Riza Lushta
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Riza Lushta | ||
| Date of birth | 22 August 1916 | ||
| Place of birth |
Mitrovica, Kosovo, Albania |
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| Date of death | 6 February 1997 (aged 80) | ||
| Place of death | Torino, Italy | ||
| Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in) | ||
| Playing position | Centre forward | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1932–1934 | Rudari Trepča | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1934–1939 | SK Tirana | 69 | (39) |
| 1939–1940 | Bari | 16 | (3) |
| 1940–1945 | Juventus | 95 | (56) |
| 1945–1946 | Napoli | 27 | (6) |
| 1946–1948 | Alessandria | 57 | (17) |
| 1948–1951 | Cannes | 27 | (3) |
| 1951–1953 | Siena | 27 | (4) |
| 1945–1949 | Forlì | 21 | (?) |
| 1951–1953 | Rapallo Ruentes | 22 | (?) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 3 June 2008. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 3 June 2008 |
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Riza Lushta (born 22 January 1916 in Mitrovica, Kosovo, died in 1997 in Torino, Italy) was a Kosovar Albanian football striker.
Lushta was born on 22 January 1916 in Mitrovica, Kingdom of Serbia at the time, now in modern-day Kosovo. It was in his hometown that he would begin to play football with the local club Rudari Trepča, where he quickly established himself as one of the most effective strikers the city and even region had ever seen. After spendin with Rudari Trepča Lushtag two years left Kosovo in 1934 and went to Albania to join the Technical School "Harry Fultz" in Tirana and in that time he joined two time Albanian champions SK Tirana. His career with Tirana immediately took off, winning the league title in his first season in Albania, before going on to win it a total of four times between 1934 and 1939, as well as the inaugural King's Cup in 1939. He left Albania and SK Tirana in 1939 following the Italian occupation of Albania to join Bari in Italy, where he scored 3 times in 16 games during his first season in Italy. His performances with Bari attracted the interest of Juventus who he joined in 1940 after just one year with Bari. In his first season with Juventus he scored 9 times in 26 games before netting 15 goals the following season to be named the highest scoring foreigner of the 1941–42 Serie A.
Lushtas entered the parlor and football Serie A was done in red and white sweater Baris where Lushta in his first season scored three times in 19 matches. An unimpressive results may seem, but sufficiently startling to giants Juventus would bite on attracting over Albanian to the old lady. Back home staid in Turin and Juventus so exploded Lushta. In 26 games, he made nine goals the first season, of which he uppföljde this with the network 16 times in 28 matches for the season, of which he was the same year took a cuptitel with Juventus at incredibly great merit of Lushta yourself. In the finale was one against AC Milan, match result nailed 4-2 to Juventus which Lushta slammed into a hat-trick for Milan in the final. Total goals in the Cup that season landed on eight goals in six games. 24 goals in 34 games in total during the same year, of which a hat-trick on himself Milan in the final shot up the name Lushta to the skies in both Italy and the continent. A follow next year with 18 goals in 28 matches completed only the celebration of Lushta. His last year at Juventus (1944) could Lushta only 5 games, after making just as many goals in the opening games Napoli chose to release Albanian. How and why Juventus went along with this is still a major mystery among many puzzled supporters of both Juventus and football journalists. The same season successful Lushta slam into another seven pods for Napoli before Italy capitulated and Lushta chose to seek his fortune on the western front. But not with a rifle in his hand, but this time in the French league and the club AS Cannes, a short spell that Lushta ended when he got the offer to return to Italy and Alessandria, where he rounded off a new season with 17 goals before he finished his pro career with AC Siena.
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