🇦🇱 Inside the Hermit Kingdom - Football Stories from Stalinist Albania 🇦🇱 Buy - pitchpublishing.co.uk/shop/inside-he… Read an extract - theguardian.com/football/artic… Listen - audioboom.com/posts/8475304-…

#PartizaniTirana v #DinamoTirana, Qemal Stafa, #Tirana 1985 - The Tribuna - main stand - where privileged #Albanians watched their football. Many #ColdWar tales are captured in my tome; Inside The Hermit Kingdom: Football Stories from Stalinist Albania. 👇 pitchpublishing.co.uk/shop/inside-he…

Fussball Geekz - 🇦🇱 Inside the Hermit Kingdom: Football Stories from Stalinist Albania podcast 🇦🇱 The Genesis, the big picture, and the legacy. Click to listen. 🇦🇱 🇦🇱 🇦🇱 🇦🇱 🇦🇱 youtu.be/YNys8XxnE3k?si…

Read my #Substack introduction to my book, Inside the Hermit Kingdom. Some previously untold 'reveals' about the genesis of the book. Click link👇 pitch_mag Substack Pitch Publishing 📚 Sports Books open.substack.com/pub/pitchmag/p…

🤍❣️#Ajax 🇳🇱 fans converge on old #WembleyStadium for their #EuropeanCup Final date with 💚💚#Panathinaikos 🇬🇷 in June 1971. AFC Ajax Panathinaikos F.C. #DeGodenzonen #ITrifylli Ajax Life Panathinaikos

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𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐂𝐊 | INSIDE THE HERMIT KINGDOM by Fussball Geekz 🇦🇱 Charts the history of Albanian football from 1945 to 1991, when the country was ruled by modern Europe's most brutal and oppressive regime. Pitch Publishing 📚 Sports Books 🛒 stanchionbooks.com/products/insid…

The brilliant Bebeto🇧🇷, pictured during his hugely successful spell with Deportivo de La Coruña 🇪🇸. The boy from #Bahia endeared himself to fans of #OsBrancoazuis scoring 86 competitive goals in 131 games between 1992 & 1996. RC Deportivo Seleção Brasileira #RCDeportivo #Galicia

My chat with 80s&90sFootball ⚽ curator, Michael Hamlen. youtu.be/EaQr0JodfSw?si…

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