Albanian football has been scarred by murky defections, criminal gangs and match-fixing scandals. Now, backed by 50,000 fans, they have risen from obscurity
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MATT BARLOW: Albania have fuelled hope in a country with a passion for football but held back for generations, isolated from the world by the policies of Enver Hoxha's Stalinist regime.