: Now we plan to build the hotel there because you have the fields at the new Federation which has become a very beautiful building, that complex is also taking shape, but there are two or three other elements that need to be completed and a from the elements is the hotel, the hotel for the national team so that everything is complete inside and out so that there is no movement from training to the hotel. Even for what you say, for the family atmosphere that is created, but also normally as serious national teams like you are now, a very serious national team that deserves all the attention and all the support. Jimshiti, what about you, what has brought change...

Berat Gjimshiti: The guys said the most important things so I believe we attached to these, but of course, as they said, victories and all these things give the greatest self-confidence, I believe victories are the most important thing, happiness and I believe as a group , the group makes the difference. I say this edition because I believe that in the 9 years I've been here, I haven't seen a group that stays together so much, that feel good with each other. Before there were groups, we were a group, but it was not so close and I believe, Veseli also said, a very good aspect, when other family members come, for example my parents come, the children come over and meet the family members mine and they say "How kind these guys are". Therefore, I believe that it is that very good and very beautiful thing that takes us forward.

Prime Minister Edi Rama: I am, in fact, very impressed by the coaches in the sense that I had in a conversation here, in the sense of their work method. For example, when they told me that they watch all your matches that you play every Sunday in the championships from Serie A, which is the easiest, so to speak, to the championships that are further away, and then they discuss with you certain details, moments of certain activities there, then working with the videos and meanwhile the president is also very impressed by their work that opens the door of the Federation and closes the door of the Federation, in the sense that they are there around the clock, analyzing the videos and communicating with you.

Elseid Hysaj: It is, as everyone knows, if you don't work hard, you won't get anywhere. So, they have to work as a coach, as we have all the boys...

Prime Minister Edi Rama: For me, who is not from the field, I can say that there are 10 million coaches in Albania, or more precisely, there are 10 million coaches among the Albanians, but I do not include them... I have admitted to myself that I do not belong to the 10 million coaches so I don't understand this job, in the technical sense. I mean, I'm not like... who says "Hey don't give, give and take". Or like everyone else to sit in the stands, because you have the good fortune to be in the field, but to sit in the stands and see, you sometimes hear a voice from far away "Why not, give it there, yes do it, why did you shoot it like that" but because I really like sports, in terms of strategy, in terms of team organization, in terms of that psychological battle that takes place before the match, between the players, between the coaches, with the communication back and forth and I try to learn from these and really, I really liked the way they show that work and how they work with you and how they give the main importance to what you all say here, that if you don't create the sense of family and belonging that everyone together we are part of a family and here is the common interest of the family, it's not just "Uzuni scored the goal, Uzuni was happy, but the rest of us lost" but in the meantime, it doesn't matter, the team matters. In the meantime, I was impressed by something else, a beautiful impression, that is, when the match ended, when you went out there, a significant part of you were with reeds on your arm, it was a very beautiful sight. How is family life not for you, but for the other half, for the better half, for the wives. How much time do you have to spend with families, children?

Berat Gjimshiti: To tell the truth, I have a lot of respect for my wife because especially, I'm saying, I apologize for believing that in my aspect, even Hysaj can speak, because the others are childless. That we are a lot with the Europa League, Champions League, so we are every two days in hotels. And I believe it is very important to have another part, like the wife, to cope with this, because it is a lot of time alone. And when we come back, we are in training for 5-6 hours, then we come back and we don't have that much time to deal with the children.

Prime Minister Edi Rama: I have the impression that, because I know a little about myself, I have the impression even when you are, even when you are at home, mentally that is, you are not completely, because the ball keeps spinning in my head, I have the impression.

Elseid Hysaj: It is. As Gjimshiti said, it is a problem to be honest. That I've had three children so it's a bit more of a mess to find a time. Even as you said, when you go home and how you find it, even when you come back after 5 hours, sometimes we have to come back at three in the night, four in the morning, and you have to ring the phone and say: - My wife opened the door for me when I came. They sleep sleep.

Prime Minister Edi Rama: Yes, you don't have a key.

Elseid Hysaj: I don't carry keys, I have a wife. Even when I get home after training to hang out with the kids, I start thinking about the next game you have to play. Because actually when you go home or boss any match on TV of any other team. You always have a part of football. Plus my son, now that he is 7 years old, has become an unprecedented fan. I have him as a second trainer at home when I go. Why didn't you score? Why did he play badly? Why did he play well? What did you do? And I have to start by explaining to him everything that can happen, what can't happen. Then I move on to the woman. So there are things that are also nice to have something when you go home after training, or if you're bored. I have had moments that, in fact, I have moments in football that I have not always had parties. Always when you have someone to talk to at home, such as family, wife, children or something, it removes that boredom you have and gives you the positivity that you say: - Ok, life is like this, you have to pass this stage as soon as possible, because always bad phases, the main thing is to get over them as soon as possible. Even though it's bad, you have to go through it, because otherwise it takes too long and it becomes really difficult afterwards.

