Full name Altin Rraklli Playing position Years Team Role Footballer Position Forward | Place of birth Kavaje, Albania 1987–1990 Besa Kavaje Name Altin Rraklli Height 1.75 m | |
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Date of birth (1970-07-17) 17 July 1970 (age 45) Current team Albania women's national football team | ||
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Altin Rraklli (born 17 July 1970) is an Albanian retired footballer who played as a forward, and the current coach of the Albania women's national team.
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Most of his professional career was spent in Germany, where he played for five clubs in both major levels of football, mainly Freiburg and Unterhaching for a total of 282 games. He was the first ever player from the nation to compete in the Bundesliga.
Playing career
Born in Kavaje, Rraklli began his career with Besa Kavaje, moving to the professionals three years later. In 1992 he signed with Germany's SC Freiburg, being instrumental in the Black Forest club's first ever top flight promotion by scoring 16 second division goals (squad best, tenth in the league, as Freiburg scored 102); in the next three Bundesliga seasons, he would only manage to be relatively used.
In the following eight years Rraklli continued to work in Germany, mainly in the second level: Hertha BSC, SpVgg Unterhaching – achieving another promotion and living his best professional years – and SSV Jahn Regensburg, also having one-season spells in Turkey and his homeland and retiring professionally in 2006 with German top flight totals of 111 matches and 16 goals. He also represented the Albanian national team 63 times, scoring 11 goals, which made him the second-highest goalscorer in the country's history.
Rraklli retired for good in 2009 at 39 years of age, after a brief spell with German amateurs SpVgg Bayern Hof.
Coaching career
Rraklli started working as a manager immediately after retiring, creating Tirana AS and going on to win the inaugural Albanian women's championship. In 2011, he was appointed at the helm of the women's national team since 2011.