(Archive) 1947! The 3rd National Football Championship!

Year, 1947 Along with Vllaznina, 17 November, Flamurtar, Red Star of Durres, Union of Elbasan, Dinamo of Korce, Schiponje of Gjirokastra and Tomor of Berat, a new member of parliament, the Partisan of the People's Army, who in friendly meetings has won a convincing victory against the champions of Shkodran and Tirana. And he will prove this in the best way during this championship. Vllaznia exploded from the beginning with a fast pace: he scored 9 goals in Berat against Tomorri and the same in Gjirokaster against Shqiponje. And when they beat Shkoder Partizan 2-1, it seems that they aim to be declared national champions for the third time in a row. November 17 starts so badly that there is nowhere to go for a contender, when it loses 5-1 to Flamurtari and even more further defeated in Korce 6-0. The Korcars have reawakened, and this year we play under the name Dinamo. They win 3-1 against Flamurtari, draw 1-1 with Partizan, beat Shqiponje 9-0 and, as we said above, 6-0 in Korce on November 17. Between the breaks of the championship, Partizan won twice in Tirana against the well-known team Partizan i Beograd (1-0 and 4-2), the Yugoslavian team that includes famous football players in Europe. In the other weeks, Vllaznia took two points with Yllin e cuq in Durres (1-0), beat badly on November 17 in Shkoder 6-0, another negative result for Tirana, tied with Dinamo Korce 0-0 and leads the table of classification followed by Dinamo and Partizan, and with a significant separation from the other teams. Now let's stop at the last stage of this championship. Vllaznia, Dinamo Korcare and Partizani have 26, 24 and 17 points, respectively. Vllaznia, the match played in Gjirokaster with Shqiponje, wins 2-0. At the moment, it becomes uncatchable by Dinamo, which loses with Partizan 1-3. However, Shkodran is still not the champion. Partizan, who defeated Vllaznine 2-1 in the return match, really has 17 points, yes, due to the international matches, there are 6 more games to play, so 12 possible points, which can lead to the quota of 29 points. , I see him on the champion's pedestal. And so it happens. Partizani bursts into a sprint in the last kilometers of the championship: defeats consecutively on November 17, 8-0; The Red Star of Durres 7-2; Flagurtarin Vlora 3-0; Eagles 6-0 in Gjirokaster. Thus, Vllaznia has 28 points, Partizani 27 points, but there is also a match against Shqiponje, this time in Tirana. Gjirokastrites, it seems, see Davane as lost and do not appear at all, thus Partizan, suddenly unremembered, winning this match for the opponent's non-appearance, is declared champion for the first time, stealing the cup from the hands of Shkodran, who remain stunned by this surprising epilogue. Champions! But who was "Partizani", this newly formed team that managed to become the champion of the country? After a large number of friendly meetings that he held during 1946 in Tirana and later in other cities, Partizani waited for March 16, 1947 to make his debut in official activities: the national championship. Some circumstances caused him not to hold the meeting in the first year of its creation (where the lot was so tight against Vllaznisa and even more so in Shkoder). So his first match was the one a week later, in the capital on the field of Shallvare with the representative of Berat, Tomor. Partizan in its composition that day and later activated skilled footballers such as: B. Fagu, I . Pelingu, Xh. Demneri, H. Sakici, T. Baci, Mr. Gjinali, H. Bakalli, H. Tafmizi, Mr. Lisi, etc. It was a quite hit football complex. The strength, style, harmony and especially the efficiency of which all the teams in the competition proved one after the other. It was only the reigning champion Vllaznia that achieved a victory (Partizan's first and only loss), and Dinamo Korce that managed a draw. Other matches (14) were victories, even most with high numbers: historic and indelible ones against November 17, 8-0, against Shqiponje, 6-0, etc. Thus, Partizan crowned the first step in its sports life with complete triumph. He would take the second step in the following championship in 1948, where the formula was changed again, and which we will talk about in the following article "Archive, 4th Football Championship". ___________________ "Sports Vision / Hour of Champions "History of football" / house "November 8" – Tirana, 1978 / S. Kellici / p. 72-73-74 / Popular Sport, July 30, 1985 / p. 3