Dodë Tahiri was 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 international football player. He was the goalkeeper

Goalkeeper

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 at Albanian first ever international match against Yugoslavia in 1946.

He made a total of 2 appearances for the Albanian national team

Albania national football team

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, both in 1946 in Tirana

Tirana

Tirana is the capital and the largest city of Albania. Modern Tirana was founded as an Ottoman town in 1614 by Sulejman Bargjini, a local ruler from Mullet, although the area has been continuously inhabited since antiquity. Tirana became Albania's capital city in 1920 and has a population of over...

 within the 1946

Balkan Cup 1946

The Balkans Cup 1946 was the 8th edition of this tournament. The Winner was the Albania national football team.-Table:...

 Balkan Cup

Balkan Cup

The Balkan Cup was an international football tournament played on and off between 1929 and 1980 between countries from the Balkan region. The first tournament was played between Romania, Greece, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria over 3 years from 1929 to 1931....

, the first against Yugoslavia (2-3 defeat) and the second against Bulgaria (3-1 win).

At club level, he played with KS Vllaznia Shkodër

KS Vllaznia Shkodër

Klub Futboll Vllaznia Shkodër is an Albanian football club based in Shkodër. KF Vllaznia have been Albanian champions nine times and won the National Cup six times, the last success coming at the end of the 2007–08 season, after a long 21 year drought in the competition...

 in Albania, and in Yugoslavia with ASK Obilić (nowadays FK Šumadija Aranđelovac in Serbia) during the 1930s and 1950s. At the end of the Second World War he played with Vllaznia winning the 1945 and 1946 Albanian Championship