Selman Stërmasi
Appearance
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Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 9 May 1908 | ||
Place of birth | Tirana, Ottoman Empire | ||
Date of death | 9 October 1976 | (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
- 1937[4]
References
- ^ Erlet Shehi. "SK Tirana". digilander.libero.it. Retrieved 13 April 2011.
- ^ Biography of Selman Stërmasi at zeriyt.com Archived 4 October 2011 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ 85 vjet më parë: Kampionati i 1-rë i Shqipërisë - Panorama (in Albanian)
- ^ Albania - Championship Winning Teams - RSSSF