Salvador Kaçaj (born 23 October 1967) 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 football player. Kaçaj has a legal degree as well as a business degree that he earned by attending University in New York. He was presented with the title "Master of the sport" and decorated with "Gold Medal". Kaçaj is now married with four children.

Club career

Kaçaj began playing football in Albania with the club Besëlidhja Lezhë, and moved to Greece in 1991. After one season in the Greek third division with Kallithea F.C., he joined

Athinaikos F.C. Athinaikos, officially known as Athinaikos AS FC ( Greek: Αθηναϊκός Αθλητικός Σύλλογος - Athinaikos Athlitikos Syllogos), the ''Athenaic Athletic Association'', is a Greek association football club based in the city of ...

in the Greek first division for two seasons. After three seasons in Cyprus with

AC Omonia Athletic Club Omonia Nicosia ( el, Αθλητικός Σύλλογος Oμόνοιας Λευκωσίας, ΑΣΟΛ; ''Athlitikos Sillogos Omonias Lefkosias'', ''ASOL''), commonly known as Omonia Nicosia, or simply Omonia ("Harmony"; also tran ...

, he returned to Greece to play for Levadiakos F.C. in the Greek second division.

International career

He made his debut for

in a September 1991

friendly match An exhibition game (also known as a friendly, a scrimmage, a demonstration, a preseason game, a warmup match, or a preparation match, depending at least in part on the sport) is a sporting event whose prize money and impact on the player's or ...

against

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and earned a total of 18 caps, scoring 1 goal. His final international was a June 1997 FIFA World Cup qualification match away against

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Post-football career

In May 2011, Kaçaj was elected town mayor of

Shëngjin Shëngjin is a coastal town and a former municipality in Lezhë County, northwestern Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became a subdivision of the municipality of Lezhë. The population at the 2011 census was 8,091.

, a small touristic coastal town situated in Lezhë District.Procedimi penal, qytetari: Më shembi lokalin me leje. Kaçaj: Lojë për të prishur imazhin tim në prag të zgjedhjeve
– Panorama

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* 1967 births Living people Sportspeople from Lezhë Men's association football midfielders Albanian men's footballers Albania men's international footballers KF Besëlidhja Lezhë players KF Skënderbeu Korçë players Athens Kallithea F.C. players Athinaikos F.C. players Olympiakos Nicosia players AC Omonia players Levadiakos F.C. players KF Vllaznia Shkodër players Super League Greece players Cypriot First Division players Albanian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Greece Albanian expatriate sportspeople in Greece Expatriate men's footballers in Cyprus Albanian expatriate sportspeople in Cyprus Mayors of places in Albania {{Albania-footy-midfielder-stub