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Albert Duro

Albanian footballer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionApr 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ4710058 ↗
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Albert Duro (born 16 February 1978) is an Albanian former footballer who played as a Centre back.

He spent the majority of his club career in Albania and Romania, representing Elbasani, Steaua București, Dinamo Tirana, Național București, Tirana, Teuta Durrës and Besa Kavajë. During his time in Romania, he won the Liga I title in the 2000–01 season with Steaua București and the Cupa României in 1998–99. In Albania, he won multiple domestic honors including three Superliga titles, an Albanian Cup and three Supercups.

Internationally, Duro earned five caps for the Albania national team between 1999 and 2000, making his debut against Norway.

He is the younger brother of Klodian Duro who was also a footballer.

Club career

Albert Duro began his senior club career at Elbasani, where he played from 1996 to 1998, making 54 league appearances and scoring 2 goals. In 1998, he moved to Romanian side Steaua București, playing in Liga I until 2001 and winning the Liga I title in the 2000–01 season and the Cupa României in 1998–99.

Duro returned to Albania in 2001 to play for Dinamo Tirana for one season, winning the Albanian Superliga in 2001–02. From 2002 to 2004, he was back in Romania with Național București, appearing in 23 league matches.

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“Albert Duro” enters the record as albanian footballer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Albert, Duro and Albanian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1978, 2000, 1998, 1999—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1978-02-16. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Albert, Duro and Albanian.
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“Albert Duro” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Albert, Duro and Albanian provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4710058. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1978, 2000, 1998 and 1999.

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This entry incorporates text from “Albert Duro” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.