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(7 years ago)The Australian television channel group, Sport Optus, has made it known that it has shot a documentary about Kosovo, following the impressive success of “Dardians” in the UEFA League of Nations. Today another piece was published by the documentary prepared by Sport Optus, where among those interviewed is the president of the Kosovo Football Federation, [...]
Today another piece was published by the documentary prepared by Sport Optus, where Agim Ademi, of the Kosovo Football Federation, is among those interviewed. The complete documentary was released this week.
In the first video published by this documentary, which was released last week, some of the best moments of Kosovo's national team, such as victory over Azerbaijan, which provided “Dardians” a seat in the play-offs for qualifications at the 2020 European Championship.
And in this second video, it's about football history in Kosovo.
Kosovo.
One of the footballs west nations. But with a powerful football history. And they're on the side of a fayyle.
We went after the scene in Kosovo, to see how the football is blocking the country's culture.#Kosovo #OptusSport Pic.twitter. com/oX9H4 OAtB
(@OptusSport) March 26, 2019
“Kosovo: one of the newest football countries, but a powerful football story. And they're on the verge of a story. We went behind the scenes, in Kosovo, to see how football is changing the cultural landscape of the country”, writes Optus Sport on Twitter.
Kosovo's “football history is quite interesting. Only one team played in the former Yugoslavia League until 1990, Pristina”, says one of those interviewed, journalist Adem Sylejmani.
“In the early 1990s, any football activity associated with ethnic Albanians and Kosovo ceased to exist. The Yugoslav regime had excluded us from any race, and from all stadiums in Kosovo”, says NFF chairman Ademi.
“Kosovo, in the European Championship?”
It's not an impossible dream.#Kosovo. Football-made, and full of ambition.#OptusSport Pic.twitter. com/ JozdIJ27Hf
(@OptusSport) March 26, 2019
“Federata moved from legal stadiums to illegal fields. People of goodwill borrowed their fields for use as stadiums. People traveled illegally to the stadiums because they were not allowed to hold gatherings because of the law then existing”, Sylejman continues.
In fact, me and some other members of the Society's Executive Committee were activists at the time. Everything was done on a voluntary basis. Footballers played for free, all the people involved in the organisational process did this job for free. Club leaders gave their money, all just to organise competitions, and this continued until Kosovo's liberation”.
