Labyrinth!

In the photo, a group of Labinot players can be seen, immediately after the match with Partizan in Tirana. Immediately after they were declared champions in mathematics. The most sensational but also the strangest football championship and season. Albania with Hope and the National Team in the most beautiful moments of history, but without any Labinot player! A team that is declared champion, breaking the hegemony of traditional names, champions of the country, but also with an extraordinary luck. The only championship when, as soon as a point was lost somewhere and thus the first place was endangered for the leader, mathematically, on the same day, the followers left points! It was the year when Partizan recorded two historic defeats 0-3 against Naftëtari with ten men without a goalkeeper and 2-5 against Luftëtari, even after leading 2-0 or when Vllaznia lost in Shkodër 0-1 on July 31 and was relegated! The record of a goalkeeper, who conceded a goal for the last time in the 13th week (1-1 with Luftëtari in Gjirokastër) and conceded again after a full 1037 minutes on May 13, but a goal that does not spoil the work at all because it was the day when the Champion was announced! A completely unknown striker, Zyber Bega who came…from nowhere, the second phase, like no one else scores only winning goals, six in six games but which have as great values as winning a championship! As symbolically placed in the photo, the first is the goalkeeper Bujar Gogunja and the last is Zyber Bega, names that even today immediately come to mind when you remember the 1983-1984 season. Without a doubt, nothing would have been achieved without the work of trainers Jorgaqi and Stringa, but also without the sweat of Lunik, Tafan, Asllani, Deli, Agalli, Staçen, Popa, Lleshi, Mitrollari, Rama, that is, all those wonderful boys who made up the team very charming of Elbasan labinot in 1984!