Arben Arbëri (born 6 January 1964) is an

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n retired

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player who is known for winning the Albanian Golden Boot for being the top goalscorer of the 1986-87 Albanian Superliga with 14 goals.

Club career

Arbëri played primarily as a striker for

Tomori Berat Futboll Klub Tomori Berat is an Albanian football club based in the city of Berat. The club's home ground is the Tomori Stadium and they currently participate in the Kategoria e Dytë. History The sport of football was introduced to the city of ...

in Albania and

PAS Giannina PAS Giannina Football Club (), or with its full name Panipirotikós Athlitikós Síllogos Giánnina (, ''Panepirotic Athletic Club Giannina'') is a Greek professional Association football, football club based in the city of Ioannina, the capita ...

in Greece.

International career

He made his debut for

in an October 1989

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match away at

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and earned a total of 3 caps, scoring no goals. His final international was a May 1990 European Championship qualification match against

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Personal life

His older brother Theodhor Arbëri was also a footballer who played for Tomori Berat during the 1980s and his younger brother Klodian have also played for Tomori Berat amongst other teams in Albania, while he also briefly played in Slovenia with

NK Maribor Nogometni klub Maribor () is a Slovenian professional Association football, football club based in Maribor, Slovenia. It competes in the Slovenian PrvaLiga, the top tier of the Football in Slovenia#League system, Slovenian football league system ...

. His nephews Gersi and Polizoi are also footballers who currently play for Tomori Berat and

Flamurtari Vlorë Flamurtari Football Club is an Albanian professional football club based in Vlorë, Albania. The club plays in the Kategoria Superiore, which is the first tier of football in the country. Founded in 1923, the club is one of the oldest in Alba ...

respectively.

Honours

Individual * Albanian Superliga top scorer: 1986–87 * Albanian First Division top scorer: 1987–88

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* 1964 births Living people Sportspeople from Berat Footballers from Berat County Men's association football forwards Albanian men's footballers Albania men's international footballers FK Tomori Berat players PAS Giannina F.C. players Kategoria Superiore players Albanian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Greece Albanian expatriate sportspeople in Greece 20th-century Albanian sportsmen {{Albania-footy-forward-stub