Basri Tupella

Basri Tupella
Personal information
Full name Basri Tupella
Born 1959
Mitrovica, FPR Yugoslavia
Nationality Yugoslav/Kosovan
Playing position Center
Youth career
Years Team
–1974
 Trepça
Senior clubs
Years Team
1974–1978
 Trepça
1979–1980
 Borci
1981–1982
 Trepça
 Proleter Zrenjanin
 Novi Pazar
1987–1989
 Borci
1989
 CDC Tenerife
1991–1997
 Trepça

Basri Tupella was a Kosovan handball player. He played for several clubs in Yugoslavia and also for CDC Tenerife in Spain.[1][2] Tupella is regarded as one of the greatest Albanian handball players of all time.[3]

Disappearence

During the Kosovo War in June 1999, Serbian military forces arrested Tupella together with his brother and nephew.[4] Basri Tupella was possibly murdered by the Serbian forces and is declared missing since June 1999.[5]

Honours

KH Trepça

References

  1. ^ "Karriera bombë e Aziz Makiqit, po ja kë e kishte trajner!". Bota Sot (in Albanian). 10 July 2020. Retrieved 26 October 2024. Jo vetëm Aziz Makiqi, edhe Basri Tupella (i zhdukur në luftë) ka luajtur në Tenerife të Spanjës, edhe Petrit Fejzullahu (vëllai i Kaçusha Jasharit) në Barcelonë të Katalunisë në Spanjë.
  2. ^ DISA FJALË RRETH KLUBIT FUTBOLLISTIK “ NOVI PAZAR” Archived 10 November 2017 at the Wayback Machine at kosovapersanxhakun.org, 2024 (in Albanian)
  3. ^ Kemajl Goca (24 July 2022). "Basri Tupella shënoi 13 gola në Zagreb, por çfarë ngjau në ndeshjen me Medveshçakun në luftë për vend të parë?". Bota Sot (in Albanian).
  4. ^ "BIRN Launches 'If You Were Here' Missing Persons Campaign". balkaninsight.com. The last time Fluturije Tupella saw her husband Basri Tupella was at the beginning of June 1999. He was a well-known handball player from Mitrovica in Kosovo who had represented both Kosovo and Yugoslavia at the sport. At the very end of the war in Kosovo, Serbian military forces took him away together with his brother and nephew, and Fluturije Tupella never saw them again.
  5. ^ "BURYING THE PAST 10 YEARS OF IMPUNITY FOR ENFORCED DISAPPEARANCES AND ABDUCTIONS IN KOSOVO" (PDF). amnesty.org. p. 65.
  6. ^ "Kush e fitoi finalen Trepça – Besa në vitin 1994? Ja formacionet dhe golat". gazeta.mk (in Albanian).
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