Edgar Çani
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Edgar Junior Çani | ||
| Date of birth | 22 July 1989 | ||
| Place of birth | Tirana, Albania | ||
| Height | 1.92 m (6 ft 4 in) | ||
| Playing position | Forward | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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Pisa | ||
| Number | 9 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 2004–2007 | Pescara | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2007–2008 | Pescara | 11 | (3) |
| 2008–2011 | Palermo | 1 | (0) |
| 2008–2009 | → Ascoli (loan) | 24 | (4) |
| 2009 | → Padova (loan) | 19 | (2) |
| 2010 | → Piacenza (loan) | 14 | (4) |
| 2010–2011 | → Modena (loan) | 34 | (5) |
| 2011–2013 | Polonia Warsaw | 31 | (11) |
| 2013–2015 | Catania | 19 | (3) |
| 2013 | → Carpi (loan) | 14 | (1) |
| 2014 | → Bari (loan) | 14 | (3) |
| 2015 | → Leeds United (loan) | 4 | (0) |
| 2015– | Pisa | 59 | (7) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 2012– | Albania | 16 | (4) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 13:54, 31 May 2017 (UTC). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 12 November 2016 |
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Edgar Junior Çani (born 22 July 1989) is an Albanian professional footballer who plays as a centre forward for Italian club Pisa. He also represents the Albania national football team.
Çani was born in Tirana, Albania but grew up in Città della Pieve in the Perugia central Italy, after his family emigrated to Italy in the famous exodus of the Vlora ship in 1990. [1]. Çani was first spotted by a Pescara scout in 2004, and then signed by the biancazzurri.
After playing the first half of the 2007–08 season with Pescara in Serie C1, on 31 January 2008 Serie A side Palermo confirmed they had signed Cani, along with Luca Di Matteo, for a reported €600,000 and €500,000 respectively. In their June 2008 accounts Palermo showed the signings as being for €450,000 each.
Çani made his Serie A debut on 27 April 2008 in a 0–0 home tie against Atalanta.
In July 2008, Ascoli confirmed they had signed Çani on loan for the 2008–09 Serie B season. He scored 4 goals in 24 appearances, most of them as a starter. Ascoli finished the season in 16th.
On 20 August 2009 he was loaned out to fellow Serie B team, Padova. In the first half of the 2009–10 season he scored only 2 goals in total of 19 appearances.
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