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Albanian football in mourning, the former footballer of Skënderbeu and Pogradec passes away

Politiko 2023-06-07 10:11:02

Albanian football in mourning, the former footballer of Skënderbeu and

The former football player of Skenderbeu, Festim Fetollari, has passed away.

The bitter news was announced by the Municipality of Pogradec.

Through a post on social networks, it is written that with his death, Pogradeci and Skënderbeu have lost one of the most popular football players in the last 30 years.

Full post

Farewell Festim Fetollari, thank you for everything you have given to football. The well-known football player of Pogradec and Skenderbeu, Festim Fetollari, died suddenly at the age of 54. Fetollari will start the football game in Korça with the first youth team of Skenderbeu. But since he lived far from Korça, it was difficult for him to continue training normally. That's why he decided to continue the magic of football in Pogradec, since his village Pirg was closer to this city. His coaches, Urim Jorgoni and Kopi Gusho, immediately included him as a starter with the youth team, but very soon the talented midfielder would move to the adults of the lake team where he played until 1994 with a group of footballers, obviously with the best of all Pogradec football history, from Janaqi and Blaceri, Bashllari and Abazaj, Čeciçi and Laçka and many others who did everything for their team. After this year, we see Fetollari as a footballer of Skenderbeu, where he plays until 1999, to return once again to Pogradec, where he ends everything as a footballer. Later, we see Fetollari as a coach near the Pogradecar club when the lakers were playing in the first category. For 1 season he was also the coach of the Devolli team to return once again to the Pogradec football academy where he undertook to lead a group of small U11 footballers, to whom he taught the magic of this game. With the passing away of Festim Fetollari, Pogradeci and Skenderbeu have lost one of the most popular football players in the last 30 years. Fetollari was from that "breed" of destructive midfielders, which Albanian football lacks today.

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