Every year when the elections in the Albanian Football Federation are held, Armand Duka wears the "Grandfather" costume and promises gifts. This time, full of pomp, at the end-of-year gala evening, the president who has 6 terms at the head of the federation promised to distribute 3 million euros to Albanian clubs, which according to him are suffering from a financial crisis.
Next year, within June, Armand Duka must organize elections for the next president and, although everyone who votes is his "employee", subordinate or buttonholed long before the vote takes place, he still doesn't feel safe and promises money.
But the question is: why do we have clubs in financial crisis after 24 years of Duka being at the helm of football? When the championship led by Duka has no credibility, when the clubs are bankrupt and when a sustainable solution has not been found for more than two decades, then what is the merit of the president who will seek a seventh term?
Will these 3 million euros be distributed to the presidents who have the right to vote, or to the clubs? If it is for the clubs, how will it give the money to Tirana, for example, when all its accounts are blocked? How much money will it give to Partizan, which officially says it is not in crisis? How much money will it give to Lushnja, which is a municipal club, and is it allowed for an NGO to give money to a state-owned enterprise?
There are many question marks over the 3 million euros that Duka promised, but this is not the first time. In the last three terms, he has promised the same thing and the result has been: poorer clubs, fewer fans in the stadium and more servility of the federation on television.
