Tirana is missing three trophies! Two were won during the Italian holidays in 1939 and 1942, one was canceled in 1967

Kristaq Mico, the former president of the Albanian Football Federation in the ’80s was among the defenders of the official thesis giving his arguments for the 2 war titles won by Tirana 1939 and 1942.

“On April 14, the Italian occupiers set up two organizations, a sports organization called the Fascist Youth Organization Liktori, one of the heroes of 2000 years ago in the Roman Empire, and Dopo Lavoro, who ran cultural activities. The activities were not named “The national football championship took place”, therefore one of the reasons that those championships are not known was because they were not regular national championships run by the football federation. “- said Miço

However, the Tirana club a few years ago set up a working group to verify their thesis, which also included sports journalist Bedri Alimemeti.

“Rome became champions for the first time in 1942 when it was the peak of fascism, a year later fascist Italy capitulated, now how do you say we do not recognize Rome as the champion of Italy? Absolutely not, ROma is the champion of Italy in 1942 where fortunately there was an Albanian footballer who bought him from Tirana at that time as Naim Kryeziu. “Even then you live, people breathed, they became children, books, movies, sports were made and all things were done, why should it be denied that a champion has emerged,” said journalist Bedri Alimemeti.

“Any national activity if not led by the football federation was not considered a national championship. Fshiuzmi itself has not accepted them as national activities, in all the newspapers of the time in the newspaper “Fshizmi” that was published here in Tirana in the Albanian newspaper of Bari that appeared in the grass, the newspaper Tomorri, the newspaper Tomorri i vogel, in all it was written took place the national fascist youth championship, ”said Kristaq Mico.

At that time Germany was unified with Austria and Austrian teams played in the German Bundesliga. The German champion in 1943 announces an Austrian team, as the Austrians know him.

“UEFA had not been created yet, because what was created in 1954 was only FIFA that did not recognize as national championships all the countries that were conquered by Italian and German fascism. Of course, the activities took place, but they were not recognized as official activities, “said Kristaq Mico, former president of the football federation in the 1980s.

Besides them, Tirana thinks that it has been unjustly taken away from them and the trophy of 1967.

It was June 24, 1967, it was Saturday, Saturday afternoon in “Qemal Stafa”, the match took place very regularly, Tirana won 2-1 with Partizan, while in the locker rooms there was a quarrel. When on Tuesday that the newspaper Sporti Popullore at that time came out on Tuesday, there was a short announcement there, these two teams are excluded from the national championship, for unsportsmanlike gestures, for foreign shows, bourgeois revisionist of decadent sport and talk so much of these , this match is called invalid and both teams are excluded from the championship. The footballers took the medals at that time and with the cup made a greeting lap. The Dinamo players at that time were coached by a Nobel laureate as a man and as an athlete, Skënder Jarecin, he manages to get inside and only his gesture showed everything that they had not won the championship but remained in his hands. “- said Bedri Alimemeti.

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