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,

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, Rrapo Taho,

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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

in a December 1990 European Championship qualification defeat by

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and earned a total of 10 caps, scoring no goals. His final international was a March 1997 FIFA World Cup qualification match against

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Honours

* Albanian Superliga: 1 ::

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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 {{Albania-footy-defender-stub