Loro Boriçi
Albanian association football player (1922-1984)
Lorenco Boriçi (4 August 1922 – 25 April 1984), commonly known as Loro Boriçi was an Albanian footballer who played as a forward. He is regarded as one of Albania's greatest players.
He played mostly for Partizan Tirana (won the 1949 and 1954 Albanian title and scored 68 goals for them) and Vllaznia Shkodër (won the 1945 Albanian title). Boriçi was the reserve of Silvio Piola in Italian Serie A with Lazio. He captained Albania in winning the 1946 Balkan Cup. Today, Loro-Boriçi Stadium in Shkodër is named in his honor.
Club career
Born Lorenco Boriçi on 4 August 1922 in Shkodër, the northern part of Albania to an Albanian Catholic family, whom spoke the Albanian language in the Gheg dialect. His family descends from Boriç a village near Antivar, Montenegro. Daut Boriçi may be a distant relative. Boriçi was pursuing secondary studies in the Xaverian College of his city, and was only 15 when he played as part of the first team of Vllaznia Shkodër in an August 1937 friendly against Dragoi Pogradec.
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