Fatos Lala (born 8 April 1995) is an Albanian

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and

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player who plays as a

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for FSHF Sunday League club Dajti.Kamzës i mjaftojnë 120 sekonda për të mundur Mamurrasin

Career

Early career

Lala was born in

Kukës Kukës ( sq-definite, Kukësi) is a city in the Republic of Albania. The city is the capital of the surrounding municipality of Kukës and county of Kukës, one of 12 constituent counties of the republic. It spans and had a total population of 16 ...

in northern Albania near the border with

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, but 6 months after his birth his family moved to the capital

Tirana 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 ...

. He began playing football with a local amateur side called 22 Marsi before joining

KF Tirana Klubi i Futbollit Tirana (KF Tirana) is an Albanian football club based in the country's capital city, Tirana. The men's football club is part of the multi-disciplinary sports club SK Tirana, and is the most successful in Albania, having won 54 ...

at the age of 16 in 2011, playing for the under-17 side. between 2009 and 2011 he scored 25 goals in 25 games for the under-17 side before being promoted to the under-19 side where he played as a midfielder as opposed to his previous position as a striker, and he still managed to score 20 times in 32 games between 2011 and 2013. In the summer of 2013 he left

to join his first senior side, FK Gostima in the

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, the fourth tier of football in Albania. He had an injury plagued 2013−14 season and only managed to feature in 9 league games, scoring just once. In 2014, he signed his first professional contract with

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side

KS Kamza Football Club Kamza was a football club based in Kamëz, Albania. Founded on 10 September, the club has competed in the lower levels of Albanian football for much of its history, except for the 2011–12 season where they were promoted to the Ka ...

. Currently he plays for F.C Dajti .

References

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