Kliton Bozgo (born 5 December 1971) is a retired Albanian

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Playing career

Club

During his career he played for both

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n football giants Olimpija and

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. He made a big impact in 1. SNL, especially in Maribor, where he is still regarded as one of the best forwards to ever play for the club. Overall, he scored a total of 110 goals for the ''Violets''. He was the best scorer of Slovenian League twice. This was in the 1999–2000 season (24 goals) and in the 2004–05 season (18 goals). In the 1999–2000 season he also played for Maribor in the elite

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. In total he has played 207 matches in Slovenian first league, scoring 109 goals in the process.

International

He made his debut for

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in a February 1993

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match against

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in Tirana and earned a total of 12 caps, scoring no goals. His final international was a February

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match against

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Managerial career

During his time in Mura 05 he took the role of the assistant coach of

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. He joined Osmanović as assistant coach at

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in 2013 upon his return from Austria, where he was player/manager of Union Gamlitz. After an unsuccessful fight for survival, Osmanović was replaced by

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before the start of the 2013–14 season in the second tier. Šimundža, a former teammate of Bozgo during the 1999–2000 season, quickly left Aluminij and took the reins at Maribor after they parted company with

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, thus giving Bozgo a chance as interim manager in Kidričevo. But on 10 October Aluminij announced Robert Pevnik as Šimundža's successor and Bozgo stayed on as his assistant until the end of the season. After he left the club he returned to management with SV Sachsenburg in 2015 and in January 2016 he started a new chapter with SV Kaindorf in the Austrian Gebietsliga. He was replaced by

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in April 2018.Trainerwechsel beim SV Kaindorf an der Sulm
– Mein Bezirk

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