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Mikel Janku
Mikel Janku (25 December 1941 – 10 January 2019) was an Albanian retired association football, football player, who was a Goalkeeper (association football), goalkeeper for Partizani Tiranë and the Albania national football team, Albania national team between 1962–1969 and 1964–1967, respectively. Club career Janku was trained from 1958 as a helicopter pilot in Rostov-on-Don, Rostov, Soviet Union, and played for army club Partizani on his return to Albania. International career He made his debut for Albania national football team, Albania in a May 1964 FIFA World Cup qualification match away against the Netherlands national football team, Netherlands and earned a total of 9 caps, scoring no goals. His final international was a May 1967 UEFA Euro 1968 qualifying, European Championship qualification match against Yugoslavia national football team, Yugoslavia. Personal life Janku later became a sports journalist for Sport Express and died in January 2019. Honours *Albanian Su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tiranë
Tirana ( , ; aln, Tirona) is the capital and largest city of Albania. It is located in the centre of the country, enclosed by mountains and hills with Dajti rising to the east and a slight valley to the northwest overlooking the Adriatic Sea in the distance. Due to its location at the Plain of Tirana and the close proximity to the Mediterranean Sea, the city is particularly influenced by a Mediterranean seasonal climate. It is among the wettest and sunniest cities in Europe, with 2,544 hours of sun per year. Tirana was founded as a city in 1614 by the Ottoman Albanian general Sylejman Pasha Bargjini and flourished by then around the Old Mosque and the ''türbe''. The area that today corresponds to the city's territory has been continuously inhabited since the Iron Age. It was inhabited by Illyrians, and was most likely the core of the Illyrian Kingdom of the Taulantii, which in Classical Antiquity was centred in the hinterland of Epidamnus. Following the Illyrian Wars it wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
