Journalist Qeqa Krelani harshly criticizes Edon Zhegrova, who is missing from Kosovo against Switzerland and Sweden

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Express newspaper
04/09/2025 22:38

Sports journalist Qeqa Krelani has harshly criticized Kosovar footballer Edon Zhegrova.

In a lengthy reaction, Krelani harshly criticized Zhegrova for his absence from Kosovo for the two matches against Switzerland and Sweden.

Her full reaction, without intervention:

As much as Argentine journalists are interested in how many Ballons d’Or Messi wins with Barcelona, ​​I’m just as interested in what Zhegrova does at Juventus, how many goals Muriqi scores against Barcelona and Real Madrid, or how many titles Rrahmani wins with Napoli.

I am not a journalist for Serie A, nor for La Liga, nor for the Premier League.

I am exclusively a journalist for the Kosovo Representative Office.

I only care what you do with the Kosovo jersey. How you treat it. The Kosovo jersey. What results do you give Kosovo?

Yes. I want the success of every human being. But that’s another topic.

Yes. Transfers to Juventus, Napoli, Barcelona, ​​etc. should be considered of great interest for Kosovo… but where is Kosovo when our players are asking for permission to leave the training camp because they need to prepare for their clubs?!

Messi, world champion – flew from one continent to another except for a friendly match for Argentina.

Argentine journalists told him: “You’re not even 30% as good as Maradona” “You’re Spanish, you’re not one of us.”

When did they accept that it was theirs?

Except when I win the World Cup for Argentina.

Did anyone care how many Ballons d’Or he had with Barcelona? No! Because for them, Argentina was above every club. And I believe even above Barcelona.

“We want the World Cup sir, not the Ballon d’Or. Here we are in Argentina, we are not in Barcelona.”

Here we are in Kosovo, not in Italy, not in Spain, not even in Turkey. I don’t care.

Kosovo is Kosovo. Just as Argentina is big for Argentine journalists, Italy for Italian journalists, Portugal for Portuguese journalists, Spain for Spaniards… For me, Kosovo is Kosovo and it is bigger than Naples, Juventus, Spain, Turkey, India, the whole world combined.

If the team had been more important than the national team, the footballers would have changed national teams, not teams.

I don’t care how much Juventus, Mallorca, Napoli, Galatasaray, etc. win. I’m not a fan, I’m a journalist.

Your multimillion-dollar contracts don’t pay my monthly bills, my daily bread, my tuition…

As a journalist of this Republic, I feed only on the success of Kosovo. Only the results for Kosovo are my business. I am interested in what these people have to do with the Kosovo jersey. They only see the benefit of foreign teams’ jerseys for their own coffers.

Zhegrove’s father said: “My son never sleeps when he comes to play for Kosovo, he’s always the first to get on the plane.”

And where is the boy today, when Kosovo has the two biggest matches in history?

With 20 million transfers, even a private plane is not a problem – Pandev of Macedonia paid for every collection.

Sweden’s Isak signed a world-record deal with Liverpool on the same day that Zhegrova signed for Juventus. Isak will play at the “Fadil Vokrri” for Sweden while Zhegrova will not be available for Kosovo’s two most important matches.

The reason? “He hasn’t played in 9 months, he needs time.”

Then why was he invited to the list, and then withdrew within 24 hours?! Don’t make movies.

No club can stop him from playing for the National Team when the dates are set by FIFA. Even if you are in the stands with him, you show here how much you care for Kosovo.

All Juventus players have gone to their national teams – injured and not injured. Only here, the Messi of Kosovo has asked to retire in order to get in shape for Juventus. This only happens in Kosovo – that the player comes when he wants, and doesn’t come when he doesn’t want.

It never occurs to me that our players should be withdrawn from the training camp to get ready for foreign teams.

I say it again: Zhegrova is the best player in the last 50 years in Kosovo.

But he is the most unserious player, without sportsmanship, without discipline, and he puts the club’s interest doubly above the interest of Kosovo. The scenes with the Kosovo flag on Instagram, this and many others, are only in Hollywood movies.

Finally… for those who think there is more to Juventus – you are very wrong. A 5-star mistake.

His talent doesn’t fail in Barcelona or Real Madrid! It’s just his mindset and the way he feels about it that fails. I hope Italy shows him that he can only walk on the ground with his feet.

And I hope, I hope, that one day our players will ask permission from the clubs because they have historic matches for Kosovo. And not the opposite happens – asking permission from Kosovo because they want to prepare for the clubs.

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