Rigels Qose

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Rigels Qose
Personal information
Full name Rigels Qose
Date of birth (1977-08-03) 3 August 1977 (age 46)
Place of birth Korçë, Albania
Position(s) Forward
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1995–2001 Skënderbeu 92 (39)
2001–2003 Dinamo Tirana 54 (7)
2005 WM Pioneers 21 (12)
2006 Partizani 15 (1)
Skënderbeu (USA)
Total182(59)
International career
1993 Albania U-16 (1)
1999 Albania U-21 4 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Rigels Qose (born 3 August 1977, in Korçë) is an Albanian former football player who played for Skënderbeu Korçë, Dinamo Tirana, Western Mass Pioneers, Partizani Tirana and Skënderbeu in the USA. [1] [2] [3]

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Playing career

Club

After a lengthy career in Albania, Qosa moved to the United States in 2005 to end up in the All League First Team after a season with Western Mass Pioneers [4] for whom he scored 12 in 21 games. [5] He also won a league title with an American amateur side called Skënderbeu. [6]

International

Qosa scored the only goal when Albania beat Portugal 1–0 in Tirana in a UEFA European Under-16 Championship qualifier on 3 March 1993. [7]

Coaching career

Qosa was appointed technical director at Long Island Rough Riders, where he had been working since 2012. [8] He had earlier been working as head coach of Long Island's clubs Royal FC and SUSA.

Honours

2002 [9]

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