Zyber Konçi

Zyber Konçi was a coach of the Albania national football team. He had two spells as Albania's coach, in 1963-65 and 1980. He was the first coach to lead Albania in the qualifiers of a major tournament, those of the 1964 European Nations' Cup, where he also obtained the first victory for Albania in such tournaments' qualifiers, against Denmark.

He was the coach that played the youngest player ever on the Albania national team, Dinamo's Iljaz Çeço, in a friendly against Algeria on October 11, 1964 finished in a 1-1 draw.[1]

He died on 19 January 2015, at the age of 88.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Aventura me “fëmijët” e Kombëtares Archived October 6, 2014, at the Wayback Machine.
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