Albanian Salihi has his prayers answeredThe power of prayer has paid off for Albanian League side KF Tirana striker Hamdi Salihi.
The marksman had gone a month without hitting the net when club owner Refik Halili decided to take action and drafted in 30 Muslim priests to pray for the end of his barren spell.
Just 41 minutes into their next match with FK Partizani, Salihi found the target in a 3-2 win.
'Salihi is a born striker and the fact he had not scored for four weeks had blocked him mentally,' Halili said.'I think I lived up to my duty. God helped him score and Tirana to win.'
And now the end is near and so i face nanananana... Never did like that crappy song. But it's true nevertheless. Tomorrow in the wee hours of the morning we will be heading for the airport for the last time. I suppose it was too much to expect that I could have kept this going while getting ready to leave. So apologies for the lack of postings over the last weeks. This is post number 380 something so I suppose one post every two days is not a bad average. There were probably 380 more in my head or scribbled down on scraps of paper, but many of them are perhaps best left there. I suppose I should be penning - or typing - my final thoughts and reflections on two years in Tirana, but right now I don't have any. Maybe in a month or two though I might come back with something. Thanks to all of you who have read this blog - especially those of you who have become regulars. Thanks also for linking and thanks to all who left comments. As for the other stars of the blog, Bella now has h...
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"I think I lived up to my duty" said God. Added Halili: "God helped him score and Tirana to win."
In fact, Salihi had been praying on his own for the whole month, but apparently it didn't work. Ah, Salihi, when are you going to learn that God doesn't work during the holiday season? He needs vacations too. The 30 Muslim priests, well versed in inner workings of God, held they prayer in the first day when he was back in the office, and it worked like a charm, err... you know what I mean.
Before that, it was carried on the UEFA website and also on the Guardian website where it is attributed to Reuters.
A google news search on "Hamdi Salihi" will bring up the links.