Strakosha's first coach shares the Albanian goalkeeper's secrets: In his first mistakes he was crying...

But, the Albanian journey to become the title goalkeeper was by no means easy. His coach in Lazio's youth teams, Christian Ferrante, in an interview for “GinalucaDimarzio”, has confessed the beginning of the Albanian goal goal goal when Strakosha went to Lazio's team.

There were good physical qualities, but there were technical and emotional difficulties. For Tara, it was like his kid, he told me to treat him well. He had friends with his father. There's been scepticism for him, but it's been a good job with Inzagh and the goalie Grigion coach. After the trial period, I spoke to Tara and decided to hold her. He was very hardworking, and that convinced me. He had the desire to show his father that he can get far. The only thing he knew was to work”, Christian Ferrante said in his confession.

Although in 2012 Strakosha was only 17 years old, he showed maturity, sacrifice and desire to catch the tops of Italian football.

“Thomas came before the warehouses. He waited alone in front of the glade. Then he went to the gym, training, and lunch. Then he put up training with his friends, and again to the gym. At eight o'clock, she slept. He was back in the field at 9: 00 a.m. He lived in Formelo and arrived first in training, so soon we gave him the keys to the training center so that he could be trained alone too. He trained with me two hours in the morning, then went to school, and again returned to the field. After training with the group, he always asked me to continue training. He trained 8 hours a day and was hungry to get to where he dreamed, so one had to be taken away by some of his”.

The “was met with distrust, but there was a very good structure and great confidence in itself. In his first mistakes, he cried, became depressed, suffered badly every minor mistake. He is such a closed type, so diligent and devoted to his work, that he now perfectly recognises every opponent, even the penalties of Dubala”, Ferrant said. /360grads.al/