Bekim Kastrati

Bekim Kastrati
Personal information
Date of birth (1979-03-25) 25 March 1979 (age 45)
Place of birth Peć, SFR Yugoslavia
Height 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Position(s) Forward
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 Albanian former professional footballer[1] who played as a forward and spent the majority of his career in Germany.

Club career

Kastrati number of German clubs including Fortuna Düsseldorf, Eintracht Braunschweig and Borussia Mönchengladbach. He joined Bonn from Dynamo Dresden in January 2010 before switching to Wuppertaler SV Borussia in May.

In January 2008, in a friendly between Fortuna Düsseldorf and Bayern Munich, Kastrati suffered a fractured testicle after colliding with Bayern's goalkeeper Bernd Dreher. He had to be brought to a hospital to undergo an emergency operation.[2]

International career

Kastrati made his debut for the Albania national team in a March 2006 friendly match against Georgia in Tirana and earned a total of two caps, scoring no goals. His second and final international was a September 2006 European Championship qualification match against Romania.[3]

References

  1. ^ "Bekim Kastrati". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 22 July 2012.
  2. ^ "2008.01.23 Neuss: Kastrati fällt mit Hodenriss aus". Tagesspiegel (in German). 23 January 2008. Retrieved 9 September 2021.
  3. ^ "Player Database". eu-football.info. Retrieved 6 May 2019.