Safet Berisha

Safet Berisha
Personal information
Full name Safet Berisha
Date of birth (1949-04-19)19 April 1949
Place of birth Durrës, Albania
Date of death 19 October 2016(2016-10-19) (aged 67)
Playing position Centre back
Youth career
-1965 Lokomotiv Durrës
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1965-1968 Lokomotiv Durrës
1968–1983 Partizani Tirana
National team
1968-1971 Albania U23
1970-1981 Albania 21 (0)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.


Safet Berisha (11 November 1949 – 19 October 2016) was an Albanian football player who played for Lokomotiv Durrës and Partizani Tirana as well as the Albanian national team, where he earned 20 senior caps.[1][2]

Career

Early career

Berisha was raised in Durrës by his adoptive parents, which is where he joined the local side Lokomotiv Durrës as a youth player.

In 1992 he emigrated to Italy along with his family, firstly living in Bari then moving to Arezzo where he worked as an ambulance driver.[3]

Honours

Partizani Tirana

References

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