The Tirana Sentinel
Squad28 Sep 2026
A fracture rules Freddy Álvarez out for 72 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Tirana will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match23 Sep 2026
Tirana through in the cup
A 3‑0 win over Luftëtari, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Visar Bekaj stands alone
7 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
No sign of nerves from Mateo Deda at 17 — 8.03
The hardest thing about being 17 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Mateo Deda did not need any: 8.03, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Age has not caught Erando Karabeci yet — 8.04
At 38 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.04 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Squad28 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Tirana
Freddy Álvarez and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Serge Tabékou wants to go home
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Tirana can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
The terraces28 Sep 2026
One of their own: Emiljano Mihana
He is 18 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Match26 Sep 2026
Tirana come up short against Egnatia Rrogozhinë
Egnatia Rrogozhinë left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
In brief
- Match Emiljano Mihana at the heart of a fast Tirana start
- Player ratings A masterclass from Henry Marku
- Player ratings The game went through Naser Dini — 6.65