Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 16 December 1997 | ||
Place of birth | Elbasan, Albania | ||
Height | 1.92 m (6 ft 3+1⁄2 in) | ||
Position(s) | Forward | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Iraklis | ||
Number | 9 | ||
Youth career | |||
2003–2015 | PAOK | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2015–2019 | PAOK | 1 | (0) |
2016–2017 | → Michalovce (loan) | 27 | (3) |
2017 | → Slavoj Trebišov (loan) | 6 | (0) |
2018–2019 | → Aiginiakos (loan) | 30 | (4) |
2019–2020 | Karaiskakis | 15 | (3) |
2020–2021 | Ierapetra | 25 | (5) |
2021–2023 | AEL | 15 | (3) |
2023– | Iraklis | 53 | (12) |
International career | |||
2013 | Albania U17 | 3 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 1 December 2024 |
Kristian Kushta (born 16 December 1997) is an Albanian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Super League Greece 2 club Iraklis.
Kushta was born in Albania but moved to Greece when he was very young and started his youth career with PAOK FC aged five. [1]
He made it his professional debut under the coach Igor Tudor on 17 December 2015 in a 2015–16 Greek Football Cup match against Olympiacos Volou coming on as a substitute in the 46th minute in place of Nikos Syrakos, where the match finished in the 1–1 away draw. [2]
Kushta participated with Albania national under-17 football team in the 2014 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualifying round in October 2013 under the coach Dzemal Mustedanagić where he managed to appear in all 3 group matches, playing as a substitute in the opening match against Romania U17 replacing Franc Bakalli, then two other matches as a starter to help his side to advance in the next elite round. [3]
His uncle is the former player Sokol Kushta.
Season | Club | League country | League | National Cup | Europe | Total | ||||
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Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | |||
2015–16 | PAOK | Superleague Greece | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | - | - | 1 | 0 |
Total | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
Career total | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
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