Alban Bushi

Club

Albania U21

Position

Manager

Nationality

Albania

Date of birth

1973-08-20

Birthplace

Tirana, Albania

Height

180 cm

Alban Bushi (born 20 August 1973) is an Albanian professional football coach and former player who is the current manager of Albania under-21 and under-20 team. He is nicknamed "Loku".

During his playing career he played as a striker. Bushi during his 19-year career has played with 12 different clubs in 6 different countries. He started his career with capital club Tirana where he had an impressive goal-per-game ratio; he also had three short spells on loan with Szegedi in Hungary, Remscheid in Germany and Flamurtari Vlorë in Albania. He then went off to Greece to play for a short time at Apollon Smyrni. Following that he enjoyed a decent time at Litex Lovech before spending the next four years in Turkey by representing Adanaspor, İstanbulspor, and Trabzonspor.

Bushi returned to Albania in summer of 2004 to play for one season with Partizani Tirana before returning to Greece, where he would spend the next five years at Levadiakos. At the end of his career, Bushi returned to Albania once again to represent Tirana, stating that it was a "moral debt" to end his career where it started. He retired from football in November 2010.

Bushi also had a successful international career, being part of Albania national team for 12 years. With 14 goals, he was Albania's all-time leading top scorer from 2004 until Erjon Bogdani overtook him in 2011. He retired from international football in 2007.

Bushi has enjoyed a long playing career which has seen him play for 12 different clubs in 6 different countries. He started off his career in Albania with Tirana. He made his professional debut for Tirana in the 1992–93 season and after spending two seasons with the club, he then moved to Hungary with Szegedi. Soon after he was transferred in Germany to FC Remscheid. After 2 years abroad, he made a return to Albania, playing for 2 years between Tirana and Flamurtari Vlorë. He then moved to Greece signing for Apollon Smyrni and right after a half season, he headed off to Bulgaria to join Litex Lovech, where he became the first foreigner to captain the team. He spent two seasons in the Bulgarian A Football Group, winning them both.

After his spell in Bulgaria he moved to Turkey to play initially for Adanaspor in the 1999–2000 1.Lig. Then he signed for fellow 1.Lig side Istanbulspor. In his first season 2000–01 he scored 12 goals in 29 matches as İstanbulspor finished 12th. In the next season 2001–02 he played 16 games in where he scored 4 goals in the first-half befor