Endrit Vrapi
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Endrit Vrapi is an Albania
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 plays for Skënderbeu Korçë in the Albanian Superliga ad for the Albanian National Football Team
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.

Career

Vrapi began his career while still a teenager, playing for KF Partizani Tiranë. Regarded as one of the best young Albanian
Albanians
Albanians are a nation and ethnic group native to Albania and neighbouring countries. They speak the Albanian language. More than half of all Albanians live in Albania and Kosovo...

 talents at the time, he was also captain of the Albania national under-19 football team
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. He worked his way up through the ranks at KF Partizani Tiranë and joined the first team during the 2001-2002 season, though he did not feature in any league game that season. This prompted Vrapi to sign with KS Lushnja
KS Lushnja
Klubi Sportiv Lushnja is an Albanian football club based in Lushnjë. Their home ground is "Abdurrahman Roza Haxhiu Stadium" , named for Abdurrahman Roza Haxhiu....

, a weaker team in the Albanian Superliga, to gain some experience.

At KS Lushnja he quickly established himself in the first team. He played seventy-six games and scored four goals for the club between 2002 and 2005. His impressive displays prompted one of the best teams in the country, KS Elbasani
KS Elbasani
Klubi i Futbollit or KF Elbasani is an Albanian football club, which plays in the city of Elbasan. The club was founded in 1913, from the fusion of two teams, "Aferdita Elbasan" and "Perparimi Elbasan", under the name "Klubi Futbollit Urani Elbasan"....

, to sign the left back in 2005. His most successful season came at KS Elbasani during his first spell there in the 2005-2006 season. He played thirty-four games and scored two goals that season and was one reason KS Elbasani won the Albanian championship. After his triumph with KS Elbasani, in 2006 Vrapi moved to KS Teuta Durrës
KS Teuta Durrës
Klubi Sportiv Teuta Durrës or KS Teuta is an Albanian football team, with its base in the city of Durrës. The club was founded in 1925 with the name of "KS Urani". In 1927, the club renamed themselves to "SK Durrës", in 1930, "KS Teuta Durrës", in 1946 "Ylli i Kuq Durrës" , in 1950 "SK Durrës", in...

, where he almost repeated his success with KS Elbasani, when Teuta Durrës finished second behind KF Tirana in the Albanian Superliga. During the 2006-2007 season he played twenty-nine games and scored two goals. After spending only one season in Durres
Durrës
Durrës is the second largest city of Albania located on the central Albanian coast, about west of the capital Tirana. It is one of the most ancient and economically important cities of Albania. Durres is situated at one of the narrower points of the Adriatic Sea, opposite the Italian ports of Bari...

, Vrapi changed teams again, moving back to KF Tirana. This turned out to be a mistake. KF Tirana struggled all season, finishing a disappointing sixth place in the Albanian Superliga, the team's lowest league position in years. During that poor season Vrapi played twenty-seven games without scoring a goal. The Albanian international defender
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 decided to go back and play where he had spent the best years of his career, KS Elbasani. He was greeted by his former team with open arms as they had paid a fee believed to be in the region of $140,000 for re-signing the left back.

Club

Elbasani
  • Albanian Superliga (1): 2005-06


Teuta
  • Albanian Superliga Runner Up (1): 2006-07


Besa
  • Albanian Cup (1): 2009-10


Skenderbeu
  • Albanian Superliga (1): 2010-11
  • SuperSport Trophy
    SuperSport Trophy
    The SuperSport Trophy is a yearly football pre-season tournament played by 3 Albanian football teams, organized by SuperSport Albania. This is an unofficial tournament that has been held yearly since 2011...

    (1): 2010-11
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