Agim cana biography of george
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Agim Vinca
Part Two
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…the First, Second and Third Yugoslavia1 until the end of the twentieth century. This journey…now I finished the gymnasium and went to Skopje to study Law. I didn’t like it, I felt strange. I didn’t even had the financial conditions and I decided to work as a teacher for one year in order to survive. Yes, I made the first travel from Skopje to Kaçanik, the street of course was not paved and had big holes, and since I was sitting on the last seats of the bus, the back wheels of the bus fell in those deep holes on the street and my head crashed against the roof of the bus. This is how that journey was, it lasted two hours. I arrived, then I made part of the street on foot, I went to the school, I started my job as a teacher, I stayed there for one year, I mean I practically lost one year, yes I lost one year, but it was a lifetime experience, a lifetime experience.
Then in September I passed five e
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Lorik Cana: Albania’s Best
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Alas, poor Lorik - Cana has gone from Kosovo refugee to a Sunderland hero
By COLIN YOUNG
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Captain courageous: Lorik Cana has suffered off-the-pitch trials
Lorik Cana may be setting the world alight at Sunderland, but life has not always been easy for the Barclays Premier League's first Albanian footballer.
Steve Bruce's £5million signing from Marseille has made such an impression on his new boss, that he named him the new club captain last week and announced he is convinced his no-nonsense, whole-hearted approach to the game will win him cult status on Wearside.
Cana likes a tackle almost as much as Sunderland fans like a man who likes a tackle.
Adoration is nothing new to the golden boy and captain of the Albania national side, who dated former Miss Kosovo Universe Zana Krasniqi and whose image adorns enormous advertising billboards in Tirana.
But as he comes to terms with his new surroundings in the North East, the one-time target of Real Madrid and Arsenal h