Altin Lala

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Altin Lala
Altin lala.jpg
Recording from 2007
Personnel
birthday 18th November 1975
place of birth Tirana ,  Albania
size 172 cm
position Defensive Midfield
Juniors
Years station
1984-1991 KS Dinamo Tirana
1991-1992 SpVgg Hosenfeld
1992-1993 Borussia Fulda
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1993-1998 Borussia Fulda 90 0(7)
1998-2012 Hannover 96 297 (10)
2009-2010 Hanover 96 II 5 0(1)
2012 FC Bayern Munich II 3 0(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1990-1991 Albania U-16 min. 1 0(0)
1994 Albania U-21 1 0(0)
1994-2012 Albania 78 0(3)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2014-2016 Albania (assistant coach)
1 Only league games are given.

Altin Lala (born November 18, 1975 in Tirana ) is a former Albanian football player and coach who also has German nationality . He was under contract with Hannover 96 for 14 years and was the record Albanian national player until 2014.

Player career

Club career

Youth and amateur time

Lala began his football career in 1984 in the youth department of Dinamo Tirana and continued it after fleeing in 1991 (see also Miscellaneous) at SpVgg Hosenfeld in Germany. After one season he moved to the upper division Borussia Fulda , with whom he rose to the Regionalliga Süd .

Hannover 96

Altin Lala in April 2008

After initially switching to the second division side Hannover 96 failed in January 1998, talent scouts from Hannover 96 discovered Lala before, this succeeded in the summer of the same year. Lala made her debut on July 30, 1998 (1st matchday) in a 1-0 win at home against Karlsruher SC . He scored his first goal in the 2nd Bundesliga on August 23, 1998 (5th matchday) with the connection goal in the 1: 2 defeat in the away game against FC Gütersloh .

After four seasons and 115 second division games (9 goals), he was promoted to the Bundesliga for the 2002/03 season with the club as second division champion in 2002 . There Lala remained loyal to the club until the end of the 2011/12 season and recorded 181 appearances in the German elite division. During this time he held the position of team captain from 2004 to 2007 , which he transferred to goalkeeper Robert Enke . In the 181 first division games he scored his only Bundesliga goal with the goal to make it 5-0 on January 31, 2007 (19th matchday) in the home game against Hertha BSC . After 14 years for Hannover 96, he was adopted by fans and the club on May 5, 2012.

FC Bayern Munich II

For the 2012/13 season he was signed by the second team of Bayern Munich . There he played the first three games and then retired due to injury. Due to a serious knee injury, Altin Lala announced the end of his active football career and his return to Hanover in mid-October 2012.

National team

After appearances for the U-16 and U-21 national team of his country, he played 78 international matches for the senior national team of Albania from 1998 to 2011 , in which he scored three goals. He was temporarily the record national player in his home country until he was replaced by Lorik Cana .

Coaching career

From March 2014 to summer 2016, Lala was assistant coach of the Albanian national team .

Personal

After losing the international match against the German U16 national team in November 1991 in Offenbach am Main , Lala fled with ten other Albanian youth national players. This was followed by stays in the Schwalbach reception center and for two months in Hattersheim . As an asylum seeker, he was not allowed to start any training. After working in a furniture store, he worked in catering wholesaling.

Lala, who grew up in Kavaja , has been married since 1999 and has two children with his Italian wife. In 2009 Lala founded the company Rossmann & Lala together with the drugstore chain Dirk Rossmann GmbH , which operates drugstores in Albania . The end of May 2020, it was awarded by naturalization , the German citizenship .

The Albanian founded his own consultancy agency with ALF Sports GmbH . Milot Rashica is one of his clients .

successes

Web links

Commons : Altin Lala  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lala's second division debut
  2. ↑ Lala's 1st professor
  3. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Altin Lala - Matches and Goals in Bundesliga . RSSSF . July 12, 2017. Retrieved July 21, 2017.
  4. ↑ Lala's only national league
  5. ↑ Farewell choreography for Altin Lala on youtube.com
  6. ^ Fussball-vorort.de: "Lala: This is how my move to Bavaria works" ( Memento from April 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ No happy end in sight October 9, 2012 haz.de
  8. ↑ Home towards 96 Kicker.de, October 15, 2012
  9. ^ Roberto Mamrud: Altin Lala - International Appearances . RSSSF . July 12, 2017. Retrieved July 21, 2017.
  10. ^ Albania: Lala becomes assistant trainer , in: transfermarkt.de, from March 6, 2014
  11. ↑ a b This is how Altin Lala became the drugstore king of Albania welt.de, accessed on October 18, 2016
  12. ↑ Rundblick Garbsen / Seelze : Altin Lala in conversation. (PDF) Retrieved August 4, 2011 .
  13. ↑ Interview with Lala about his escape on bild.de.
  14. ↑ [[Neue Presse (Hannover) |]] (July 17, 2002): Huge, this 96-combat dwarf! Lala is sometimes Jekyll and sometimes Hyde. Retrieved June 21, 2010 .
  15. ↑ Altin Lala: "My family is the support I need". Retrieved June 21, 2010 .
  16. ↑ Certificate from Mayor Belit Onay: 96 cult player Altin Lala is now officially German. May 28, 2020, accessed July 16, 2020 .
  17. ↑ Altin Lala naturalized. In: Hannover.de. Official portal of the region and the state capital Hanover, July 16, 2020 .
  18. ↑ ALF Sports GmbH , transfermarkt.de, accessed on December 11, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Lala, Altin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Albanian national soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH 18th November 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Tirana , Albania