Zyber Konçi
Albania footballer and manager (1927-2015)
Zyber Konçi (1 January 1927 – 19 January 2015) was a football coach who coached the Albania national team.
Managerial career
Konçi had two spells as Albania's coach, in 1963-65 and 1980. He was the first coach to lead Albania in the qualifiers of a major tournament, those of the 1964 European Nations' Cup, where he also obtained the first victory for Albania in such tournaments' qualifiers, against Denmark.
He was the coach that played the youngest player ever on the Albania national team, Dinamo's Iljaz Çeço, at only 17, in a friendly against Algeria on 11 October 1964 that finished in a 1–1 draw.
Personal life and death
Konçi was educated in Czechoslovakia and introduced scientific methods at the Albanian Institute of Physical Culture and Sports; he also was the founder of the famous Shkëndija Tiranë football academy, which produced many Albanian football talents. He died on 19 January 2015, at the age of 88.
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