{"id":30179,"date":"2022-01-25T17:45:34","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T16:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=30179"},"modified":"2022-01-25T19:19:25","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T18:19:25","slug":"how-did-the-feud-between-duka-and-veliaj-kick-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/how-did-the-feud-between-duka-and-veliaj-kick-off\/","title":{"rendered":"How did the feud between Duka and Veliaj kick-off?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The race for the president of the Albanian Football Federation (FSHF) fueled a strong clash between incumbent president Armand Duka and the Mayor of Tirana, Erion Veliaj.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What led to the row?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On March 2, Armando Duka will run for a sixth consecutive term as the President of the Albanian Football Federation.<\/p>\n<p>But mayor Erion Veliaj sees this as \u201cunacceptable\u201d and revved up engines to find someone to replace Duka.<\/p>\n<p>Tirana City Hall owns 34% of the shares of the Tirana Football Club, part of the<br \/>\nTirana Regional Football Association. The latter holds the majority of the votes for the federation\u2019s president.<\/p>\n<p>Veliaj tried to remove Duka from FSHF by calling on the members of the Regional Association to vote Eduard Prodani as the new president.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe notary public is here. Let\u2019s sign. Even if Jesus and Mohammed ascend, never mind FIFA or UEFA, they won\u2019t be able to stop this\u201d, said Veliaj in a leaked audio recording revealed by FSHF, later authenticated by Veliaj.<\/p>\n<p>On January 23, one day ahead of the elections at the Tirana Regional Football Association, the capital\u2019s city hall announced that it had engaged a team of lawyers in order to take Armando Duka to SPAK.<\/p>\n<p>The following day, the Prosecution of Tirana confirmed it had launched an investigation into Duka for embezzlement and abuse of office.<\/p>\n<p>The elections concluded with the loss of the candidate endorsed by Veliaj, raising allegations that the process was rigged.<\/p>\n<p>As the feud endures, Veliaj warned to take other functionaries to court. FSHF addressed its concerns to FIFA, the highest governing body in football, claiming that politics are meddling with sports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The race for the president of the Albanian Football Federation (FSHF) fueled a strong clash between incumbent president Armand Duka and the Mayor of Tirana, Erion Veliaj. What led to the row? On March 2, Armando Duka will run for a sixth consecutive term as the President of the Albanian Football Federation. But mayor Erion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":30180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[270,294,295,296,151],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How did the feud between Duka and Veliaj kick-off? - Euronews Albania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/how-did-the-feud-between-duka-and-veliaj-kick-off\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How did the feud between Duka and Veliaj kick-off? - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The race for the president of the Albanian Football Federation (FSHF) fueled a strong clash between incumbent president Armand Duka and the Mayor of Tirana, Erion Veliaj. 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