an hour agoFrom Obilic's smoke to the dream of Euro 2020, how Kosovo turned into Balkan Brazil within two years
Periskopi(7 years ago)
(7 years ago)Kosovo's national made a 180-degree change within a period of 2 years. Kosovo closed the year 2018 as the only national without losses in the world, and it must be remembered that the last defeat was exactly suffered by 494 days ago by Iceland with a score of 2-0, which was worth [...]
Kosovo closed the year 2018 as the only national without losses in the world, and it must be remembered that the last defeat was exactly suffered by the 494 days ago by Iceland, with a score of 2-0, which was valid for the qualifications of the 1998 Russia World Cup, reports Periscope.
For the Kosovo National Year 2018, it will be long remembered for the successes achieved, but the most interesting thing is the rapid change that happened within just 2 years.
In 2016, Kosovo was considered a modest national, and any opponents could overcome it without any problems, but now they are all naming Kosovo a Balkan crazil.
What happened to the National of Kosovo from 2016 to today?
Kosovo became FIFA's 210th member on May 13th 2016, while September 5th played the first match for the World Cup qualifications to Finland, where it surprised everyone by drawing a 1-1 draw in Helsinki, but since that faced by Albert Bunjak's election at the next 9 meetings suffer just as much defeat.
Turkey, Iceland, Ukraine, Croatia and Finland all defeated Kosovo in the first qualifying campaign for a significant competition such as World Cup qualifications.
Kosovo in these qualifications scored only 3 times and suffered a total of 24 goals.
But it must be acknowledged that the Kosovo National players have sacrificed much during these qualifications. They didn't even have a stadium to meet the conditions for good training until they were held in Shkodra.
Football players performed the exercises at the Kek Stadium, where only a few metres from the stadium were seen smoke from Obilic thermal power plants.
And for the field nobody cared about, it was so hard and unspoiled that it caused three or four players to get hurt in training only because of inadequate terrain.
Kosovo football player Besar Halimi himself has even shown that there were cows in the stadiums where the Nationalist performed the exercises.
Halimi told this story about the renowned portal What was the craziest event that ever happened to the National of Kosovo?
So, before we started training, we had to remove the cows from the” field, confess to the Kosovo midfielder while laughing at the event he was telling about, "Goal."
And the most painful thing is that when you remember that the players were changed to the hotel and the stadium all they did is to run their shoes and start training in miserable condition. They never complained even though they were right. Their health was threatened by the smoke of thermal power plants and areas that had no basic conditions, but they never stopped anyway.
Kosovo players deserve a huge respect for the soffering they make during this period, until the best days for them were to come in 2018, when they were to begin playing at the Mytic Stadium é Fadil Vokrriø in Pristina.
Albert Bunnjak, after completing the World Cup qualifications Russia 2018, resigned and Kosovo was seeking its successor, who turned out to be very shot.
Bernard Challandez on March 2, 2018, takes the lead in Kosovo, and from this day, therdians were celebrated at each match.
Challandes completely changed the National of Kosovo, so that others began to regard us as Balkan Brazili.
The Swiss coach managed to successfully manage Kosovo's stars.
He has told all that no one dares condition Kosovo after Bersant Celine had asked him to account for failing to activate in a match.
Challandes debuted with Kosovo in a friendly match against Madagascar, where thehades triumphed with a minimum score of 1-0. Even in the next two friendly Kosovo achieves victory over Burkina Fasos[2-0] and Albania[3-0].
Kosovo then entered the League of Nations with great ambition, Challandes brought a new spirit to the National, and successes were not random.
The fights were no longer held outside its territory, and the stadium Faldil Vokrriu became hell for opponents coming to play there, Periscope follows.
Kosovo was part of the 3rd Group in the D League, along with Azerbaijan, Malta and the Faroe Islands. It finished first in the group with 14 points, and was also the most efficient national in this competition, marking 15 goals until it accepted only 2.
The New Yorkers have now secured the play-off phase where they will play with Macedonia in March 2020 in the semifinals. In the event of victory, then Kosovo in the final will meet with the winner of the Georgia-Belarus match. With an eventual victory in the finals, Kosovo would cut its ticket for Euro 2020.
Kosovo is only two matches away to write history by qualified in a competition as the European Championship just a few years after accession to the U EFA and FIFA.
But, Kosovo has yet another opportunity for qualifications for Euro 2020, through electronics. On December 2nd, in Dublin, Ireland, lots were cast for the Euro 2020 eliminations, with Kosovo ranked in Group A with England, Czechia, Bulgaria and Montenegro.
? Our story so far...
-20 years of track before and after the war
2016 Recognized by FIFA/ UEFA
2018 Tops the #UNL Group ) Secure ♪ EURO2020 Play-off
2018 Finish the year unseen
2019 Playing at Assembly against England with a chance to learn ♪ EURO2020 spotto be continued Pic.twitter.com/9IYBZydm4t
) Kosovan Football? (@kosovanfoty) December 3, 2018
Sometimes players who didn't even have a stadium to do their work and trained in cow presence have the golden opportunity to show the world that Kosovo is a small place, but with great talents and that a qualifications in Euro 2020 would not be the case, but the result of the sacrifice and hard work of national football players and staff. /Periscopi/
