“We didn’t even know each other.” Samir Ujkani is thinking back to March 2014 when a makeshift Kosovo squad, largely thrown together from unglamorous corners of central Europe and Scandinavia, convened to face Haiti for the country’s first official game.
He was a rarity: a player with Serie A experience between the posts for Palermo and 20 caps for Albania, who was willing to bet on what has become one of international football’s great success stories.