Prime Minister Edi Rama: Now, finally, I want to ask you about your preferences. Uzu, who do you prefer to have in the group? Who do you love the most? Who do you want to score?

Myrto Uzuni:  To be honest with England, because we played against England and I had an opportunity and I wasted it. And it has been one of my moments.

Prime Minister Edi Rama : Don't let England lose to us so that you score a goal and then we eat three more. Tell me who you want in the group? There are 4, the groups are with 4 teams?

Myrto Uzuni: To be honest, I would like Portugal in the group because...

Prime Minister Edi Rama: Yes, Portugal, then.

Myrto Uzuni: Then three weaker ones.

Prime Minister Edi Rama: Yes, tell me

Myrto Uzuni: If we take Portugal, I'm entering. I would also like Italy to be honest, to play against Italy as well.

Elseid Hysaj: It made Italy weak

Myrto Uzuni: No, it is not that it is weak

Elseid Hysaj: Enter England, Spain, it was a group of hell

Myrto Uzuni: ... we play even better with stronger teams on paper and they are more beautiful matches to play

Prime Minister Edi Rama: he is right that Italy qualified after us. Then who do you like in the group?

Frederik Veseli: I don't know, how the lottery is for us is a significance

Prime Minister Edi Rama: No, you have nothing to do with the lottery. For example, who would you like to play with?

Frederik Veseli: I had fun having Portugal in the group, I also had a lot of fun in Italy. After I was in Italy for many years and then in the last group Switzerland once again. Is Switzerland in the last group? It goes well against Switzerland as well, because I was born and raised in Switzerland. Let's take revenge from the 2016 European Championship.

Prime Minister Edi Rama : I have it nailed. I saw that match in the stadium. I have a nail.

Frederik Veseli: I take revenge from that match and yes, as you said earlier, the team

Prime Minister Edi Rama: I have the impression that they were better, there was a better team then than what Switzerland has now

Frederik Veseli: Yes, much better

Berat Gjimshiti: There has been a change and now the new generation has arrived. So they are younger players now.

Prime Minister Edi Rama: It was a very good team...

Berat Gjimshiti: It was a fantastic team

Prime Minister Edi Rama: It was a very good team. And who do you love?

Berat Gjimshiti: To be honest, I have no preference

Prime Minister Edi Rama: Okay, I'm asking who do you want?

Berat Gjimshiti: To be honest, I haven't thought about who will fall for us. One might say Germany, just to show them in Germany that we have more fans than them.

Prime Minister Edi Rama: Well, I know that this is feasible.

Berat Gjimshiti: Yes, that's why I'm saying. Make more noise than those who are home.

Prime Minister Edi Rama: If the Germany-Albania opening were to happen, it would be great publicity for Albania. Yes, I have the impression that there are the colors of the stadium, I have the impression that I know that we can get at least a draw, at least there in the stadium. They will underestimate Albania a little bit, ours will say - Let's go and flatten Germany. How is the job of fandom. That people get used to it and in fact it is not their fault that they get used to it, then it seems to them the biggest wonder in the world and it seems intolerable that they do not level the Faroes for example, but the first thing is that there is the moment when sports lovers and those who follow the national team should be the same as the players. In the sense that it is the 12th player who must absorb that dissatisfaction with the same dignity and not that - "Hey, these are like this, these are like that". That I saw some commenting that - why who are we Brazil. Even Brazil could still be stuck. For example, he mentions Luxembourg. Luxembourg had now made its name. What have they done?

What happened to Luxembourg, how did it become so strong.

Berat Gjimshiti: We also lost in Luxembourg 2-1

Prime Minister Edi Rama: I don't know, he was tired when we lost. How is it possible?

Elseid Hysaj: Even worse for us. I believe that they also have extra community players from abroad

Berat Gjimshiti: I believe, that's why the quality has also increased

Prime Minister Edi Rama : .... Who do you like in the group?

Elseid Hysaj: I love Italy. I flattened them once and then gave them my hand. Good night Italy.

Prime Minister Edi Rama: It's just that they have changed with Spaleti. They have improved.

Elseid Hysaj: All young people too. All brought young. Normal that have quality.

Prime Minister Edi Rama: They changed it, because there was a moment when they were bad.

Elseid Hysaj: I spoke with these Napoli players, I always have good contact and they really told me that he is a coach who gives you a lot of motivation, gives you a lot of play and makes you grow. In fact, Italy also stood out. Spaleti came.

