Albanian football fans are famous for being very loud. When the national team plays, the whole stadium chants together. The team's biggest moment was reaching the Euro 2016 finals - their first time in a major tournament - and the whole country watched together in cafés and town squares.
Children grow up supporting one of the big Albanian club teams - KF Tirana, Partizani, Vllaznia. On a Saturday afternoon you'll see lots of red, white and blue scarves on the streets of Tirana. Football conversations carry on long after the match has ended.
Quite a few Albanian footballers also play for the national teams of other countries. Many Albanian families moved abroad for work over the past decades, so there are top players representing Switzerland, Belgium, Italy and more whose grandparents grew up in Albania or Kosovo. The double-headed eagle hand sign - made by crossing your thumbs - is sometimes flashed by these players when they score, to honour their heritage.
Like the rest of Europe, Albania is football-mad without needing a big stadium to enjoy it. A goal can be two backpacks. A pitch can be the schoolyard. The most important kit is a ball - and a friend on the other side ready for a kick-around.