Bekim Kastrati

Bekim Kastrati

Personal information
Date of birth	(1979-03-25) 25 March 1979
Place of birth	Peć, SFR Yugoslavia
Height	1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Position(s)	Forward
Youth career
	Budućnost Peć
	Germania Geistenbeck
0000–2000	1. FC Mönchengladbach
2000–2001	SC Wegberg
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2001–2002	FC Wegberg-Beeck	22	(4)
2002–2003	Aris Thessaloniki	0	(0)
2003–2004	Borussia Freialdenhoven	34	(13)
2004–2006	Borussia Mönchengladbach II	58	(41)
2005–2006	Borussia Mönchengladbach	4	(0)
2006–2007	Eintracht Braunschweig	6	(1)
2006–2007	→ Eintracht Braunschweig II	2	(1)
2007–2009	Fortuna Düsseldorf	37	(5)
2007–2009	→ Fortuna Düsseldorf II	7	(2)
2009–2010	Dynamo Dresden	8	(0)
2009–2010	→ Dynamo Dresden II	1	(2)
2010	Bonner SC	10	(5)
2010–2012	Wuppertaler SV Borussia	34	(5)
Total		223	(79)
International career
2006	Albania	2	(0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Bekim Kastrati (born 25 March 1979) is an Albanian former professional footballer who played as a forward and spent the majority of his career in Germany.

Club career

Kastrati number of German clubs including Fortuna Düsseldorf, Eintracht Braunschweig and Borussia Mönchengladbach. He joined Bonn from Dynamo Dresden in January 2010 before switching to Wuppertaler SV Borussia in May.

In January 2008, in a friendly between Fortuna Düsseldorf and Bayern Munich, Kastrati suffered a fractured testicle after colliding with Bayern's goalkeeper Bernd Dreher. He had to be brought to a hospital to undergo an emergency operation.

International career

Kastrati made his debut for the Albania national team in a March 2006 friendly match against Georgia in Tirana and earned a total of two caps, scoring no goals. His second and final international was a September 2006 European Championship qualification match against Romania.

External links

• Bekim Kastrati at National-Football-Teams.com
• Bekim Kastrati at fussballdaten.de (in German)