| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Sokol Kushta | ||
| Date of birth | 17 April 1964 | ||
| Place of birth | Vlorë, Albania | ||
| Position(s) | Striker | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1981–1984 | Flamurtari | 40 | (14) |
| 1984–1987 | Partizani | 70 | (31) |
| 1987–1991 | Flamurtari | 81 | (41) |
| 1991–1993 | Iraklis | 36 | (2) |
| 1993–1994 | Apollon Kalamarias | 24 | (10) |
| 1994–1995 | Olympiakos Nicosia | 26 | (13) |
| 1995–1996 | Ethnikos Achna | 19 | (3) |
| Total | 296 | (114) | |
| International career‡ | |||
| 1987–1996 | Albania | 31 | (10) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 2000–2001 | Flamurtari | ||
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 7 October 2009 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 7 October 2009 | |||
Sokol Kushta (born 17 April 1964) is an Albanian retired football player, who was arguably one of his country's best players in the latter half of the 1980s and the early 1990s and one of the first to be allowed by the communist party to play abroad.
Kushta was a striker and was ranked 30th in the 1987 European Footballer of the Year, matching in the ranking players such as Alessandro Altobelli, Glenn Hoddle, and Rudi Völler.[1]