Rijat Shala ( Serbo-Croat: ''Rijat Šala''; born 26 July 1983) is a Swiss

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of Kosovar

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descent who most recently played for Swiss lower league club AS Breganzona.

Club career

He spent the 2007–08 season with

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side

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, making his club debut on a

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match that won 2–1 to A.C. Siena, on 29 August 2007. He however did not manage to gain a single first team appearance, being quickly relegated into the reserves, and in July 2008 Cagliari released him from the squad. He played for

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club

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in 2008. In mid-2009 he left for ''Prima Divisione''

Novara Novara (, Novarese: ) is the capital city of the province of Novara in the Piedmont region in northwest Italy, to the west of Milan. With 101,916 inhabitants (on 1 January 2021), it is the second most populous city in Piedmont after Turin. It is ...

, winning a successive promotion in 2010 (to Serie B) and in 2011 (Serie A). In the first Novara season, he only earned a gross annual salary of €76,900. He later played for

KF Vllaznia Shkodër Klubi I Futbollit Vllaznia Shkodër, commonly known as Vllaznia is an Albanian football club based in the city of Shkodër. It is the association football branch of the Vllaznia Sports Club, which was founded on 16 February 1919. It is also the ...

in the

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. He employed Bruno Carpeggiani (of "Italian Managers Group srl.") as his agent on 12 December 2008 but unilaterally terminated the contract during 2009–10 season. In 2011 ''Tribunale Nazionale di Arbitrato per lo Sport'' of

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awarded a decision that Shala had to pay Carpeggiani €3,845 as agent fee (€76,900 x 5%).

References

External links

La Gazzetta dello Sport profile (updated as of June 2008)
* 1983 births Living people Footballers from Prizren Kosovo Albanians Kosovan emigrants to Switzerland Swiss people of Albanian descent Sportspeople of Albanian descent Men's association football midfielders Kosovan men's footballers Swiss men's footballers Switzerland men's under-21 international footballers FC Lugano players FC Schaffhausen players Grasshopper Club Zürich players US Salernitana 1919 players Calcio Foggia 1920 players Cagliari Calcio players Taranto FC 1927 players Novara FC players KF Teuta Durrës players Amicale F.C. players Swiss Super League players Serie A players Serie B players Kategoria Superiore players Swiss expatriate men's footballers Kosovan expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Italy Swiss expatriate sportspeople in Italy Kosovan expatriate sportspeople in Italy Expatriate men's footballers in Albania Kosovan expatriate sportspeople in Albania Swiss expatriate sportspeople in Albania Expatriate men's footballers in Vanuatu Shala (tribe) {{Switzerland-footy-midfielder-stub