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Poland, the 70-year "curse" of the Albanian National Team

2023-03-21 17:14:16Sport SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Poland, the 70-year "curse" of the Albanian National Team
Silvinho in the first training session with the Reds and Blacks

On March 27, the Albanian national team will play its first match for the European qualifiers against Poland in Warsaw. An opponent that the Reds and Blacks have also faced in the previous World Cup qualifiers, when we were considered unlucky, as we were defeated in both meetings: 4-1 in Poland and 0-1 in Tirana, taking away our hopes for a qualification possible for the World Cup play-off.

At first glance, the figures 4-1 in the match on September 2, 2021, in Warsaw, show a dislevel between the two teams, but in terms of episodes, a denied penalty, which was talked about for a long time and everything the team gave in that meeting , many are convinced that the result does not reflect the dislevel and what the teams gave in that 90-minute.

A few months later, 3 days after the great victory in Hungary, another team ranked better in the FIFA classification, gave hope to the red and blacks of Reja at that time, that they could do something more against Poland in "Air Albania" , taking into account the confrontation to some extent as equal, regardless of the result in Warsaw.

This time it was the pandemic that hit our national team. Before this challenge, 6 positive players with Covid brought an emergency formation, which in any case faced decently, but we got the disappointment again from that meeting, with the goal conceded in the 77th minute.

However, luckily or unluckily, the Reds and Blacks recorded their first and last victory against the Polish national team 70 years ago, on November 29, 1953, with the numbers 2-0. In those years, the Red and Blacks consisted of the biggest names in Albanian football and who have written history, and here it is enough to mention the two authors of the goals: Loro Boriçi and Refik Resmja.

In total, the red and black have met Poland 13 times and have a negative balance: with only 1 win, 9 losses and 3 draws.

Will we be able to succeed against the Poles this time? Today we have a new coach, a Brazilian without experience in leading a national team as a first coach, but with experience as an assistant to a great Brazilian coach, such as Tite, where together, for 4 years, they led the most successful national team in world, Brazil.

Grit, dedication, work and great desire are what characterize the new leadership staff of the Rossoneri: Silvinjo, Zabaleta and Doriva, but will these be enough to win?

Today, the Brazilian doesn't even have half of the last best team that Edoardo Reja had. Gjimshiti, Ismajli, Bare, Broja are missing only from the 11th of the formation, not to mention the two best Albanian goalkeepers of the last decade, Thomas Strakosha and Etrit Berisha, who are almost without minutes in goal.

Strakosha, transferred from Lazio to Brentford in the Premier League, has played only 3 games and those in the cup, or the last one in January. Berisha is out of the Torino team today, and not only has he not played.

A very difficult situation in theory to break Poland's 70-year curse, but the beauty of football is precisely the unpredictability and as the Brazilian coach says, "the important thing is that the players who will play give their soul and heart on the field, then the result comes."


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