Kristian Kushta

Kristian Kushta
Personal information
Date of birth	19 December 1997 (age 26)
Place of birth	Elbasan, Albania
Height	1.92 m (6 ft 4 in)
Position(s)	Forward
Team information
Current team	Karaiskakis
Number	16
Youth career
2003–	PAOK
Senior career*
Years	Team
2015–2019	PAOK
2016–2017	→ Michalovce (loan)
2017	→ Slavoj Trebišov (loan)
2018–2019	→ Aiginiakos (loan)
2019–	Karaiskakis
International career
2013	Albania U17
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 15 December 2019

Kristian Kushta (born 19 December 1997) is an Albanian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Greek Super League 2 club Karaiskakis.

Club career

Kushta was born in Albania but moved to Greece and started his youth career with PAOK FC at age of just 5.^[1]

He made it his first professional debut under the coach Igor Tudor on 17 December 2015 in a 2015–16 Greek Football Cup match against Olympiacos Volou coming on as a substitute in the 46th minute in place of Nikos Syrakos, where the match finished in the 1–1 away draw.^[2]

Kushta participated with Albania national under-17 football team in the 2014 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualifying round in October 2013 under the coach Dzemal Mustedanagić where he managed to appear in all 3 group matches, playing as a substitute in the opening match against Romania U17 replacing Franc Bakalli, then two other matches as a starter to help his side to advance in the next elite round.^[3]

His uncle is the former player Sokol Kushta.

As of 20 March 2016 ^[4]

Season	Club	League country	League		League Cup		Europe		Total
Season	Club	League country	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
2015–16	PAOK	Superleague Greece	0	0	1	0	-	-	1	0
Total			0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0
Career total			0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0