Poor results and unhappy organisation in Kosovo A

In 2016, Kosovo had concluded with a negative series of three losses in a row, and with these results began in 2017.

Kosovo's best preliminary match was just towards Iceland on March 24th, but in the end, it wasn't just a beautiful game after we were defeated at quite Loro Boriqih 1-2.

Three months later we were Turkey's economy, which had no mercy at all, marking us with four goals at the base of one of Kosovo's Amir Nundma.

Kosovo footballers celebrating goal towards Turkey

But as if the poor results were not enough, football players and technical staff were also facing an extremely weak NKB organization.

The state of training field in Kosovo for the representative footballers was terrible, and perhaps that has also affected the results achieved.

In September, our footballers travelled to Croatia to prove worthy in front of Croats who in two days defeated us.

Initially, the match started on September 2nd, but after heavy rainfall, it was cut off and tomorrow was played to suffer minimal 1-0.

match held on September 2nd on rainy terrain

The next day the match continued where Croatians beat us down minimally 1-0

And from Croatia to Shkodra, our footballers were on buses and planes, as the trip lasted longer than they had imagined.

When we all expected victory over Finland, it didn't happen because even the Scandinavians defeated us in Shkodra, with a minimum score of 1-0.

Even in the last two matches, we suffered losses, against Ukraine in Shkodra 0-2 and Iceland on the same trip.

After 10 matches in groups, Kosovo closed the qualifications for the World Championship in its final position with only one score, three scores of goals and 29 taken.

Coach Albert Bulnjak's departure

Albert Bunnjak did an extraordinary job at the head of the Kosovo representative.

But he had great criticism, and perhaps his departure affected the most people around him.

The coach from Drenas decided to leave with agreement from the head of Kosovo's representative after the last match against Iceland.

Albert Bunnjak has been thanked by all players for what she has done for Kosovo's representative

Of course, for players gathered so far, the biggest merits are to Bulnjak, who had the coach's role in Kosovo, is also doing the work of the president's manager by traveling and seeing and meeting the players at the end to be persuaded to wear the Kosovo fan.

As long as he was in charge of Kosovo, thank you Albert.

First win in Kosovo in a friendly match after FIFA accession

Kosovo played its first friendly match in 2017 on November exactly the month in front of Latvia at the yadem Jasharı stadium in Mitrovica.

Although it was a rainy weather, there was great interest in the representatives who had come to support it.

The locals were three times at the top of 0-1, 1-2 and 2-3, but the match ended with the show when, in the 86th minute, Elbasan Rashan on 3-3, while Besar Halimi in the last seconds marked for Kosovo's first 4-3 victory.

At this meeting the Kosovo Representative led Albert Bunnjak's deputy, Muharrem Sahiti and Genc Hoxha, as the NFF has not yet decided on the new coach.

Kosovo's hopes make us dream of a bright future

During 2017, qualifying matches also played hopes from U21 to U17.

The U21 representative held six qualifying matches where she had a good match, winning two victories over Norway 0-3 (at the table) and 3-2, a draw against Azerbejxian 0-0, as well as suffering 0-4 from Israel, as well as a minimal-0 result from Germany and Ireland.

Enormous presentations were made by representative Ramiz Krasniqi, Kosova U19.

Our boys managed to get into qualifications for the European Championship thanks to two 3-0 victories over Lithuania 1-2 over Israel, as well as suffered a 100-0 loss from Austria.

In contrast to U19 young U17 representatives despaired by conducting three matches and losing them 123 from Hungary, 2-0 from Wales and 3-1 from the Netherlands.