Article by Eduard Apostol, Ionuţ Iordache – published on Wednesday, August 13, 2025, 13:42 / Updated Wednesday, August 13, 2025 13:44
The “Fadil Vokkri” Arena (13,980 seats) is prepared for official tonight workouts before Drita – FCSB (Thursday, 9:00 pm, Priestina)the reporters of the Sports Gazette have taken the pulse of the arena where the Romanian champion wants to provide their tickets for the Europa League play-off, the Group of Conference League
I inspected the lawn from Pristina before the official training of Elias Charalambous, which will be tonight from 6:00 pm, an hour later in Bucharest. At the time when the red-blue band was to land in Pristina and contact the capital at 34 degrees Celsius, I went to the Fadil Vokrri Arena in the center of the city of 215,000 souls.
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Drita-FCSB starts from the minimum advantage that Romanians have after the tour match, 3-2 on the National Arena, the two bands fighting for qualifying in the Europa League play-off
10Thousands of kosovo supporters are expected on Thursday evening at the match
The first pictures from the stadium where the fire return between Drita and FCSB is played
The first impact? The lawn looks good, really good. Two employees of the arena robotau at dawn to trim the grass. They saw their jobs, being careful about their work, especially since tonight the two official workouts are provided. First, FCSB, then Drita.
The smell of freshly trimmed grass enters your nostrils when you draw your soul on one of the seats of the arena, to beware of the outside burn. At noon, the sun burns in a joy.
Another detail notified on the stadium in the heart of the country. Unlike Skopje's “cot” (details here), it is clean in the stands. You really do not see misery at all, although the arena retains its archaic isa.
An advantage for the return from Pristina would be that the stands are quite far from the actual land, which is also surrounded by an athletics track, on the typical stadiums in the communist bloc. So Gigi Becali's players should absorb the pressure that will come from the stands.
“SimpKtualët” announces an incandescent atmosphere
Last week, Ballkani defeated Shamrock Rovers, score 1-0, in the preliminary round of Conference League also on this stadium. One who is the house and the capital team, FC Priestina, but also of the national team. In September last year, Romania defeated Kosovo, score 3-0, in the League of Nations.
A single FCSB player evolved on “Fadil Vokkri”, this is Darius Olaru, in the minutes of the match. The red-blue captain did the move with the team, to see if he will be able to be able to play tomorrow night.
The hosts will be frantically encouraged by over 10,000 people, as Kosovari estimates.
The FCSB gallery does not move, organized, will be present a few supporters, around the red-blue delegation, not in the lawn.
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.
We have supporters next to us, who support us at failures. The atmosphere will be festive, because the result gives us optimism and whatever can happen. We are proud of the fact that we are the “intellectuals”, so 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
Zekirija Ramadani, trainer drita
