Cinema of Illusions: Besnik Dizdari’s “Ëndërra në beze” and the Cursed 1966–1967 Championship | Part ...
Part One! 1. Stripping the Beautiful Game of Post-Cold War Mythologies The history of football in the twentieth century is ...
Agustin Kola | The goal scorer with a troubled soul, a master of headers!
PROLOGUE Agustin Kola: the rebellious maestro of Albanian football. In the 80s, he would tower over any opponent of “17 Nëntori”, heading in goals with reckless precision. The ball seemed to find his forehead like a ...Vllaznia`s midfielder Ferid Borshi, an Albanian version of Hansi Mueller!
There is no doubt that Shkodra is the “Cradle of Albanian Football” not only because this sport was born there but also because many talented players came from the Vllaznia team of this old traditional city. ...Feyenoord–FK Partizan Albania, the match involving Artur Lekbello and Klootwijk, remains a life lesson in ...
What stuck with me most from that match? The goalkeeper: Artur Lekbello. It was as if he had been plucked right off the street just moments before and asked if he wouldn’t mind putting on a ...The aviator goalkeeper, Mikel Janku!
Mikel Janku (1941-2019) Epilogue Janku is the Albanian “warrior of the skies”, who traded propellers of helicopter for gloves of a goalkeeper. Once commanding the might of the Albanian Air Force, he found a new battlefield ...
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