One Albanian will speak English as fluently as any of the players called upon by Gareth Southgate for their World Cup qualifier.
Teenage striker Armando Broja was born and raised in Slough, 1,600 miles from Sunday's venue Tirana, and has been a Chelsea player since he was 10, spending this season on loan with Vitesse Arnhem. Broja, whose Albanian parents settled in England, won his fourth cap in Thursday’s 1-0 win against Andorra but meeting his ‘home’ country will be special on many levels. ‘I am British but also Albanian. Most of my family are still over there and it’s my blood,’ he says.