Robert Jashari (2 February 1938 – 22 January 2022), also known as Bert Jashari, was an Albanian

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, who played for

Partizani Tirana Futboll Klub Partizani, or FK Partizani for short, is an Albanian professional football club based in Tirana, that competes in the Kategoria Superiore. Founded in 1946, the club was historically affiliated to the Albanian army. Partizani's curren ...

and the Albania national team. He won the

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six times between 1957 and 1964 with Partizani Tirana and he was the top goalscorer in the National Championship in three consecutive seasons between 1962 and 1965, with 18, 9 and 14 goals respectively. He scored a total of 69 league goals for Partizani.

Playing career

Club

Born in Tirana, Jashari was raised by his mother after his father died when he was only 3 years old. His mother remarried an Italian man, who later was allowed to leave communist Albania for Italy. Jashari replaced the country's most famous footballing son

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in the Partizani forward line in 1956 and played alongside other Albanian greats

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and

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in an all-conquering Partizani team. In 1968, he suddenly quit football after he surprisingly was not named in the squad facing

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in the second leg of their

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match away in Italy.Robert Jashari, kolosi i Partizanit që shpiku golin “akrobatik”
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International

He made his debut for

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in a June 1963

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qualification match against

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in Tirana and earned a total of 7 caps, scoring 1 goal. His final international was a May 1965

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match away against

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. In the latter game, Jashari scored Albania's first ever goal in a competitive international game.

Managerial career

Jashari took 31 Korriku to the Kategoria Superiore for the first time in history in 1981.

Personal life

Jashari died in

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on 22 January 2022, at the age of 83.

Honours

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1957 1957 ( MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1957th year of the Common Era (CE) and ''Anno Domini'' (AD) designations, the 957th year of the 2nd millennium, the 57th year of the 20th century, and the 8th y ...

1958 Events January * January 1 – The European Economic Community (EEC) comes into being. * January 3 – The West Indies Federation is formed. * January 4 ** Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the third ...

1959 Events January * January 1 - Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when the forces of Fidel Castro advance. * January 2 - Lunar probe Luna 1 was the first man-made object to attain escape velocity from Earth. It reached the vicinity of E ...

1961 Events January * January 3 ** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba ( Cuba–United States relations are restored in 2015). ** Aero Flight 311 ...

1963 Events January * January 1 – Bogle–Chandler case: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation scientist Dr. Gilbert Bogle and Mrs. Margaret Chandler are found dead (presumed poisoned), in bushland near the Lane Cov ...

1964 Events January * January 1 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved. * January 5 - In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patriarch ...

Albania - Championship Winning Teams
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References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Jashari, Robert 1938 births 2022 deaths Footballers from Tirana Albanian men's footballers Men's association football forwards Albania men's international footballers FK Partizani Tirana players Kategoria Superiore players Albanian football managers KS Burreli managers Kategoria Superiore managers