“We know what we can and will be more supporters than with Copenhagen”

Drita – FCSB is Thursday evening, from 9:00 pm, in Pristina in the second leg of the preliminary round of the Europa League. On the National Arena, the red-blue managed a remontada, defeating 3-2 after being driven by 2-0.

It will be a terrible duel in Kosovo, given that FCSB is going through a great crisis. In addition, over 10,000 kosovars will put maximum pressure on Gigi Becali's team, a band that will not have the Romanian supporters. Based on the “protocol”, as there were no kosovars, there will be no Romanians on return.

6defeat has gathered FCSB in the last 8 matches in Superliga and European Cups. He only defeated Oil (1-0) and Drita (3-2), lost with Inter D “Esaldes (1-2), Shkendija (0-1 and 1-2), Lighthouse (1-2), Dinamo (3-4) and Slobozia (0-1)

Darius Olaru played in Pristina in September 2024 on the stadium where FCSB will evolve with Drita

The atmosphere will be electrifying on the “Fadil Vokrri” stadium on Thursday night, where the return between Drita and FCSB will be played. The arena has 13,980 seats. It is also used by the national team, so that in September 2024, when Romania played and defeated Kosovo in Pristina, score 3-0, in the group of the League of Nations, the match played all this stadium.

Then a single player from the red-blue gasket had minutes in the match, Darius Olaru, who entered the second, more precisely in the 86th minute. Two other footballers of Bucharest, Denis Alibec and Stefan Târnovanu, were unused reserves.

Târnovanu will be a holder between the goals, Olaru hopes and hopes he will be recovered in the first 11 in Kosovo, Alibec will be absent.

As a diverse fact, in November 2024, in Romania – Kosovo (0-3 at the green table), the whole of the players started after a dispute between Amir Rrahmani and Alibec, then Napoli's defender set the withdrawal of Kosovari players from the field. Disturbed by the fact that a group of ultra -Romanian ultras have chanted “Serbia, Serbia”.

“Light” – Drita suffered in the old Yugoslavia

On the arena that has a capacity of almost 14,000 seats, over 10,000 kosovars are announced. Basically, FC Drita brings with Shkendija, the “nightmare” of the recent red-blue date.

And Drita is the team of the ethnic Albanian in Kosovo, the champion of his country, forced to play in the capital, an hour away from his own city, Gjilan. Drita was founded in 1947 – the club's name comes from “Light” to Albanian. It was and is the team of Albanian ethnic.

Like North-Macedonians in Shkendija, Drita suffered in the Yugoslav regime, the club was abolished in 1952! Some players went to rivals in the city, Gnjilane Red Star. Drita was allowed to play only in the League of Kosovo province.

Against the background of the dissolution of Yugoslavia and political and race disputes, Albanian separatists formed the Football Federation of Kosovo, and Drita joined the new body.

4Champion titles have Drita, a Kosovo Cup and Super Cup

5,000 with Differdange, 9,000 with Copenhagen, over 10,000 with FCSB. Beat with the Danes!

Returning to the present, Drita is the champion of the Kosovar. In the first preliminary round of the Champions League, it was 1-0 and 3-2 with DIFFERDANGE. At the Priestina tour match there were about 5,000 kosovars in the stands.

In the preliminary round of UCL with Copenhagen (0-1 and 0-2), in the first leg, there were almost 9,000 supporters of Drita at the stadium. However, at the international matches of the club teams in Kosovo, the supporters join and support the respective band.

The fans of Drita are passionate

Now, given that Drita has a chance to fight for qualification, over 10,000 people are estimated. The nickname of Drita is understanding – intellectuals. Which it has from the end of the years “90, as in the team, besides the footballers, there were also writers, poets and politicians.

The “intellectuals” is also the name of Drita's gallery. The largest group of ultras in the country. The hooligans who are part of the gallery are feared both locally and in the capital.

On July 29, at the match with FC Copenhagen, as the ultra groups in the online environment, there were clashes and incidents between Drita and the Danish. One of the Nordics was injured after an altercation, later the police in Pristina intervening with tear gas.

In the perspective of the match with FCSB, the red-blue fans will not be present at the match, as the Kosovarians were not in Bucharest, considering the conflicting situations of recent years, both in Pristina and in Bucharest.

Zekirija Ramadani announces electrifying atmosphere in Pristina: “Supporters will be with us. More than with Copenhagen”

The coach of Drita, North-Macedonian Zekirija Ramadani (47 years old), a former player in Shkendija among others, a coach at the Kosovarilor champion in 2023, was a short period of the Saudi from Ohod, following the Romanian Augustin Chiriță to lead the band.

Coach Ramadani, Charalambous's opponent

“I personally invite you to watch the return match and you will be positively surprised by the match atmosphere and the songs of our fans. There will be no problems,” Ramadani replied when a Romanian journalist asked about the return match with FCSB, in the context of what happened in November 2024.

“How will the atmosphere be in Priestina?”, The coach by the GSP reporter was questioned. “We have the supporters next to us, who also support us at failures. They will be with us. What they can guarantee is that there will be more than at our match with Copenhagen.

The atmosphere will be festive, because the result gives us optimism and whatever can happen. We are proud of the fact that we are “intellectuals”, which is why we will give everything on the field because I do not think we will take three goals again and we will be able to score at least two, “Ramadani said.