He was brought by Panucci but remained in Albania, meet the Italian who created the database of all Albanian talents in the world

2023-11-29 15:53:26Sport SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
He was brought by Panucci but remained in Albania, meet the Italian who created
Alarico Rossi

The Albanian national football team for the second time will participate in a European, as from June 14 to July 14, 2024 it will be part of the 24 finalist teams. This success is not accidental as the work in the field has also had an impact. The Italian Alarico Rossi, a talent scout, has taken care of this. He has also been praised for his work by coach Sylvinho.

"When I arrived in Tirana, the Albanian Football Federation showed me a giant database. It's an incredible service, without it we would never have found Jasir Asani," coach Sylvinho told Reuters a week ago.

He refers to the software created by Alarico Rossi, an Italian football analyst, who arrived in Albania with Panucci in 2017, but then stayed there to revolutionize the way players are selected: "When I arrived they looked at me as an alien, I didn't had never seen my methodologies.

I noticed a gap in my sector and proposed the idea I had to the president of the federation, Armand Duka. I asked them to create a database of all Albanian footballers in the world, divided according to role and characteristics, to make the work of national team coaches easier".

With that said and done, the work started quickly and did not stop: "Official Albania has about 3 million Albanians, but if we count the immigrants and their children around the world, there are about 10 million. Not to talk about the ethnic Albanian population, but with different passports. The hardest part is determining whether or not a player can be called up under FIFA rules. Only then comes the technical-tactical part".

Then the chief of the "detectives" also spoke about the discovery of Yasir Asani.

“Asani is a perfect example to explain the whole process. He was born in Skopje, North Macedonia, but is an ethnic Albanian. He had never played for either of the two main national teams, neither for Albania nor for Macedonia, so he could be called up. When I put him in the database, referring to the time when he played for Partizan of Tirana, he was chosen MVP of the Albanian championship.

At that time the domestic championship was not considered competitive enough to justify a call-up to the national team. With Reja, we played with the 3-5-2 scheme, incompatible with the role of Asan, who is a pure attacking winger.

Meanwhile, the boy went to play first in Hungary, then in South Korea. In all these years I have continued to follow him thanks to my database, even in such isolated championships. The arrival of Sylvinho created the ideal tactical conditions for the call-up of Asan, a left-footed right winger, to finally materialize," Rossi told cronachedispogliatoio.it.


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