The Eighties | Our unforgettable Sundays!

Football! The eighties, our unforgettable Sundays!

Albania has had a dignified football national championships, but, from which we would single out the championships from the 80-ties generation, the football players, teams….

Championships of those years that many of the decade (1980-1990)  I have followed with passion, interest and with emotions up to the indescribable ones.

The championships of that decade remain the highest quality, perhaps because we are the generation that grew up in those years with a passion for the sport of football in general, where Albanian football had also a special place.

The passion was born in me as a young child, as every child of the time falls in love with this sport and its champions.

For us of the 80s, it was the time of Maradona, Zico, Rrumenigge, Rossi, up to Guli, Van Basten, etc., in the world arena, and the Albanian one of Kaci, Musta, Agim Murat, Hado, Kercicet and Korce, Andrea Markos of Targaj, Kola and Minga, A. Hafizi, Vukatana and F. Rragami, P. Kovaci, S. Braho, A. Boni, D. Bajazit, Aleksander Koci of Naftetari, Kujtim Majaci of Apollonia, an endless list of champions that passed during that unforgettable decade. That’s why I grew up following them from the stands of the stadiums, through the Albanian Television TVSH, the matches of the day with the commentators Y. Kurti, V. Grillo; S. Kellici; or even later F. Fico.

We never forgot the “Rrubrika Sportiva” Show of Mondays directed by Vladimir Grillo; with full emotions listening the Radio in the Sundays show “From one match to another” hosted by Ahmet Shqarri, and the different commentators from the other cities where we can remember some of them, no doubt starting with two or three of unforgettable: Ismet Bellova. Veli Rada, Ymer Kurti and so we can continue with the now deceased from Shkodra Ymer Striniqi, in Elbasan with Sefedin Allkja, in Gjirokaster Pirro Qiqi, etc. voices that described and conveyed to us the emotions of the matches of our unforgettable Sundays.

However, the passion and interest was not limited to that, but many of us collected the “Sporti Popullor” newspaper, the only news agency of that time.

The generation of the 80s of teams and players who participate in the national championships is for many opinions the most excellent period of Albanian football. Among other things, we have positive and satisfying results in the international arena, both with the national team and at the club level.

Dinamo – Carl Zeiss Jena 1-0 (1981); 17 Nentori – Larisa 3-0 (1982); 17 Nentori – Linfield 1-0 (1982); Dynamo – Aberdeen 0-0 (1982); Albania – Ireland v. 0-0 (1982); Albania – West Germany 1-2 (1983); 17 Nentori – Hammarby 2-1 (1983); Under 21  Albania – Austria 3-0 (1983); Our Under 21 Team, in the 8th of Europe, after knocking out of the European the Germans…. West Germany – Albania 1-1 (1983);

West Germany – Albania 2-1 (Saarbrucken, 1983); Poland – Albania 2-2 (1984); Albania- Belgium 2-0 (1984); Dinamo – Sporting Lisbon 0-0 (1985).

To continue with 17 Nentori – Dinamo Bucharest 1-0 (1986); Malmo – 17 Nentori 0-0 (1986); Flamurtari – Fc Barcelona 1-1 (1986); Flamurtari – Partizan Belgrade 2-0 (1987); Flamurtari – BISMUTH AUE 2-0 (1987); Flamurtari – Barcelona 1-0 (1987); 17 Nentori – Sliema 5-0 (1989); Dinamo – Cerno Morets 4-0 (1989); Dinamo Tirana – Dinamo Bucharest 1-0 (1989); Dinamo Tirana – Olympique Marseilles 0-0 (1990); Gotenborg – Flamurtari 0-0 (1991)…..

So these results came becouse we had a really dignified national championships. , with an attacking accent and fighting spirit of the race, with desire and passion from the players who gave their maximum with seriousness for the jerseys they represented in the competitions they played, even though it was probably difficult from the financial side and the lack of sports material;

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