Nijaz Lena becomes a coach, takes over the leadership of the Swiss team

2022-12-28 13:18:57, Sport CNA

After a rich and successful career, it was time to end it with the football played. Nijas Lena took her first steps in football in North Macedonia, from where she arrived in Albania. First, he wore the red and black jersey of Flamurtari, then tried on that of Teuta and Kukes.

The Albanian midfielder last played in Switzerland, where he left one career to start another. Lena proves himself as a head coach of FC Koniz in Group B of the First League in Switzerland at the age of 36, thus starting a new era in his life. All the lessons gained as a footballer, he will now pass on to the players he has in the team with a bright future ahead of him, coach Lena.

"After more than 20 years as a footballer, now is the moment to close this difficult but beautiful path! With football it is difficult, without it impossible", this is how Nijas Lena answers in an interview given to "Sport Ekspres" when asked about the impossibility of staying away from football after hanging his shoes on a nail.

“Kjo do të jetë eksperienca ime e parë si tranjer. Më pret shumë punë dhe sakrificë e madhe, por dashuria që kam për këtë sport shpresoj të më argëtojë dhe të jap emocionet që m’i dha si futbollist”, vazhdon 36-vjeçari nga Struga.

Në karrierën e tij të gjatë ka pasur mundësinë të punojë me shumë trajnerë të ndryshëm, që padyshim janë lënë gjurmët e tyre në formimin e tij. Por tre prej tyre kanë shërbyer si model për t’u ndjekur në rrugëtimin e tij të ri në karrierë.

“Kam patur disa tranjerë shumë të mirë në Superiore, por mund të them se do të doja një përzierje të Rubios, Maganit dhe Gjokës”, thotë Nijas Lena, i cili vijon: “Pa diskutim që autoriteti është primar, por unë do mundohem të jem i afërt, ”shok”, duke i ndihmuar për tu përmirësuar çdo ditë dhe të rrisin nivelin”.

In the end, Nijas Lena also shows how she came to be at the head of the FC Koning bench, an adventure which she officially starts on January 9. One meeting with the president of the club was enough and there was no need to think any longer.

"It was the president of the team, Ilir Bekaj, who contacted me a few months ago and came to meet me after a match I was playing by myself. The conversation was very simple, because our ideas about football matched so much that we didn't need a second meeting", the former Albanian footballer concludes his interview for "Sport Ekspres"./ Source: Sport Ekspres