Pacolli: What Fadil Vokrri achieved is not even being achieved by diplomatic means

Kosovo Foreign Affairs Minister Behgjet Pacolli has given his last farewell today to FFK Chairman Fadil Vokrri.

Pacolli has claimed that Fadhil was someone who never spoke ill of anyone and that he succeeded in making everyone proud and equal.

According to Pacolli, Fadhil in Kosovo's international integration, something has been achieved that those in politics want us to achieve by diplomatic means, with talks, with negotiations but has yet to be achieved.

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The loss of Fadhil hurts so much!

All of Kosovo, working and writing, of the state and opposition, of the old and the young, of the cities and villages, the diaspora and the fellow citizens are speaking and writing to honour Fadil Vokrin. Even individuals, clubs, athletes or people of politics in the neighbouring country of Serbia, throughout the former Yugoslavia, are expressing their grief over the premature loss of a legendary figure like Fadil Vokri. Even the sports world in the region, or the globe.

Fadil was and thus remains a joint figure, identifying all generations of Kosovars, Kosovars wherever they live in the world, or Kosovars with others in the former Yugoslavia.

Fadhil was an icon of Kosovo pride in the former Yugoslavia. Fadhil became the icon of Yugoslav sports pride worldwide. It was a symbol of our battles as a people for equality in the former Yugoslavia. And he did it in his sports battles or through sports to increase our equality, to enhance our pride.

Fadhil was someone who never spoke badly of anyone, both inside and outside Kosovo, as if anyone mentioned him in a column of his own.

Fadhil actually managed to make us proud and equal, and then, after Yugoslavia was destroyed, the common home where we Albanians were barely, and we came out of it threatened by our existence. He introduced Kosovo to international sports bodies, a company we have not yet achieved. He enabled this, why sports has its own legitimacy, why sports opens more doors than politics, that sports communicates with citizens more simply and more naturally with people, with citizens, regardless of nationality. So sports, athletes are more powerful than politicians. Politicians even need athletes more than consecutive.

Fadhil thus was not known only for us, for his generation; but he became known and standard and for the younger generation. He was identified with our representative who is taking excellent steps forward, and this representative is today the strongest motivational mechanism of the talented younger generation in sports. We are a new state and we need to build new collective awareness, which I'm not dareing to call national awareness, why we belong to the Albanian nation. Figures like Fadhil are the most perfect to unite us with different generations, with early successes and news about Fadhil. The figures, such as Fadhil, who have an international reputation, are the most perfect to represent us and Kosovo outside.

Fadil in Kosovo's international integration has achieved something that we politics want to achieve by diplomatic means, with talks, with negotiations, but we have not yet achieved. In raising the flag of our new country, our new political home, he has certainly directed our neighbors. Serbian politicians. They think of votes, understand Kosovo's entry to FIFA, U EFA, acts that make Kosovars equal in sports competitions. These acts go directly to the consciousness of their voters, provoking them. That's why they probably didn't love Fadhil.

But Fadhil is a legend and they can't touch him, they can't attack him publicly, and before his greatness they were and are forced to humble themselves.

Fadhil is someone who defeated Belgrade in the 1980s. He defeated the world, Belgrade beat him on several occasions, when he faced Pristina, when he found himself inside as a Partizan player and honored with Belgrade's ovations in stadiums. He defeated her even now in the 21st century. But he defeated him in peace, by means of sports. It was the victory of the successful individual, who often does more than army or other collectiveities.

His victory over Serbia, his victory over the world, his victory for Kosovo by him is more natural, without casualties. And when you see how the citizens and politicians of the neighbouring country unite us in our pain of losing him, it comes natural to think,

This man who beat them all, in sports, could and would make reconciliation with them. Nothing left because he couldn't lose!

Look how many reasons we cry all of Fadhil's loss and are together around his lifeless body. Sports is before politics: it makes us proud, makes us victorious yesterday and today.

Easy be the soil of Kosovo, my friend! Often our paths in life were crossed when you were the champion of Yugoslavia and today the champion of Kosovo in the world. I'm proud to have walked a little further with you.