“The Manchester City Academy in Durres and the Football School aim to turn Durres into a destination for talent on a national and regional scale. We have received the exclusivity to be a center for the entire region, for the countries of the Balkans and beyond. And if there will be a second academy in the Balkans, the municipality of Durrës will be a partner. This opens another perspective. The parallel step is for us to set up our Durrës City group. It will be a nucleus that will develop in the future and as a team on its own,” said Rama.

The prime minister said that the Football Academy and School serve all clubs in Albania.

“The Academy is at the service of all the clubs that, based on the selection made by the Academy managers, take their athletes and they return to the clubs with the education and development of the talent that they have benefited from the Academy. If there are talents belonging to other clubs and Manchester City is interested in them, it holds direct talks with them”, said Rama.

The prime minister announced that the number of young people who are registered in the football system in Albania, in that system, which as Rama said, still needs to be shaped, and those who are registered in the European football system is staggering.

“There are over 100,000 young Albanians registered in European football systems. We believe that the talent in Albania, and in our entire national family, which must be supported and developed, constitutes a fantastic basis, not only for football, but as we learned from the final of the “Conferenca League” for Albania, its image, economy and tourism, said the prime minister.

The head of the government informed that in cooperation with the Football Association, there will be built football fields in every administrative unit./p.s./