{"id":80976,"date":"2026-03-05T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/?p=80976"},"modified":"2026-03-05T08:53:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T08:53:06","slug":"the-story-that-began-with-a-draw-in-front-of-17000-spectators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/the-story-that-began-with-a-draw-in-front-of-17000-spectators\/","title":{"rendered":"The story that began with a draw in front of 17,000 spectators"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The friendly match considered historic between the Kosovo national team and Haiti, which was the first international match under FIFA monitoring, took place on March 5, 2014, and ended with a score of 0\u20130.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Olympic Stadium \u201cAdem Jashari\u201d in Mitrovica, which had taken on the appearance of a European stadium, was the arena of the first historic international match of the Kosovo national team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The home team showed more from their game in the first half. The beginning was influenced by emotions, but as the minutes passed, they began to appear as a stable team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The \u201cDardanians\u201d did not stop fighting; they applied pressure, dominated the first half, and created many chances, but the goal was missing. The home side started the second half even more strongly, in a continuous attempt to build actions that would punish Haiti.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The visiting players managed to calm the game somewhat for a period, but the Kosovars quickly regained offensive dominance on the field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The efforts of the footballers representing Kosovo continued until the referee\u2019s final whistle, but the goal did not come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More than 17,000 fans were present in the stadium to follow this historic match, while the main leaders of the state of Kosovo were also present, including the president, the prime minister, and the speaker of parliament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The friendly match considered historic between the Kosovo national team and Haiti, which was the first international match under FIFA monitoring, took place on March 5, 2014, and ended with a score of 0\u20130. The Olympic Stadium \u201cAdem Jashari\u201d in Mitrovica, which had taken on the appearance of a European stadium, was the arena of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":80977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[299],"tags":[7379,1787,1151,7711],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80976"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80978,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80976\/revisions\/80978"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}