Jaka: My father was tortured in prison, like his son this is a story that deeply touches me!

Switzerland beat Serbia by a score of 2:1 in Kaliningrad, with two goals that were marked by Albanian football players Jaka and Shaqiri at this meeting.

Graniti in the 52nd minute of the meeting marked a real gem against Serbs and celebrated the goal with eagles that has sparked many reactions in the world media.

FIFA today is expected to make a decision on Jaka and Shaqiri, but if they read the chilling story of Granit's family then they would not think of any punishment for Albanian footballers representing Switzerland.

The following can be read about Granit Jaka's interview with The Guardian.

As far as I know, his first months in prison were okay,” says Jaka. “But then torture began. ”

Granit Jaka's father was participating in demonstrations against the central communist government in Belgrade.

It was 1986 and he was a 22-year-old student at the University of Pristina in Kosovo, which was then an autonomous province in Yugoslavia. He would be arrested and held in prison for more than three years, reports the Guardian”, broadcast Insander.

"As his son, this is a story that deeply touches me "is really in my heart”, says Jaka. “To describe my father properly, you must evaluate him deeply. It's so tragic. Sometimes I ask: Tell me again, because I still think he's onto everything. There's always been silent moments where I've seen that he swallowed something and didn't whiteen the truth. Perhaps it was many, and he wanted to spare his children from grief. ”

He was a proud Kosovar and thought they had the right to exist. He was standing for their rights and were fundamental democratic rights, such as voting. It wasn't just him. Others had been arrested, including his uncle, who had been imprisoned a few years earlier. He spent 15 years in prison. They were totally political prisons. My father was wondering: Why don't we have democracy here? We deserve to be Democrats. We deserve to hear our voice”.

Understanding Jaka means understanding his family; how they suffered, how they were united, and how they worked hard to get to life.

His principles are loyalty and respect. When he does something, he does it with his heart and soul... like his father and like his mother, Eli.

One of the most interesting details about my parents is that they joined each other just three months before my father's arrest, says Jaka.

I have an incredible respect for my mother. I've never heard of a woman who's been with a man for just three months at that young age and who has then waited for him for three and a half years. My mother is just an incredible person. ”

One of the weirdest things is that we don't know why my father was released early from his sentence, but he left prison at the same time as my uncle. None of the family knew they were released until they were home.

Jaka's parents knew that they needed a new beginning, and in 1990 they emigrated to Switzerland. Their first son, Taulanti, was to be born in Basel in 1991 with Granit after 18 months.

My father showed an incredible force, and Taulanti and I grew up with his mental strength”, says Jaka. We've had this idol, which taught us that you have to be strong to achieve things. So we grew up very strong. That's why in the field, we have this mental force to do things right”.

Jaka owes everything to Switzerland, and the possibilities this country has offered him, but he cannot and will not forget his Albanian roots, which continue to touch him in London as well. During photography for this interview in Camden Toa, an Albanian passerby almost enters the street where we were taking the photos, as he knows Jaka. He was delighted when Jaka greeted him in Albanian.

“I have found here some truly good Albanians”, Jaka says. Some of them run a car car and I send my car there. We talk and, of course, talk about football. Some of them are Liverpool's supporters, some of Manchester United and has many Arsenal fans. We're making a lot of fun”

Jaka lives in Barnett with his wife, Leonita, but they have found a house very close to Camden Street. They go there several times a week to do shopping, lunch or just to relax.

I feel a connection to Camden that turns me into my childhood”, says Jaka. When Taulanti and I were children, we made our first bus trip from Basel to Pristina so that we could visit our grandparents for the first time. My mother and father had full - time work, and they worked as office cleaners at night. The bus stopped at various locations, and I had seen similar shops that Camden now remembers. ”

I'm a very simple man, I love normality and I love ordinary people. I like eating normal food. It's about the way I grew up. In Camden, I like the atmosphere. It's simple and it's fine. And there are people. I like to interact with them because they're simple and I'm simple. People probably don't expect an Arsenal player to come to Camden Lock and, like, be a simple guy”.

As he walked down the street with The Guardian's journalist, Jaka is banned from a person named Charles, a Nigerian fan of Arsenal. What he says to Jaka is not so friendly.

You're a good player, but...”, Charles begins. He continues to argue that Jaka needs to play with a more skilled footballer, such as Eden Hazard of Chelsea. “would be much better than Alexis Sánchez,” adds Charles.

In his fourth language, after those German, Albanian and French words, Jaka does not understand all the things Charles says and requires clarification. But Jaka is curious and interested. He knows that everyone is critical and acknowledges that Arsenal now has many such fans. /Periscope/