Partizani ends the year in second place December, 27 2005 - Partizani ended the year on a high note, winning six of the last seven matches, finding themsleves in second place, three points behind league leaders Elbasani. An impressive record for coach Starova who fueled the turn around for the team, getting 18 points in seven weeks with 11 goals scored and 3 allowed. In the impressive run, Starova lead the team into winning the two derbies against Dinamo and KF Tirana, 2-1 and 1-0 respectively, and also stopped the leaders for the first time in their stadium by the scoreline of 1-0. Then there were the convincing wins against Skenderbeu 3-0, Lushnja 2-0 and the away win in Durres against Teuta 2-1. For the new year some players will be arriving, ecpecially a striker, since Drobnjak will be departing and Machado is still unavailable due to injury. 19-year old Abilaliaj and Mahir Halili are the only choices in attack for now. this is the latest news from Partizani
Flamurtari, one of the most succesful Albanian clubs in European competitions is relegated to the second division unfortunately. However they have a new owner I believe and they are currently first in the second division. Next year they'll be in the First Division. I guess you must know them from the encounter they had some 20 years ago with Partizan Belgrade. That was a great series. Flamurtari went on to play Barcelona tying both games but losing on away goals. They were eleminated two years in the row by Barcelona.
SuperLiga - after Week 18 1 Elbasani 18 11 4 3 25-8 37 2 Partizani 18 11 1 6 25-16 34 3 Dinamo 18 8 6 4 31-21 30 4 Tirana 18 7 7 4 27-21 28 5 Besa 18 7 6 5 25-14 27 6 Vllaznia 18 7 3 8 20-22 24 7 Skënderbeu 18 7 2 9 21-29 23 8 Shkumbini 18 5 3 10 19-33 18 -------------------------------- 9 Teuta 18 4 3 11 14-27 15 10 Lushnja 18 3 5 10 12-29 14
First Division - after week 13 1.Flamurtari 13 11 0 2 31-11 33 2.Kastrioti 13 8 5 0 19- 3 29 3.Tomori 13 8 2 3 29-14 26 4.Apolonia 13 7 5 1 19- 9 26 --------------------------------------------- 5.Luftëtari 13 7 2 4 20-12 23 6.Erzeni 13 6 2 5 14-16 20 7.Pogradeci 13 5 5 3 13-16 20 8.Minatori 13 4 2 7 17-17 14 9.Besëlidhja 13 3 4 6 15-13 13 10.Egnatia 13 4 1 8 17-24 13 11.Turbina 13 3 4 6 15-23 13 12.Laçi 13 2 5 6 6-13 11 --------------------------------------------- 13.Ada 13 3 1 9 9-23 10 14.Butrinti 13 1 0 12 8-38 3
Yes, that is were I remember them from. Sorry for getting the name wrong. Do you think that Albania will make the European Championships in 2008? Albania has some decent talent, it's just a shame that some of them don't want to play for Albania.
it can happen but it's very very hard. especially since some of our best players are already in their thirties and might not be around in 2008
Week 19 Teuta Skënderbeu 1-1 [Babamusta / Ballço] Lushnja Dinamo 1-4 [Ambrose / Ahmataj, Poçi p, Pema, Vincetic] Partizani Shkumbini 3-0 [Delain, Abilaliaj, Bylykbashi] Elbasani Besa 2-1 [Brahja, Rizvanolli / Emanuel] Vllaznia Tirana 0-2 [Muka, Salihi]
Superliga - After 19th round 1 Elbasani 19 12 4 3 27-9 40 2 Partizani 19 12 1 6 28-16 37 3 Dinamo 19 9 6 4 35-22 33 4 Tirana 19 8 7 4 29-21 31 5 Besa 19 7 6 6 26-16 27 6 Vllaznia 19 7 3 9 20-24 24 7 Skënderbeu 19 7 3 9 22-30 24 8 Shkumbini 19 5 3 11 19-36 18 9 Teuta 19 4 4 11 15-28 16 10 Lushnja 19 3 5 11 13-33 14
No I don't think we'll make Euro 08. I believe we are a generation away from reaching either the World Cup or the Euro. It's the young players whose families have migrated to Western Europe who I believe will be the backbone of our future national team. There are some decent players who opted to play for their adopted countries instead of Albania such as Valon Behrami for Switzerland and Shefki Kuqi for Finland.
20th round results Teuta Vllaznia 3-1 [Mançaku, Zëre, Gjondeda / Sinani] Skënderbeu Lushnja 2-1 [Ballço, Rustemi / Cela] Besa Partizani 2-1 [Lila, Fortunat / Abilaliaj] Dinamo Elbasani 1-1 [Diop / Qorri] Shkumbini Tirana 0-1 [Salihi] Standings after 20th round 1 Elbasani 20 12 5 3 28-10 41 2 Partizani 20 12 1 7 29-18 37 3 Dinamo 20 9 7 4 36-23 34 4 Tirana 20 9 7 4 30-21 34 5 Besa 20 8 6 6 28-17 30 6 Skënderbeu 20 8 3 9 24-31 27 7 Vllaznia 20 7 3 10 21-27 24 8 Teuta 20 5 4 11 18-29 19 9 Shkumbini 20 5 3 12 19-37 18 10 Lushnja 20 3 5 12 14-35 14
Euro 2008 Group G schedule 2006 2 September: Romania – Bulgaria Belarus – Albania Luxembourg – Netherlands 6 September: Albania – Romania Netherlands – Belarus Bulgaria – Slovenia 7 October: Romania – Belarus Bulgaria – Netherlands Slovenia – Luxembourg 11 October: Belarus – Slovenia Luxembourg – Bulgaria Netherlands – Albania 2007 24 March: Netherlands – Romania Luxembourg – Belarus Albania – Slovenia 28 March: Romania – Luxembourg Slovenia – Netherlands Bulgaria – Albania 2 June: Slovenia – Romania Albania – Luxembourg Belarus – Bulgaria 6 June: Romania – Slovenia Luxembourg – Albania Bulgaria – Belarus 8 September: Belarus – Romania Netherlands – Bulgaria Luxembourg – Slovenia 12 September: Slovenia – Belarus Bulgaria – Luxembourg Albania – Netherlands 13 October: Romania – Netherlands Belarus – Luxembourg Slovenia – Albania 17 October: Luxembourg – Romania Netherlands – Slovenia Albania – Bulgaria 17 November: Bulgaria – Romania Netherlands – Luxembourg Albania – Belarus 21 November: Romania – Albania Belarus – Netherlands Slovenia - Bulgaria
I think I'm going to go back for these two games. With school over for good I think that September will be the best time to visit Albania and catch some great games while there.
Albania is looking for a new coach, and it may be well one of them: - Oto Baric - Uwe Rapolder - Claude Leroy - Alberto Zacheroni Albanian Federation is in negotiations with these coaches and the deccision will be taken in a few weeks. @ Jaga here some clubs: - KF Prishtina, 12 times champion - Vllaznimi, 9 times champion - Liria - Besa, best team in last 2 years - Flamurtari - Ferizaj - Drenica - Trepqa 89 etc etc
Scala is also one of the probable coaches for Albania. He's meeting today the head of the Albanian Federation to discuss a contract. If he accepts he'll probably get around $500.000 for the Euro 2008 qualifiers