10 days of patriots in Germany

From June 14th to June 24th; since yesterday evening there is no more. It was beautiful in those 10 days, as beautiful as a big balloon flying but suddenly it's gone. The European Football Championship in Germany. Albania's team for the first time at that height. Germany was killed in the red sea... on the Albanian road, in Albanian busts, in the arena... In the same balloon- thousand Albanians; if you weren't there, you had nowhere to be. O in there and be a patriot, or you'd be crucified. One of our girls, except for avoiding a little head off the ball, was called sold to Serbia. Now the balloon is neither down to the ground, nor is it found in the mortar. We are Albanian, we defeat Italy! We closed last night with losses and now we have to go back to Earth. Patriots aren't good at lowering the balloon.

What do we do now... when we don't have what we do! ?

Here on Albanian soil, there will not be a fifth of the patriots who filled the stadiums and streets in Europe. Only the engineers, a bunch of about two hundred, were from Tirana; the rest were those staying in Europe. They can't even get down here. Now here we are, Euro24 is over for us, we lost in the field, but patriotism remained in the mortar. But we are proud of many reasons: First we left for football, but we produced patriotism. Television chronicles were ripped apart, shouting: Look at him, look at him, dressed in red. Great scene. Football was rarely spoken of. Especially on the evening panels- girls dressed red but who don't know what this football is.

Second, this was the first time we got fired out of fear. Didn't you hear the chronics saying the Albanians were the nicest fans, without incident? Even those who set up balloons full of Albanians did not have the security point that Albanians would not make incidents; many of the stars have swallowed up the tale that Albanians are lame in Europe. We separated ourselves from another fear. Like Europeans don't want us because of religion! No, there's no such psycho. Our team was all named éAsani, Qazimi, Ramadani, Bajrami, Balliu, Aslan, Yaseri... When Italians and Croats danced in Albanian costumes and Albanian dances... then the patriots called it victory.

These don't know that in history we Albanians have accepted the other one and we've been accepted by him, even with the difference. Are we not interlocked in religion? But only this time did patriots enjoy it. The Albanians were put before two coalitions, a football-related alliance, while the other alliance has only ties to national enemies. The first sporting alliance, unfortunately built with only one pair, we by ourselves. All of them and endless talks asked Spain for forgiveness. Comments in Tirana were also made this way: The Spanish are good hearts, and they will do good for us. But the coalition apology was just an alliance with us, the Spaniards fought the second team and pulled us out of Euro24.

While the second alliance, the alliance with Croatia against Serbia. Albanian Patriots were ashamed to revile Serbia even with prisoners of the house. But the patriotic alliance with our enemy. If we had Croatia at the border, the patriots would be against Croatia with Serbia; but Serbia happened at the border. For these patriots Serbia is a destiny. The alliance and hostility with the neighbors is not that it has nothing to do with any ball. Croatians and Macedonians and Albanians, in this dispute-love, have entered because of a man -- Josip Tito, the long-lived leader of Yugoslavia.

All ethnicities hunt him down and wait for him as a football ball; as 22 boys play a ball in the stadium. Tito was Croatian, ruled Serbia as well; Serbia does not love it because it is not Serbian; Macedonians love Tito; Kosovars remember Tito's good days; while patriots in Tirana have only one book of memories with Tito, nothing else but follow the trend better with the enemy of my enemy. They had a good time these 10 days, even though we were back. Neither to Croats nor to Serbs do we exchange dances and costumes... You know why? Because we have almost the same. But that was not noticed by patriots.