Alban Bushi

Bushi enjoyed a long playing career which saw him play for 12 clubs in six countries. He started off his career in Albania with Tirana. He made his professional debut for Tirana in the 1992–93 season and after spending two seasons with the club, he then moved to Hungary with Szegedi. Soon after he was transferred in Germany to FC Remscheid. After two years abroad, he made a return to Albania, playing for two years between Tirana and Flamurtari Vlorë. He then moved to Greece signing for Apollon Smyrnis and right after a half season, he headed off to Bulgaria to join Litex Lovech, where he became the first foreigner to captain the team. He spent two seasons in the Bulgarian A Football Group, winning them both. After his spell in Bulgaria he moved to Turkey to play initially for Adanaspor in the 1999–2000 1.Lig. Then he signed for fellow 1.Lig side Istanbulspor. In his first season 2000–01 he scored 12 goals in 29 matches as İstanbulspor finished 12th. In the next season 2001–02 he played 16 games in where he scored four goals in the first-half before moving on loan to another Süper Lig team Trabzonspor with whom he played only five matches but unable to score. He was part of Trabzonspor for another half season in 2002–03 playing seven matches failing once again to score, before returning to Istanbulspor for the second half in which he played 14 matches managing 4 goals to contribute in team's 9th place. In the 2003–04 season Bushi played 21 games and scored 5 goals to help…

Youth

Bushi was part of the Albania U21 national team during the 1994 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification playing two games both against Germany U21 on 17 November and 22 December 1992.

Senior

Bushi is a former Albania's all-time top scorer with 14 goals until Erjon Bogdani with his goal against France in 2011 became the new record holder with 15. He made 67 appearances Albania, the tenth highest in the team's history. Bushi scored on his international debut for Albania on 16 August 1995 against Malta at Ta' Qali National Stadium, netting the temporary equalizer in the 72nd minute in an eventual 2–1 loss. He made his competitive debut on 15 November in the match against Wales for the qualifiers of the UEFA Euro 1996, entering as a second-half substitute in a 1–1 home draw.

On 17 January 2012, Bushi was named as the Albania national team manager, a role which the Albanian Football Association applied for the first time following suggestion of new arrived coach at Albania Gianni De Biasi. Bushi was named Albania under-16 coach for their participation in the UEFA Development Tournament 2015 in May 2015. He won the tournament by winning all three matches. Following naming of Paolo Tramezzani as national team director, on 9 December 2016 Bushi was named as the Albania under-21 manager. He won his first game with Albania U21 on 27 March 2017 against Moldova 2–0. In collaboration with the Albanian Football Association, reborned the under-20 side by assigning a friendly versus Georgia on 14 November 2017 at David Petriashvili Stadium, Tbilisi, with Bushi as the coach at the same time along the under-21 national team.

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