Edi Rama for Lorik Cana: Kosovo King, not far off the day he becomes Albania's coach

Albania's Prime Minister Edi Rama has congratulated Albanian national football captain Lorik Cana on her birthday.

In a social networking post, Edi Rama relates Cana's path to becoming champion, describing him as a military leader eager for difficult victories, not a sportsman who fought for fame. The post is closed with a birthday wish, where Rama also predicts Cana's return as coach to the top of the Albanian national. Lorik Cana celebrates her 37th anniversary today, and the prime minister writes:

Lorik Cana is perhaps the only host of the red fane, or at least the only one I know, that the green field of football and the field of Albanian history has lived as two half of the same area of his passion. Despite the world's most popular sport, from childhood on, thanks to talent, will, and a father's undaunted dream of seeing the boy at the top of the ball game, Lorik went up and left a mark on every team he played. He held the captain's tape in the French Olympic Cave of Marseilles and became a symbol of the Eagle National gathered from all Albanian lands to bring the red flag for the first time in history to the European Finals.

What makes Kosovo so special, on the rough road to football peaks, where there was no one, and the taxation of physical injuries that an elephant would have lying on the ground, is his passion for history, origin, language, wars, Albanian efforts over the centuries. I don't know if it was a red fan who took Lorik to reading about the battles of Albanians over the centuries or were reading the battles that made him experience the fanella as a battle choir for Albania in the field of sports battles, but every time I've met him talking to him about the National, I've always felt like talking to a military leader eager for difficult victories, not a sportsman satisfied with his glory.

Lorik withdrew from the green field when the injured body could no longer follow the hero's ambition to lead the battle by force to the last drop of blood and devoted himself to creating a foundation for children. I don't know why I have the conviction that there will be a distant day when the charming leader will again descend into the arena to lead Albania's scarlet or northern Kosovo or otherwise, why not, an army of land united in the future, into an unforgettable sport war again. Amen! ♪ T DIANA.