I just saw this on NewsNow:

http://www.football-italia.net/10017...b-cardiff-city

Thomas Strakosha “made the right choice by going to Lazio, which is fortunate because he was about to join Cardiff City,” said the Albania international’s father.

The goalkeeper turned 22 last week and started for his country in last night’s 2-0 World Cup qualifying defeat to Italy.

“It’s all going very well at Lazio and he made the right choice by going there, which is fortunate, because Thomas was about to join Cardiff,” his father and fellow Albania international Foto Strakosha told Panorama Sport.

“We decided together to stick with Italy, where football is of a very high level and he’s done a brilliant job.

“I didn’t need to give him much advice, I just told him to stay calm to the end. He didn’t let himself be influenced by the fact he had important rivals ahead of him.”


Not a name I recognise - but if true he must have been an option to replace Tom Heaton in the summer of 2012. Instead we went with Joe Lewis and Eliott Parish behind Marshall.