The President of the Albanian Football Federation (FSHF), Armand Duka, addressed journalists at a press conference today.
Among the many things that the Albanian football leader spoke about, the appointment of an Albanian coach to head the national team received a piece of attention at this conference.
Armand Duka said that among the Albanian coaches who was most recently closest to the Albanian national team was Besnik Hasi.
"I have actually offered the position of national team manager at least once to an Albanian coach, who was Besnik Hasi. In the last moments, when we were on the verge of finalizing the contract, Besnik withdrew because he was offered to be Anderlecht's coach. Afterwards, in all cases I have undoubtedly thought about it and I undoubtedly still think about it, but we will see," he said.
The Duke also spoke about Sylvinho, whose contract ends in July of this year.
"But the first thing is that I have offered the current coach to express his opinion if he has the will, energy and desire to continue. But then there are the conditions, if the parties are satisfied. This will happen before the friendly matches in June," Duka initially said about Sylvinho.
"I will wait very little. The first offer will be made to Silvinho and, if it is not finalized, we will obviously start the same process and it does not mean that I do not have some names in my head," he added.
Sylvinho was introduced as coach of the Albanian national team in January 2023.
With Sylvinho at the helm, the Albanian national team managed to qualify for EURO 2024, failing to make it past the groups, while also securing the 2026 World Cup "play-offs", when they were eliminated by Poland in the semi-finals./Express newspaper/
t7 live
