20 Facts About Igli Tare

Igli Tare is the former sporting director at Serie A club Lazio.

Igli Tare played in the lower leagues of Germany for Sudwest Ludwigshafen and VfR Mannheim before joining Bundesliga side Karlsruher SC in 1996, initially playing for their reserve side before making his Bundesliga debut in 1996.

Igli Tare remained at Brescia for a further two seasons, and he scored a total of 15 league goals in 75 games before joining fellow Serie A side Bologna in 2003.

Igli Tare spent two years at the club and scored 11 league goals in 55 games, before joining Lazio in a surprise move in 2005 following Brescia's relegation to Serie B Igli Tare was primarily used as a backup player at Lazio and he only scored four goals in 54 league games before retiring as a player at the age of 34 in 2008.

Igli Tare studied at the Qemal Stafa High School, in Tirana, Albania.

Igli Tare began his professional career in 1996 with Karlsruher SC in Germany where he remained until 1997 before moving to Fortuna Dusseldorf in the 2.

For five seasons, Igli Tare played with Mazzone's Brescia, where he was able to play alongside Roberto Baggio, before again transferring, this time to Bologna where he was reunited with Mazzone .

Igli Tare was not a regular starter under Delio Rossi, but was able to play and score vital goals when others were out with injuries.

In late 2007 away to Palermo, Igli Tare scored off a Lorenzo De Silvestri cross, ending a scoring drought which stretched back for almost two years.

Igli Tare backed this goal up with another vital goal in the Coppa Italia against Napoli, which proved to be the winner.

Igli Tare was capped 68 times by the Albania national team and scored ten goals.

Igli Tare then accepted a non-playing role at Lazio, becoming the club's team manager.

Igli Tare is a well known supporter of Albanian related issues.

Igli Tare was a supporter of the Albanian cause and the Kosovo Liberation Army during the Kosovo war.

Igli Tare helped the Albanian refugees who had been expelled during the Kosovo war with money and accommodation in Albania.

Igli Tare said Mihajlovic had provoked him the entire First Half and then he had responded accordingly.

Igli Tare later told the Albanian media that he did not regret anything.

However Igli Tare refused to accept Sinisa Mihajlovic as the new coach for Lazio and at the end prevented the move.

Igli Tare's brother Auron Tare, is a famous Albanian journalist and his brother Agron Tare is director at the Port of Durres.

Igli Tare's son Etienne was born on 2003 and followed on his footsteps, becoming a striker too and now being part of the Lazio Primavera squad.