Mirel Josa

Mirel Josa

Personal information
Full name	Mirel Josa
Date of birth	1 June 1963 (1963-06-01) (age 48)
Place of birth	Tirana, Albania
Height	1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Club information
Current club	Vllaznia Shkodër

Mirel Josa (born 1 June 1963^[1]) is an Albanian football coach and former player, who currently works as head coach of KS Vllaznia.

Career

Josa played for Kavala F.C. and Aris Thessaloniki F.C. in the Greek Alpha Ethniki.^[2]

International career

Josa made 27 appearances for the Albania national football team from 1984 to 1992.^[3]

Coaching career

Tirana (2003–2006)

After his playing career ended, he started coaching KF Tirana. He was the coach of the capital team from 2003 to 2006, where he won three league championships, a domestic cup and three super cups.

Vllaznia(2006–2008)

Josa then coached the northern team where he started off very well, with 68% wins in his first year, and earned Vllaznia third place in the league table. The next season Vllaznia went four places down the table, ending up in seventh.

Elbasani(2008–2009)

After being fired by Vllaznia, Josa coached Elbasani in the 2008-2009 season, the team got relegated to the first division due to financial reasons that year.

Teuta(2009–2010)

The next managerial step was coaching Teuta, the team of Durrës. The team finished the season in the 8th place.

Shkumbini(2010–2011)

Josa coached Shkumbini only for a few matches and left for Vllaznia in the same year.

Vllaznia 2010–

Vllaznia fired two coaches in the same year, and the third one was destined to be Josa, his return to Vllaznia came with success. After being a midtable team last year, Vllaznia challenged for the title, and went on an unbeaten run of 12 matches.

References

1. ^ Mirel Josa at National-Football-Teams.com
2. ^ Mastrogiannopoulos, Alexander (2005-05-11). "Foreign Players in Greece since 1959/60". RSSSF. http://www.rsssf.com/players/foreign-players-in-grk6080.html. Retrieved 2009-10-15. 
3. ^ Hoxha, Florent and Mamrud, Roberto (2009-07-16). "Albania - Record International Players". RSSSF. http://www.rsssf.com/miscellaneous/alba-recintlp.html. Retrieved 2009-10-15. 

Persondata
Name	Josa, Mirel
Alternative names
Short description	footballer
Date of birth	1 June 1966
Place of birth	Tirana, Albania
Date of death
Place of death