Alban Tafaj
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Alban Tafaj is a former Albania
n football player who used to play for both city rivals, KF Partizani Tirana
and KF Tirana in a career lasting 15 years. Following his retirement from preofessional football at the end of the 2005-06 season Tafaj was offered a job in the back room staff at KF Tirana.He became the club's technical director but has also had to fill in as a caretaker manager when the club changes managers through the season. He also guided KF Tirana to their 24th Albanian Superliga in 2009 after former coach Agustin Kola
left the club after narrowly losing out on the Albanian Cup trophy to Flamurtari. Tafaj finished the season and kept Tirana at the top of the table to win the championship. Once again he is currently the caretaker manager after Croatia
n coach Ilija Lončarević
left the club earlt on in the season after a poor series of results.
Albania
Albania , officially known as the Republic of Albania , is a country in Southeastern Europe, in the Balkans region. It is bordered by Montenegro to the northwest, Kosovo to the northeast, the Republic of Macedonia to the east and Greece to the south and southeast. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea...
n football player who used to play for both city rivals, KF Partizani Tirana
KF Partizani Tirana
Futboll Klub or Klubi Sportiv Partizani is an Albanian football club, playing in the capital, Tirana, and founded in 1946. Their first participation in the Albanian National Championship was in 1947....
and KF Tirana in a career lasting 15 years. Following his retirement from preofessional football at the end of the 2005-06 season Tafaj was offered a job in the back room staff at KF Tirana.He became the club's technical director but has also had to fill in as a caretaker manager when the club changes managers through the season. He also guided KF Tirana to their 24th Albanian Superliga in 2009 after former coach Agustin Kola
Agustin Kola
Agustin Kola is a former Albanian footballer. His former teams are SK Tirana, where he played all but one season of his career with SK Tirana as he has one season in Greece with Egaleo F.C. in the 1991-1992 season...
left the club after narrowly losing out on the Albanian Cup trophy to Flamurtari. Tafaj finished the season and kept Tirana at the top of the table to win the championship. Once again he is currently the caretaker manager after Croatia
Croatia
Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...
n coach Ilija Lončarević
Ilija Loncarevic
Ilija Lončarević is a Croatian football coach.Lončarević led Inker Zaprešić to the Croatian Cup title in 1992, but his arguably biggest success in management came when he won the Croatian championship with Dinamo Zagreb in 1999...
left the club earlt on in the season after a poor series of results.