Full name Bruno Lulaj Years Team Current team KF Skenderbeu Korce Number 4 Height 1.84 m | Playing position Role Footballer Place of birth Elbasan, Albania Name Bruno Lulaj Position Defender | |
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Date of birth (1995-04-02) 2 April 1995 (age 20) | ||
Bruno lulaj
Bruno Lulaj (born 2 April 1995) is an Albanian professional footballer who plays as a defender for Skënderbeu Korçë in the Albanian Superliga.
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- Bruno lulaj
- Sknderbeu Kor
- Loan at Lai
- Albania U 21
- 2017 UEFA Euro U 21 Championship
- Career statistics
- Honours
- References
Skënderbeu Korçë
He joined reigning Albanian champions Skënderbeu Korçë on a season long loan from Panionios on 20 August 2014.
He scored on his professional debut in an Albanian Cup game against Himara on 1 October 2014, in a game that finished 10–1 to Skënderbeu, which was the first time the club has scored 10 goals or more in their history. Lulaj started the game at centre back alongside Bajram Jashanica and he scored in the 10th minute to make it 2–0 for Skënderbeu in the historic 10-1 victory.
Lulaj made his league debut on 13 December 2014 in an away game against Tirana, where he came on as a 55th-minute substitute for Tefik Osmani in the 2–0 loss.
Loan at Laçi
On 1 September 2016, Lulaj along with his teammate Paolo Ivani were sent on loan to fellow Albanian Superliga side Laçi until the end of 2016–17 season. He was allocated squad number 4, and made his club debut six days later in the opening league match against Korabi Peshkopi, finished in a goalless draw. He scored his first goal of the season on 17 October in the matchday 7 against Vllaznia Shkodër, helping Laçi to take the first league win of the season after three draws and three defeats. The strike was followed by another one five days later in the match against Flamurtari Vlorë, securing his side a point.
Albania U-21
Lulaj was called up to the Albania national under-21 football team by coach Skënder Gega for the friendly match against Italy U21 on 6 May 2014.
2017 UEFA Euro U-21 Championship
Lulaj participated in the 2017 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification playing in 9 out 10 matches forming a duo partnership in center-defence with Herdi Prenga. He was called up in the opening match on 28 March 2015 against Liechtenstein U21 by coach Skënder Gega playing the full 90-minutes match to help his side to get a clear away 0–2 victory. Then for the next match and the rest of the tournament he retained his starting place under coach Redi Jupi playing another full 90-minutes match against Israel U21 on 3 September 2015 where Albania U21 took a 1–1 draw. He received an Yellow card for each of two first matches. Then for the third fixture 5 days later against Portugal U21, fellow defender Amir Rrahmani was returned to U21 side from Senior team to play as a starter instead of Lulaj. The match resulted to be a disaster for Albania U21 as they conceded 6 goals until 70th minute and coach Redi Jupi brought in Lulaj in the 72nd minute in place of the Midfielder Endri Çekiçi to line up 3 center-backs Lulaj among Prenga and Rrahmani and it resulted in not conceding any other goal, but scoring one with Milot Rashica in the 83rd minute to end the result in 1–6 loss. Then he continued to play for full 90-minutes in next 5 matches where Albania U21 took 2 wins, 2 draws and 1 loss. In the last match of these 5' he r3eceived another Yellow card which completed a suspension for the next match where he missed the penultimate one. He was returned after suspension to play the full 90-minutes in the last match against Israel U21.