How did 2017 go for Kosovo representatives

The series of its losses came to an end with the eliators closing for the world's “Russia 201818x1>. In the first match after the electorate -- the one friendly to Latvia -- Kosovo scored victory. In the dramatic match that took place on November 13th, Kosovo won with a score of 4:3 more goals scored in the extra minutes.

Besides the event's football representative, other representatives held, and basketball and handball were estimated to have better results. They had victories, they went through rounds of races, but their activities didn't have the sound of football.

The football representative in 2017 closed her first chip. It remained at the point of the first match, to Finland on September 5, 2016.

Kosovo has managed to create respected representatives for a short time, and with even a game to surprise the world's top-present. In this respect, we should be very pleased that today Kosovo has the world's newest representative in age and has a sound basis for the next European, which was our target”, Albert Bunnjak said.

Kosovo for the first time in 2017 has also been represented by representatives of new age groups. Success was U-19, which passed a round, while some good results also recorded U-21.

The female representative lost the first three qualifying matches.

Large steps of money have marked representatives of handball, especially women's. The handball representative at the beginning of the year played two matches with Estonia in pre-qualification for Europeans, but suffered losses. He didn't make it to the first attempt to secure the second phase of qualifications, but he made it through another way. At the IHF Championship for developing handball countries, Kosovo came in third and thus went to the second qualifying round for the European in 2020.

The female representative in handball after reinforcements with career players in Europe defeated Georgia and Israel during June, and for the first time in history successfully moved to the first European qualifying phase. In the second phase, he faced real European handball forces. It was deep in Hungary and the Netherlands. With matches of this level will continue next year. Handball has continued racing even with representatives of age groups, with timely success.

Well, hendballers made the big move, too. Since in 2016 Kosovo's basketball representative lost all qualifying matches for “Eurobasket”, The FBK decided on changes to representatives. The selection was named American Brad Greenberg, while Lis Shoshi, Erjon Kastrati of Guzim Morina, joined representatives. And refreshment bore fruit. Kosovo beat Macedonia and Estonia to pass as second to Group C from pre-qualification to the first phase of qualifications for the 2019 world. Out of qualifications left Macedonia.

Kosovo has already played its first two qualifying matches for the world. It has suffered deep losses from Lithuania at home and with eight different points from Hungary on its journey. Loss in Debrecen has given hope that Kosovo can leave behind Hungary and thus move to the next round to continue the historic journey.

That volleyball has remained behind three other collective sports, representatives' results also testify. Volleyballers have suffered five losses in world qualifications, while winning only one set. Volleyballers have also lost in all matches. They haven't won a set. /Periscopi/