Like never before the albanian team toward Skopje is accompanied by a private security company.

National football teams are preparing for their last qualifying matches in order to represent their country on the football pitch in coming June, for the 2018 World Cup in Russia. Some have already qualified and some are fighting for their chance in the playoff matches. One team still fighting for their chance is Albania, currently third among Group G with 12 points, 3 points higher than Israel that is fourth. The Albanian national football team won on Saturday against Lichtenstein 2-0 to a match completely dominated by Albania, giving first victory to coach Panuçi with his first match with Albania. But on tomorrow is a, multifaceted challenge, the match with Macedonia, because apart from sports competition, are foreseen even incidents with nature nationalistic. The match between Macedonia and Albania, scheduled for September 5, will be played in Strumica and not in the capital of Macedonia, Skopje. The fears of nationalistic incidents has forced the Albanian Football Federation (FSHF) to take unprecedented measures for the safe. Albania team has traveled toward Skopje and like never before, they are accompanied by a private security company contracted by FSHF, who will oversee every player in the Macedonia, that is a neighboring country with Albania. "There is a convoy with the police force that accompanies us, but also a van with private security forces, that will accompany the team both at the residence in Skopje and Strumica",- said for Super Sport the Head of Public Relations Sector in FSHF, Gert Çarcani. After accommodated in Skopje, in Monday morning the Albanian national football team has traveled to Strumica. The match against Macedonia is considered to be a “small Albanian derby,” This is due to the fact that Macedonia has called up four ethnic Albanians to the team, while Albania has called up one player who is an ethnic Albanian, but he born in Ohrid, Macedonia. The Red and Black pulled off wins against Israel, Macedonia and Liechtenstein but fell to Spain and Italy who currently lead the group, in first and second. In the remaining matchs, starting with that on Macedonia on Tuesday, there will be enough to draw for third place, as the remaining matches with Italy and Spain expect to win points are minimal. In the match with Macedonia, the victory of a 3-point lead would lead the Albanian team to the 15-point quota, a historic achievement by the representative red and black, who could never accumulate more than 13 points at a group elimination stage, for the European Championship or the World Cup. After their matches against Liechtenstein and Macedonia, albanian team for 2018 World Cup qualifying campaign, will come to an end after playing Spain and Italy in October.