Agustin Kola

Agustin Kola was born on the 10th May 1959. He is a former footballer from Albania. He played football for SK Tirana, it was there that he played all but one season of his career. He has that one season in Greece with the club, Egaleo F.C in the 1991/92 season.  He was a member of the Albanian national team from the year 1980 to the year 1994. He played 21 games for the national team of the country and scored a goal for them, the goal came in the match that was played against Poland in the year 1984. 

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He is ranked 6th in the top goal scorers of the superliga of the country with the total of 140 goals to his name. 

He was the coach of SK Tirana in the 2008/09 season, b ut he resigned just after two games before the end of the season, meanwhile, SK Tirana won the championship, just because of his presence in the club in that season.  

Career

After spending his youth years in the Circus of Tirana, as an acrobat, and also good in swimming, Kola was seen playing football by the middle school teacher Aurel Verria, who took him to the first coach of the Tirana’s youth, Enver Rada. Kola was 13 years of age. When he turned 14, he entered the youth Spartakiad and with the acrobatic skills he had, he was given the role of goalkeeper, meanwhile, after his team was losing 0-1, he told one of the players to go and keep in the post, and he went into the pitch to play as a striker in the match. The coach of the team had less time to recall him because he scored the equalizing goal of the match and soon assisted the goal that put them on top of the game. After that game, he was never told to go the goal post again, but he was turned into ma striker. 

Without the knowledge of anyone, Kola applied and passed the scrimmage that was held at Sports mastery school Loro Boriçi, a high school specializing in manufacturing young footballers.

Kola will remain the memory of KF Tirana fans as one of the greatest players who has the spirit of sacrifice of anything he can to the game. He has got injured many times for his team and managed to overturn the fate of the game into the win of his club. His attacking partnership with Arben Minga made the attacking force of the club one of the most memorable of the Albanian football. 

He has won eight Albanian superliga seasons with the club and eight Albanian Cups with the club.