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My cleaning mother, working father! Stories like Florian Mark's that inspire the underdog

My cleaning mother, working father! Stories like Florian Mark's that

Florian Marku today holds the title of world champion, but once it was quite difficult for him as well as for every Albanian who emigrated some time ago.

The boxer who raised the Albanian flag everywhere in the world confessed today at the ceremony dedicated to him in the Prime Minister after defending the title of champion in "Air Albania", how he got here.

Marku said that this achievement was a promise given to his mother so that she would no longer be forced to work as a cleaner, but also to his father who worked as a manual laborer to support the family.

Read the full confession of Mark, who moreover states that he has never rejected the Albanian flag and the message it gives to young people:

My cleaning mother, working father! Stories like Florian Mark's that

I was born in Lushya and at the age of 7 we fled to Thessaloniki. In Lushnja I did taekwondo, while in Thessaloniki I started football. I played football for a few years, but I wasn't very good because I was a person who wanted to play for myself more and I changed sports, I joined boxing.

I don't come from a rich family. Both my parents worked side jobs in Albania. My mother also worked as a cleaner, but when I was little I told her a few words: Listen to my mother, a few years will pass and you will never have to work again as long as your son is alive! And a few years passed and thank God she never had to work again!

I started my life in Greece, I was declared champion of Greece many times. That I have never thrown down the Albanian flag. I had many options, in Greece, in Austria. In Greece we were without papers.

They invited me to England, come because you will have everything ready, house, car and gym. When I got to England, everything was a sham. I went and met promoters, but no one believed. Then I found someone and filled his mind.

You don't know what I've been through in my life to get to where I am.

But the great love to reach where I am has made me never give up. Therefore, my message to all young people is: Never give up!

My cleaning mother, working father! Stories like Florian Mark's that

Prime Minister Edi Rama today honored the sportsman with the large Cordon with Star of Public Appreciation.