Riza Lushta (born 22 January 1916 in Kosovska Mitrovica

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, Kingdom of Serbia

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 – died in 1997 in Torino, Italy

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) was a Kosovar Albanian

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 football

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 striker.

After a youth start with FK Rudari Trepča

KF Trepca

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, he started his career at SK Tirana

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, and won four Albanian titles with the team (1934

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, 1936

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, 1937

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 and 1939, the latter one not recognized by the Albanian Football Association) and the first Albanian Cup in 1939.

He then emigrated to Italy

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 to play with A.S. Bari

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, and then Juventus F.C.

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 (won one Coppa Italia

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 in 1942), and Napoli

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, after which he went to France

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 to play with AS Cannes

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. Eventually he went back to Italy and played with Alessandria

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, and then in Italian Third Division

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 with Siena

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 and in Italian Fourth Division

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 with Forlì

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, and the Rapallo Ruentes, the team of Rapallo

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.

He closed his career in 1954 at 38 years old.

Overall he played he played 170 matches in Serie A

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, scoring 68 goals; with Juventus, he played the Italian War Tournament 1943-44 (5 matches and 5 goal scored). He never played for the Albania national football team

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. He died at 80 years old.