Selman Stërmasi

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Selman Stërmasi
Personal information
Date of birth (1908-05-09)9 May 1908
Place of birth Tirana, Ottoman Empire
Date of death 9 October 1976(1976-10-09) (aged 68)
Place of death Tirana, Albania
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1928–1930
Roma
1930–1937 Sportklub Tirana
Managerial career
1930–1937 Sportklub Tirana (player-manager)
1937–194x Sportklub Tirana
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Selman Stërmasi (9 May 1908 – 9 October 1976) was an Albanian

Albanian Football Association honoured him in 1990 by renaming the Dinamo Stadium to the Selman Stërmasi Stadium.[1]

In 1934 he won the record of jumping (1.71 m or 5 ft 7 in).[2]

Club career

Stërmasi was born in

first Albanian National Championship,[3]
where he was player-manager in the title winning team.

In 1939, he negotiated the sales of SK Tirana players

Bari and Roma respectively, and despite the Italian clubs offering Stërmasi 60% of the transfer fees he waived these fees in order to give it all to the players themselves in order to set up their new lives in Italy
.

He was married to Nazihe Stërmasi until he passed in 1976.

Honours

Sportklub Tirana

References

  1. ^ Erlet Shehi. "SK Tirana". digilander.libero.it. Retrieved 13 April 2011.
  2. ^ Biography of Selman Stërmasi at zeriyt.com Archived 4 October 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ 85 vjet më parë: Kampionati i 1-rë i Shqipërisë - Panorama (in Albanian)
  4. ^ Albania - Championship Winning Teams - RSSSF