Bruno Puja (born 20 January 2000) is an Albanian professional

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who plays as a

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for Albanian club Bylis.

Club career

Early career

Puja started his youth career at age 11 with hometown club

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. He joined the U-13 team on 1 September 2011. During the 2015–16 season he played for the U-19 team in Albanian Superliga U-19 group B.

Besa Kavajë

He made his professional debut at age 15 with Besa Kavajë under coach

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in the

2015–16 Albanian Cup 2015–16 Albanian Cup () was the sixty-four season of Albania's annual cup competition. KF Laçi are the most recent winners of the competition, that being their second Cup trophy. Ties are played in a two-legged format similar to those of Euro ...

match against Laçi on 16 September 2015, coming on as a substitute at half-time in place of Klajdo Arkaxhiu. The match finished in a 1–3 loss.

Career statistics

Club

International career

Following his professional debut with

in September 2015, Puja was immediately called up at

Albania national under-17 football team The Albania national under-17 football team represents Albania in international football at this age level in the FIFA U-17 World Cup and the UEFA European Under-17 Championship, as well as any other under-17 international football tournaments. I ...

by coach

Džemal Mustedanagić Džemal Mustedanagić (born 8 June 1955) is a Bosnian-Herzegovinian retired footballer and current manager of the Albania national under-16 football team. Playing career Club Born in Bosanski Novi, his playing career started in FK Sloboda Bosansk ...

to participate in the

2016 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualification The 2016 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualification was a men's under-17 football competition organised by UEFA to determine the 15 national teams joining the automatically qualified hosts Azerbaijan in the 2016 UEFA European Under-17 Champ ...

from 22 to 27 October 2015. He played two full 80-minute matches on two first match-days against Switzerland U17 and Netherlands U17, but Albania U17 lost both matches. For the closing match against Wales U17 he was an unused substitute and the coach Džemal Mustedanagić left his place to fellow goalkeeper Everest Braçe.Bruno Puja matches
at Soccerway

References

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Puja, Bruno 2000 births Living people Footballers from Kavajë Albanian men's footballers Albania men's youth international footballers Men's association football goalkeepers KF Besa Kavajë players KS Kastrioti players KF Bylis players Kategoria Superiore players Kategoria e Parë players