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Albania to play friendly versus Sweden in threshold of “Germany 2024” European Championship

TIRANA, January 26 /ATA/ The Albanian national football team will play a friendly match versus Sweden. The Albanian Football Association reached an agreement with the Swedish Association for this match to be played on March 25, 2024 at the “Friends Arena” stadium in Stockholm, Sweden, while the time remains to be determined.

This friendly match is part of the preparations for the European “Germany 2024”, while the Albanian Football Association is working to formalize another friendly for March.

In regard to Sweden, this will be the sixth time that the two teams will play against each other. In the past, Albania and Sweden have played only one friendly match that the red and blacks won with a score 2-1.

While the other challenges have been valid for the qualifiers of the World Championship, where Sweden has won three matches and one match has ended in a 0-0 draw.

Albania had a very good qualifying edition and ended it in the first place in Group E, ensuring participation in the finals of “Germany 2024”, where it will play versus Italy, Croatia and Spain./p.s./