Gjergji Dëma (born 7 August 1971) is a retired
Albania
Albania ( ; sq, Shqipëri or ), or , also or . officially the Republic of Albania ( sq, Republika e Shqipërisë), is a country in Southeastern Europe. It is located on the Adriatic and Ionian Seas within the Mediterranean Sea and shares ...
n international
football player.
Club career
Dema spent his Albanian career with
Flamurtari
Flamurtari FC is a professional football club based in Vlorë, Albania. The club plays in the Kategoria e Parë, which is the second tier of football in the country.
Founded in 1923, the club is one of the oldest in Albania, and it is also on ...
in the 1980s and 1990s, winning a league title in a team featuring fellow international players
Eqerem Memushi,
Kreshnik Çipi
Kreshnik Çipi (born 15 February 1958) is an Albanian retired football player and was a member of the Assembly of the Republic of Albania for the Democratic Party of Albania.
Football career Club
Çipi started out as a winger, moved to fullback ...
,
Rrapo Taho,
Sokol Kushta
Sokol Kushta (born 17 April 1964) is an Albanian retired football player, who was arguably one of his country's best players in the second half of the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s and one of the first to be allowed by the communist part ...
and
Agim Bubeqi
Agim Bubeqi (born 7 April 1963) is a retired Albanian footballer who played his entire professional career as a striker for Flamurtari Vlorë.
International career
He made his debut for Albania national football team, Albania in an April 1987 Eur ...
.
International career
He made his debut for
Albania
Albania ( ; sq, Shqipëri or ), or , also or . officially the Republic of Albania ( sq, Republika e Shqipërisë), is a country in Southeastern Europe. It is located on the Adriatic and Ionian Seas within the Mediterranean Sea and shares ...
in a December 1990
European Championship qualification defeat by
Spain
, image_flag = Bandera de España.svg
, image_coat = Escudo de España (mazonado).svg
, national_motto = ''Plus ultra'' (Latin)(English: "Further Beyond")
, national_anthem = (English: "Royal March")
, i ...
and earned a total of 10 caps, scoring no goals. His final international was a March 1997
FIFA World Cup qualification match against
Ukraine
Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv ...
.
Honours
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Albanian Superliga: 1
::
1991
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Albania – Championship Winning Teams
– RSSSF
References
External sources
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Gjergji Dëma
on Playerhistory.com
1971 births
Living people
Footballers from Vlorë
Albanian men's footballers
Men's association football defenders
Albania men's international footballers
Flamurtari FC players
NK Svoboda Ljubljana players
NK Rudar Velenje players
NK Slavija Vevče players
NK Beltinci players
NK Ljubljana players
NK Radomlje players
Albanian expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in Slovenia
Albanian expatriate sportspeople in Slovenia
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