Bekim Kastrati
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Bekim Kastrati | ||
| Date of birth | 25 March 1979 | ||
| Place of birth | Peć, SFR Yugoslavia | ||
| Height | 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Striker | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Budućnost Peć | |||
| Germania Geistenbeck | |||
| –2000 | 1. FC Mönchengladbach | ||
| 2000–2001 | SC Wegberg | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2001–2002 | FC Wegberg-Beeck | 22 | (4) |
| 2002–2003 | Aris Thessaloniki | 0 | (0) |
| 2003–2004 | Borussia Freialdenhoven | 34 | (13) |
| 2004–2006 | Borussia Mönchengladbach II | 58 | (41) |
| 2005–2006 | Borussia Mönchengladbach | 4 | (0) |
| 2006–2007 | Eintracht Braunschweig | 6 | (1) |
| 2006–2007 | → Eintracht Braunschweig II | 2 | (1) |
| 2007–2009 | Fortuna Düsseldorf | 37 | (5) |
| 2007–2009 | → Fortuna Düsseldorf II | 7 | (2) |
| 2009–2010 | Dynamo Dresden | 8 | (0) |
| 2009–2010 | → Dynamo Dresden II | 1 | (2) |
| 2010 | Bonner SC | 10 | (5) |
| 2010–2012 | Wuppertaler SV Borussia | 34 | (5) |
| Total | 223 | (79) | |
| International career | |||
| 2006 | Albania | 2 | (0) |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Bekim Kastrati (born 25 March 1979) is an Albania former professional footballer[1] who played the majority of his career in Germany.
Club career
He is a striker who had joined Bonn from Dynamo Dresden in January 2010, switching to Wuppertaler SV Borussia in May. Prior to playing for Düsseldorf he had played for a number of German clubs including Fortuna Düsseldorf, Eintracht Braunschweig and Borussia Mönchengladbach.
Injury
In January 2008, Fortuna Düsseldorf hosted the SWD Wintercup, inviting Bundesliga sides SV Werder Bremen, Borussia Dortmund and Bayer 04 Leverkusen over for a short one-day tournament. Fortuna won it, beating Dortmund 1–0 in the final. The winning goal was scored by Kastrati. A few days later, Fortuna played a friendly against Bayern Munich. Bayern won 3–2, thanks to goals by Jan Schlaudraff and Luca Toni. Kastrati had a chance to equalise in the 89th minute, but he unfortunately crashed into Bayern's third choice keeper Bernd Dreher. It was this incident where he suffered a fractured testicle and had to be brought to a hospital to undergo an emergency operation.
International career
He made his debut for Albania in a March 2006 friendly match against Georgia in Tirana and earned a total of 2 caps, scoring no goals. His second and final international was a September 2006 European Championship qualification match against Romania.[2]
References
- ^ "Bekim Kastrati". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 22 July 2012.
- ^ "Player Database". eu-football.info. Retrieved 6 May 2019.
External links
- Bekim Kastrati at National-Football-Teams.com
- Bekim Kastrati at fussballdaten.de (in German)
- 1979 births
- Living people
- People from Peć
- Kosovo Albanians
- Association football forwards
- Kosovan footballers
- Albanian footballers
- Albania international footballers
- Aris Thessaloniki F.C. players
- Borussia Mönchengladbach II players
- Borussia Mönchengladbach players
- Eintracht Braunschweig players
- Eintracht Braunschweig II players
- Fortuna Düsseldorf players
- Fortuna Düsseldorf II players
- Dynamo Dresden players
- Dynamo Dresden II players
- Bonner SC players
- Wuppertaler SV players
- Bundesliga players
- 2. Bundesliga players
- 3. Liga players
- Kosovan expatriate footballers
- Albanian expatriate footballers
- Expatriate footballers in Germany
- Kosovan expatriate sportspeople in Germany
- Albanian expatriate sportspeople in Germany
- FC Wegberg-Beeck players