Luan Vukatana (born 13 January 1959) is an
Albanian retired
football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...
midfielder.
Club career
Vukatana joined the senior team of
Vllaznia Shkodër at age 16 and won 2 league titles and three domestic cups with the club. With Roland Luçi, he scored a "passed penalty" goal in a 1981 Albanian Cup trashing of
KS Pogradeci
KS Pogradeci ( sq, Klubi Sportiv Pogradeci) is a professional football club based in Pogradec, Albania. The club plays in the Kategoria e Dytë, which is the third tier of football in the country.
History
The club was founded in 1932 with name K ...
. In 2009, Vukatana was chosen in a best ever Vllaznia XI in the history of the club.
International career
He made his debut for
Albania in a September 1982
European Championship qualification match away against
Austria and earned a total of 8 caps, scoring no goals. His final international was another European Championship qualification match, in November 1983 against
West Germany.
Honours
*
Albanian Superliga
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1978
Events January
* January 1 – Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747 passenger jet, crashes off the coast of Bombay, killing 213.
* January 5 – Bülent Ecevit, of Republican People's Party, CHP, forms the new government of Turkey (42nd go ...
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1983
The year 1983 saw both the official beginning of the Internet and the first mobile cellular telephone call.
Events January
* January 1 – The migration of the ARPANET to Internet protocol suite, TCP/IP is officially completed (this is consid ...
Albania - Championship Winning Teams
- RSSSF
*Albanian Cup
The Albanian Cup ( sq, Kupa e Shqipërisë) is the main "knockout" competition in Albanian football. The competition started in 1939 as Kupa e Mbretit (English:"The King's Cup"). Just after a year the cup was suspended as the Second World War st ...
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:: 1979
Events
January
* January 1
** United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the ''International Year of the Child''. Many musicians donate to the ''Music for UNICEF Concert'' fund, among them ABBA, who write the song ...
, 1981
Events January
* January 1
** Greece enters the European Economic Community, predecessor of the European Union.
** Palau becomes a self-governing territory.
* January 10 – Salvadoran Civil War: The FMLN launches its first major offensiv ...
, 1987
File:1987 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes after leaving the Port of Zeebrugge in Belgium, killing 193; Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashes after takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport, k ...
References
External links
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1959 births
Living people
Footballers from Shkodër
Albanian men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
Albania men's international footballers
KF Vllaznia Shkodër players
Kategoria Superiore players
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