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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 25 July 1973 | ||
| Place of birth | Tirana, Albania | ||
| Height | 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Forward | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1982–1993 | Partizani Tirana | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1993–1994 | Partizani | 14 | (2) |
| 1994–1995 | VfR Mannheim | 23 | (5) |
| 1995–1996 | SV Südwest Ludwigshafen | 21 | (5) |
| 1996–1997 | Karlsruher SC II | 23 | (4) |
| 1996–1997 | Karlsruher SC | 8 | (0) |
| 1997–1999 | Fortuna Düsseldorf | 63 | (24) |
| 1999–2001 | 1. FC Kaiserslautern | 26 | (4) |
| 2001–2003 | Brescia | 75 | (15) |
| 2003–2005 | Bologna | 55 | (11) |
| 2005–2008 | Lazio | 46 | (5) |
| Total | 372 | (74) | |
| International career | |||
| 1989 | Albania U18 | 2 | (0) |
| 1990 | Albania U21 | 2 | (0) |
| 1997–2007 | Albania | 68 | (10) |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Igli Tare (Albanian pronunciation: [ˈiɡli 'taɾɛ]; born 25 July 1973) is an Albanian retired professional footballer who played as a forward. He is the former sporting director at Serie A club Lazio.[1]
Tare joined Partizani Tirana as a 9-year-old in 1982, and would later go on to make his debut as a 15-year-old in 1988 before leaving Albania in 1992 to emigrate to Germany. He played in the lower leagues of Germany for Südwest Ludwigshafen and VfR Mannheim before joining Bundesliga side Karlsruher SC in 1996, initially playing for their reserve side before making his Bundesliga debut in 1996. He then joined Fortuna Düsseldorf in the 2. Bundesliga, where he scored 24 league goals in 63 games in two seasons before returning to the Bundesliga with 1. FC Kaiserslautern in 1999, where he netted four league goals in 26 appearances in one year and a half at the club.
After falling out of favour at 1. FC Kaiserslautern he joined Serie A side Brescia in January 2001, where he helped the side finish in a respectable 8th place. He remained at Brescia for a further two seasons, and he scored a total of 15 league goals in 75 games before joining fellow Serie A side Bologna in 2003. He spent two years at the club and scored 11 league goals in 55 games, before joining Lazio in a surprise move in 2005 following Brescia's relegation to Serie B. He was primarily used as a backup player at Lazio and he only scored four goals in 54 league games before retiring as a player at the age of 34 in 2008.
- ^ Cieri, Stefano (6 June 2023). "Tare-Lazio è finita". La Gazzetta dello Sport (in Italian). RCS. p. 21. Retrieved 25 September 2023.