Prime Minister Edi Rama: Even against England they played well, they played very well in the first half. Then England with experience, strength and all.

Elseid Hysaj: Normal, then there are also these strong national teams that you sit on the field, but you fight for two minutes, maybe they change the game, they score two goals. In football it's always, it's nice that you can have a chance and it changes the game in two minutes. Even the last minute. We have also won the matches several times in the 95th minute. So the goalkeeper scored for us in the Champions League and tied the Champions League match. This is why football is beautiful. Even for the work of the fans, as you said. I actually understand that everyone wants to be a coach, everyone wants to say that they stay in hotels all day, why don't they play well. But when you are inside the concept of a football player, it is completely different. You have many other things. The pressure, the fans, the coach, the game. If the game doesn't go well, you will analyze it after the game. Even with the Faroe Islands as you said, the teams have grown, there are no more small teams. If you see on paper you say they beat them 3-0, but maybe they concede a goal and maybe they lose 1-0. So now I really have to be focused with all the teams. No more small teams.

Prime Minister Edi Rama: Who do you like in the group? Is Greece gone?

Mario Mitaj: No, there is no chance, it can be entered with the play-off. I want some strong team. Some France, some England.

Prime Minister Edi Rama: Do you want Mbappe? Even then you say, O Uzun, come on, I don't know where he went. Come on, help me find it.

Mario Mitaj: Then and some weaker team in the sense of the word.

Prime Minister Edi Rama: What phase are we in? The second?

Mario Mitaj: Yes.

Elhan Kastrati: As for me, as a fan of Germany that I have been, I love Germany because it is going through a transition period and it is not in very good shape. It would be an ideal opponent for us.

Prime Minister Edi Rama: Thank you that you will not play with Germany because you would have done to us as Perlat Musta did then. Do you know the story? It's the big story. It was the last match of the group and Germany definitely needed a win. I don't remember the year. Perlati was crazy about the Germans and he idolized this Shumaker, he was a goalkeeper. If you were able to find that match in the archive, I believe it must be in the VATS archives because we saw it at the VATS then. The match was extraordinary. One message and Perlat Musta was a cat and in the 87th minute, somewhere from the end, the Germans score a goal and he does some kind of acrobatics that was a header but it was catchable and a big problem was created because there were strong doubts that he left himself. And the fact is that after the match, Shumakeri goes to him and gives him the gloves and says, "I know what you did, thank you". So you will be on the bench.

Elhan Kastrati: You haven't seen me play. So don't say ishalla doesn't play.

Prime Minister Edi Rama: Ishalla doesn't play because since you say you die for Germany, you are giving us a goal.

Elhan Kastrati: I don't see anyone before Albania.

Prime Minister Edi Rama: It was a little different then. It was Albania, but it was also kind of like that and Perlati left it and Ishalla is not going to deny it because then there was a lot of debate. Chuna, thank you very much. Have you seen the Beckham documentary? Now we are waiting for the documentary about Uzun from Netflix, but you have to honor us in Europe.

Frederik Veseli: Go by helicopter.

Elseid Hysaj : He doesn't like the height, he only took pictures.

Prime Minister Edi Rama: Do you love them like this?

Elseid Hysaj : If you get on the plane, it ends completely. We also thank a man we have back here. The team manager, Dritan Babamustë, one of the few.

Prime Minister Edi Rama: He is always like the shadow of the national team and we met before the match with the Czech Republic, I told him, how are we? Victory, he told me. I said yes, but don't say it with such conviction. Here you can see it, he told me. And then I never saw him in the stands, I rarely saw anyone who wasn't there at all. Then the first goal was scored, then the second was scored, then the third was started.

Chuna, thank you. You are very good, you are an example, you are an inspiration and thank you for everything you have achieved this far. Now you know that appetite comes from eating. You know there is a saying in sports that there is no gratitude. There is no way because if the sport was based on gratitude, then it would lack that ferocity of the lack of desire for anyone who can be the star of the moment today, tomorrow if he can't be the star of the moment he doesn't exist, so the challenge ahead is great, but I am confident of only one thing. Since you have nowhere to run, where the situation is tight you give your best and come out better. Where you then say "we don't have a problem with these", there are scandals. So in this sense, I am very confident that the tension, plus the longer collection and processing, that you have these matches 2-3 days at most, and there you will have the opportunity to collect and motivate to give us another fantastic gift and mark your name with golden letters in the history of Albanian football.

Elseid Hysaj: Thank you very much.

Prime Minister Edi Rama: And on your way to where you are going, thank you for coming and much respect. These were 6 out of 26. I wish there were 11, but as I said, some flew and these fantastic birds sat here for another minute before flying off to continue their challenges and regroup like the birds of Albania before the big challenge. of EURO 2024.


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