Bruno Puja (born 20 January 2000) is an Albanian professional
footballer
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who plays as a
goalkeeper
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for Albanian club
Bylis.
Club career
Early career
Puja started his youth career at age 11 with hometown club
Besa Kavajë Besa or BESA may refer to:
Arts & entertainment
* ''Besa'' (newspaper), a newspaper published in Albania
* ''Besa'' (TV series), a Serbian-British television series produced by Adrenalin and Red Planet Pictures
* ''The Besa'', a novel by Albanian ...
. He joined the U-13 team on 1 September 2011.
During the 2015–16 season he played for the U-19 team in Albanian Superliga U-19 group B.
Besa Kavajë
He made his professional debut at age 15 with Besa Kavajë under coach
Dorjan Bubeqi
Dorjan Bubeqi (born 26 October 1978) is an Albanian football manager and a former player who serves as manager of Kastrioti in the Albanian First Division.
Club career
Bubeqi began his playing career in Besa Kavajë's youth system as a centre-f ...
in the
2015–16 Albanian Cup
2015–16 Albanian Cup () was the sixty-four season of Albania's annual cup competition. KF Laçi are the most recent winners of the competition, that being their second Cup trophy.
Ties are played in a two-legged format similar to those of Europ ...
match against
Laçi on 16 September 2015, coming on as a substitute at half-time in place of Klajdo Arkaxhiu. The match finished in a 1–3 loss.
Career statistics
Club
International career
Following his professional debut with
Besa Kavajë Besa or BESA may refer to:
Arts & entertainment
* ''Besa'' (newspaper), a newspaper published in Albania
* ''Besa'' (TV series), a Serbian-British television series produced by Adrenalin and Red Planet Pictures
* ''The Besa'', a novel by Albanian ...
in September 2015, Puja was immediately called up at
Albania national under-17 football team
The Albania national under-17 football team represents Albania in international football at this age level in the UEFA European Under-17 Championship, as well as any other under-17 international football tournaments. It is controlled by Albanian ...
by coach
Džemal Mustedanagić
Džemal Mustedanagić (born 8 June 1955) is a Bosnian-Herzegovinian retired footballer and current manager of the Albania national under-16 football team.
Playing career Club
Born in Bosanski Novi, his playing career started in FK Sloboda Bosan ...
to participate in the
2016 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualification
The 2016 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualification was a men's under-17 football competition organised by UEFA to determine the 15 national teams joining the automatically qualified hosts Azerbaijan in the 2016 UEFA European Under-17 Champi ...
from 22 to 27 October 2015. He played two full 80-minute matches on two first match-days against
Switzerland U17 and
Netherlands U17, but Albania U17 lost both matches. For the closing match against
Wales U17 he was an unused substitute and the coach Džemal Mustedanagić left his place to fellow goalkeeper Everest Braçe.
Bruno Puja matches
at Soccerway
References
External links
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archive
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2000 births
Living people
Footballers from Kavajë
Albanian men's footballers
Albania men's youth international footballers
Men's association football goalkeepers
KF Besa Kavajë players
KS Kastrioti players
KF Bylis players
Kategoria Superiore players
Kategoria e Parë players
21st-century Albanian sportsmen