
Mirel Josa thinks that the Albanian National Team should be focused on the upcoming match against Serbia without focusing on its past with this opponent.
Invited to the "Sport News" studio on "News 24", Josa explained his point of view on how Albania needed to be more careful about how the Kosovar footballers who are part of the Rossoneri, for whom this challenge had a greater emotional charge, would behave.
" Really, as the technical staff have expressed, whether it's the footballers who are careful in their interviews, my opinion is that our mind will not be on what happened in 2014 in Serbia, but on the current match. How both teams come to this match and who our opponents are. The direct opponent is Serbia and we should focus on the game within the four-legged tie. Then, whatever happens is another problem because there are other matches. It's the start of the matches, an England that is very difficult for us, even for the Serbs. Both will play against each other, who will be disqualified, us or Serbia. But we should not see it with the political colors that the match has taken, but simply see it from a sporting perspective and the way both will appear on the field.
In Kosovo, a lot is experienced. Not all of Kosovo experiences it the same way, there are more and less influenced in this regard. We should be more careful about the Kosovar players who play with Albania, they are the ones who are more psychologically, emotionally burdened. So in this regard, we need to see, calm the team and see the positive sides and the opponent who is of quality, many players are teammates with them and we need to be very careful.
"The coach will put the best players on the field, regardless of what has happened in this period. My opinion is that those players need to be worked on psychologically, from a psychological point of view in the way they need to focus on the match, they are professionals and they play with teams that have a reputation in the international arena ," said Josa, among other things.
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