Kreshnik Çipi (born 15 February 1958) is an Albanian retired football player and was a member of the
Assembly of the Republic of Albania
The Parliament of Albania ( sq, Kuvendi i Shqipërisë) or Kuvendi is the unicameral representative body of the citizens of the Republic of Albania; it is Albania's legislature. The Parliament is composed of no less than 140 members elected to ...
for the
Democratic Party of Albania
The Democratic Party of Albania ( sq, Partia Demokratike e Shqipërisë, PD or PDSH) is a conservative political party in Albania. It has been the largest opposition party in the country since 2013.
The Democratic Party of Albania was founded ...
.
Football career
Club
Çipi started out as a winger, moved to fullback and ended up as a central defender.
[Kreshnik Çipi: Kapiteni që solli rilindjen e bujshme të Flamurtarit të madh](_blank)
- Telegraf He spent his entire playing career with hometown club
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, captaining the team during the club's golden years involving fellow international players like
Sokol Kushta
Sokol Kushta (born 17 April 1964) is an Albanian retired football player, who was arguably one of his country's best players in the second half of the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s and one of the first to be allowed by the communist part ...
,
Rrapo Taho,
Petro Ruçi
Petro Ruci (3 March 1957 – 2 July 2009) was an Albanian football defender.
Club career
Ruci had a spell at Dinamo Tirana and was part of Flamurtari's golden team of the mid-1980s who played Spanish giants FC Barcelona in two successive UEFA C ...
,
Alfred Ferko and
Alfred Zijai.
International
He made his debut for
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 ...
in an October 1980
FIFA World Cup qualification match against
Bulgaria
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and earned a total of 7 caps, scoring no goals. His final international was an April 1992
FIFA World Cup qualification match against
Spain
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, national_motto = ''Plus ultra'' (Latin)(English: "Further Beyond")
, national_anthem = (English: "Royal March")
, i ...
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Honours
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Albanian Superliga: 1
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1991
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Albanian Cup: 2
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1985
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Events January
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1988
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Albania - List of Cup Finals
- RSSSF
Personal life
His nephew Geri
References
External links
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1958 births
Living people
People from Vlorë
Men's association football central defenders
Albania men's international footballers
Flamurtari FC players
Democratic Party of Albania politicians
Members of the Parliament of Albania
Albanian sportsperson-politicians
21st-century Albanian politicians
Footballers from Vlorë
Albanian footballers