Albanian Football Forum

Now that Albania is out,
Who are you supporting in the EURO'S?

The Luka Modric Croatia era looks to be over. What a run they had!

With Croatia out, I'm not sure who I am going for. Maybe just Spain. Georgia for underdogs.

Croatia is out because of Albania's inferiority complex against Italy lol. We don't give af about Balkan teams, but western European teams we shit our pants.

Italy went through with a 10th minute extra time goal to TIE the game. Meaning their game against us was the difference.

Croatia honestly just plays really open. I don't think it was an inferiority complex from our side. They just really left themselves open to counter attacks.

Even against Italy, Croatia's idea of defense was "a good defense is a good offense". I mean, I guess it's who they are.

Yugoslav nations are known for playing attacking game.

Italy is a bad matchup since Albanians in Serie A are reserves to Italians. Our players look up to and idolize those guys. Huge inferiority complex there..

Georgia are not even a good team and they managed to comfortably beat Portugal 2-0.

It's only us who act like these top teams are infallible and they can never have a bad day ever. Yes, ok, they are usually expected to win, but they also do have off days, and they do have times where they are inferior against more motivated and focused opposition even if it is unmatched on paper.

We act like we can never ever possibly upset a big team and can't dare to try and play positively. We kind of got over that hump with the games against Poland and Czechia but now we need to apply it to the top teams. Don't be scared and try and play football, even if they beat you, give it a go.

Since our team is out and the most friendly nation towards us Croatia is also out, i don't have a favorite but when we are out it suddenly becomes political for me.

I can't wait to see this team of Georgia getting trashed on 1/8 finals. Not only that they don't recognize Kosovo's independance but Kosovan passport is not recognized as well and every citizens of Kosovo is banned to entry in that country.

Then i wanna see Slovakia and Romania losing hard too both don't recognize Kosovo either and both of their governement and people fully support Serbia.

I wish the loss of Spain for the non recognition of Kosovo as well and Slovenia as their people usually support serbs and known to be called 'Alpine serbs'.

Also i wouldn't want Switzerland to win a major tournament just because of the pseudo "Albanians" playing there and the future of Albanians there who should not follow Xhaka and Shaqiri & co

I'm ok with pretty much all the rest. Perhaps Portugal, CR7 have always been fair with Albanians and even came to visit some children after the earthquake in 2021.

Seeing Duka next to Iniesta and David Villa is crazy. These are the people Albania elevates to lead them

It's crazy the young talent Spain has. Pedri and Gavi were considered two of the best young players in the world and both were injured this tournament (pedri midway). Then there's a dozen other top young players that don't get any recognition.

It's going to be their decade.

artan wrote: Sun Jul 14, 2024 11:55 pm It's crazy the young talent Spain has. Pedri and Gavi were considered two of the best young players in the world and both were injured this tournament (pedri midway). Then there's a dozen other top young players that don't get any recognition.

It's going to be their decade.

Alcaraz made my day yesterday! Considering their B team is better than any other NT in Europe they're set for 10-15 years.