Kliton Bozgo (born 5 December 1971) is a retired Albanian

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Club career

During his career, Bozgo had played for both Slovenian giants Olimpija and

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. He made a big impact in the

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, especially with Maribor, where he is still regarded as one of the best forwards to have ever played for the club. Overall, he scored a total of 110 goals for Maribor. He was the top scorer of the Slovenian First League twice, in 1999–2000 (24 goals) and 2004–05 (18 goals). In the 1999–2000 season, he reached the

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group stages with Maribor. In total, he has played 207 matches in the Slovenian First League, scoring 109 goals in the process.

International career

Bozgo made his debut for

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in a February 1993

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match against

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, and earned a total of twelve caps for the national team, scoring no goals. His final international was in February 2000 against

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Managerial career

While playing for Mura 05, Bozgo also took over the position of assistant coach to

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. In 2013, he joined Osmanović again, this time as assistant coach at

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. At the end of the season, Aluminij were relegated and Osmanović was replaced by

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who had been Bozgo's teammate at Maribor in the 1999–2000 season and who decided to keep Bozgo at the club as assistant manager. After only three months with the club, Šimundža was hired as the new head coach at Maribor in September 2013, and Aluminij made Bozgo an interim head coach. On 10 October 2013, the club announced

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as the new head coach, and Bozgo stayed on as his assistant until the end of the season. In 2015, he joined SV Sachsenburg as

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, and in January 2016, he started a new chapter with SV Kaindorf in the Austrian Gebietsliga. In April 2018, the club replaced him with Gernot Krinner.Trainerwechsel beim SV Kaindorf an der Sulm
– Mein Bezirk

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