Thomas Strakosha
Strakosha playing for Albania U-21 in 2014
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| Full name | Thomas Fotaq Strakosha | ||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 19 March 1995 | ||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Athens, Greece | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Playing position | Goalkeeper | ||||||||||||||
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Current team
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Lazio | ||||||||||||||
| Number | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||
| 2011–2012 | Panionios | ||||||||||||||
| 2012–2014 | Lazio | ||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||
| 2012– | Lazio | 6 | (0) | ||||||||||||
| 2015–2016 | → Salernitana (loan) | 11 | (0) | ||||||||||||
| National team‡ | |||||||||||||||
| 2012 | Albania U17 | 1 | (0) | ||||||||||||
| 2012–2014 | Albania U19 | 6 | (0) | ||||||||||||
| 2013 | Albania U20 | 0 | (0) | ||||||||||||
| 2013– | Albania U21 | 10 | (0) | ||||||||||||
| 2016– | Albania | 0 | (0) | ||||||||||||
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Honours
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 20:28, 26 December 2016 (UTC). |
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 20:28, 26 December 2016 (UTC).
Thomas Fotaq Strakosha (born 19 March 1995) is an Albanian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Italian club Lazio and the Albania national under-21 football team.
Strakosha began his youth career in 2011 at Panionios, from where in the next year he was signed by Lazio for a fee of €75K. He became a regular starter for the primavera team and was a key player with the primavera team that won the 2012–13 Campionato Nazionale Primavera after beating in the final Atalanta Primavera 3–0.
Following the departure of Lazio first team starter Juan Pablo Carrizo at Inter, in the second-half of the 2012–13 season, Strakosha gained entry with the first team as a third choice behind Federico Marchetti and Albano Bizzarri. He participated with the team that won 2012–13 Coppa Italia by beating 0–1 the derby city rivals Roma on 26 May 2013. On 18 August 2013, Strakosha was again on the bench as Lazio was defeat 4–0 by Juventus in the 2013 Supercoppa Italiana.
On 2 September 2013, Lazio sold Albano Bizzari to Genoa and at the same time bought the fellow Albanian goalkeeper, Etrit Berisha from Kalmar. This made Strakosha to stand still as a third choice and being only an unused substitute for the 2013–14 season behind the strong challenge for the starting place between Berisha and Marchetti.
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