Albanian Football Forum

Aurora Bulkualis wrote: Fri Mar 21, 2025 10:43 pm What pisses me off more than losing is their complete incapability to score against these big teams. When was the last time we even scored against England?

To answer this: it was 2001 the last time we scored against England, and that was the only time we've scored against them ever in that 3-1 loss in Tirana.

There needs to be an overhaul of the attacking corps in this team.. in particular, to remove all the players who are not confident or brave enough to fight and try things.

I have defended Uzuni for a very long time. I also defended others like Asani. I also defended Manaj (even though he didn't play this game I am sure he would also do nothing).

The problem with all of them is not necessarily that they can't play football. It's that they have no mental game. They can't keep calm and they have no game awareness. In short, they are not mentally cut out to play against top teams.

Someone like Broja is not really great either as evidenced by his passing but he plays with courage and confidence so he can show ability unlike the others. That's really all it is with the Albanian players.

We need to revamp the attackers and to bring in fresh guys who aren't tainted. Try new guys even if they aren't doing the best at club level.

Horrible game, to many amateurs to even have a chance to pull a surprise result wise.

This team was obviously happy to lose 2-0 against England and was willing to defend to keep that scoreline same how Albania tried hard to preserve the 2-1 loss in the opening euro match against Italy. Against big teams they don't try to score and want to keep a respectable scoreline in tact. Very sad.

Silvinho is obviously a fraud. You can't always get lucky with Asani scoring wonder goals and VAR bailing you out.

artan wrote: Fri Mar 21, 2025 11:07 pm This team was obviously happy to lose 2-0 against England and was willing to defend to keep that scoreline same how Albania tried hard to preserve the 2-1 loss in the opening euro match against Italy. Against big teams they don't try to score and want to keep a respectable scoreline in tact. Very sad.

Silvinho is obviously a fraud. You can't always get lucky with Asani scoring wonder goals and VAR bailing you out.

Who is the miracle manager that would fix this team and qualify us to the WC? Really?

IMO, now is the time to integrate players like Medon Berisha and Ernest Muçi into the starting lineup.

Albanian players don’t have the physical preparation to challenge a team like England..

The best athletes in the world grow up playing a variety of different sports (football, basketball, baseball, American football, track and field, etc.)

From what I have noticed in Albania, children grow up playing just one sport (football), which limits their physical preparation.

In western countries, physical preparation is given a ton of priority within the education system. For any high school, at least a couple hours everyday are devoted to physical education/sports/lifting weights. That is independent of extra curricular sports teams/practices after school.

In my opinion, Albania seems to be far behind in this regard..

Princ wrote: Fri Mar 21, 2025 11:48 pm Albanian players don’t have the physical preparation to challenge a team like England..

The best athletes in the world grow up playing a variety of different sports (football, basketball, baseball, American football, track and field, etc.)

From what I have noticed in Albania, children grow up playing just one sport (football), which limits their physical preparation.

In western countries, physical preparation is given a ton of priority within the education system. For any high school, at least a couple hours everyday are devoted to physical education/sports/lifting weights. That is independent of extra curricular sports teams/practices after school.

In my opinion, Albania seems to be far behind in this regard..

Ok but what does that have to do with Asani not knowing what an offside trap is? You can't control the entire infrastructure, but you can control whether to put amateurs who don't understand the basic rules on.

Aurora Bulkualis wrote: Sat Mar 22, 2025 12:23 am

Princ wrote: Fri Mar 21, 2025 11:48 pm Albanian players don’t have the physical preparation to challenge a team like England..

The best athletes in the world grow up playing a variety of different sports (football, basketball, baseball, American football, track and field, etc.)

From what I have noticed in Albania, children grow up playing just one sport (football), which limits their physical preparation.

In western countries, physical preparation is given a ton of priority within the education system. For any high school, at least a couple hours everyday are devoted to physical education/sports/lifting weights. That is independent of extra curricular sports teams/practices after school.

In my opinion, Albania seems to be far behind in this regard..

Ok but what does that have to do with Asani not knowing what an offside trap is? You can't control the entire infrastructure, but you can control whether to put amateurs who don't understand the basic rules on.

Asani not knowing what is offside trap is NOT the reason we got dominated..

The reason we got dominated is that they were too big, too fast, too strong.

Physically, they were on another level..

well the atmosphere was amazing in the stadium, I don’t know if you guys could hear it.

One thing quickly , TKZ are a bunch of morons, they set multiple flares off under the big albania flag where I was causing families to choke on smoke, morons.

anyway onto the game, we played like pussies until they scored , should’ve been 3-0 by HT and the only chances we had we didn’t do anything .

Long balls to Uzuni against a 6’7 Dan Burn, what’s Sylvinho thinking ?

again the fans were incredible