Arben Minga
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| Full name | Arben Minga | ||||||||
| Date of birth | 16 March 1959 | ||||||||
| Place of birth | Tirana, Albania | ||||||||
| Date of death | 31 January 2007 (aged 47) | ||||||||
| Place of death | Windsor, Canada | ||||||||
| Height | 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in) | ||||||||
| Playing position | Striker | ||||||||
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| 1973–1975 | 17 Nëntori Tirana | ||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||
| 1975–1991 | 17 Nëntori Tirana | ? | (102) | ||||||
| 1991–1992 | FC Braşov | 17 | (1) | ||||||
| 1992–1993 | Dacia Unirea Brăila | 25 | (3) | ||||||
| 1993–1994 | Acvila Giurgiu | ||||||||
| 1994–1996 | KF Tirana | 55 | (3) | ||||||
| National team | |||||||||
| 1980–1989 | Albania | 28 | (2) | ||||||
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| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Arben Minga (16 March 1959 in Tirana – 31 January 2007 in Windsor, Canada) was an Albanian footballer, who played as a centre-forward and a central defender.
He was known as Beni i madh (Big Ben). He was a six-time Albanian title winner.
He began his career in Albanian Championship with KF Tirana, then known as 17 Nëntori, becoming well established by the 1977/78 season. Along with Agustin Kola, Mirel Josa, Sulejman Mema, Shkelqim Muca, Bedri Omuri and Millan Baçi, Minga was a member of the Tirana side of the 1980s that won four national championships and three national cups. In the early 1990s, Minga moved abroad to play in Romania in the 1992–1994, but came back to KF Tirana in the last two years.
Capped 28 times by Albania, he played 20 games in European competition. He had represented his country in 12 FIFA World Cup qualification matches
He subsequently went to Canada with his wife Nora Goxhi, a former professional basketballer, where they raised two sons, Grid and Jon . It was there that he was diagnosed with a terminal illness. Minga died on 31 January 2007 of pancreatic cancer. Players in the 18th round of the 2006–07 Albanian Superliga games wore black armbands in his memory.
Ben Minga in memoriam video on YouTube
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