Ilir Luarasi (12 March 1954 – 17 January 2018) was an

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 retired football player. He was a

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for Dinamo Tiranë and the Albania national team in the 70s and 80s.

Club career

Luarasi spent 11 years between the posts of Dinamo, playing alongside fellow internationals

Muhedin Targaj Muhedin Targaj (born 19 March 1955) is a retired Albanian football player and manager. He now works at Albanian Football Association as a member of Executive Committee. Club career Born in Tepelenë, Targaj played for Dinamo Tirana from 1973 t ...

and Ilir Përnaska among others. He won three league titles and two domestic cups with the club and played in the 1985–86 UEFA Cup. He was found dead in his house in France in January 2018.

International career

He made his debut for

in a November 1981 FIFA World Cup qualification match away against

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and earned a total of 2 caps, scoring no goals. His second and final international was a September 1982 European Championship qualification match against

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Honours

* Albanian Superliga: 3 ::

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, 1980,

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References

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