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Thomas Strakosha
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Thomas Strakosha is a male association football player from Greece and Albania. Born in Athens on March 19, 1995, he plays as a goalkeeper. His father is Foto Strakosha, and he speaks Albanian as his native language. Strakosha began his professional work period in 2012.
He has represented the Albania national under-17, under-19, and under-21 association football teams. At the club level, he has been a member of U.S. Salernitana 1919 and AEK. His physical measurements include a height of 186 and a mass of 80. He wears the sport number 1.
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Key facts
- 2017
- Albania
- 2024
- AEK Athens
- Full name
- Thomas Strakosha
- Date of birth
- ( 1995-03-19 ) 19 March 1995 (age 31)
- Place of birth
- Athens , Greece
- Height
- 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)
- Position
- Goalkeeper
- Current team
- AEK Athens
- 2007 2010
- APOEL
- 2010 2012
- Panionios
- 2012 2014
- Lazio
- Years
- Team
- 2013 2022
- Lazio
- 2015 2016
- → Salernitana (loan)
- 2022 2024
- Brentford
- 2012 2013
- Albania U19
- 2013 2016
- Albania U21
via Wikipedia infobox
Sports profile
- Sport
- Soccer
- Team
- AEK
- Position
- Goalkeeper
- Nationality
- Albania
via TheSportsDB
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Thomas
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Albania
- Place of birth
- Athens
- Father
- Foto Strakosha
- Occupation
- association football player
- Languages spoken
- Albanian
- Native language
- Albanian
- Sport
- association football
- Member of team
- AEK Athens F.C.
- Position played
- goalkeeper
- Country for sport
- Albania
- Mass
- 80
- Image
- Thomas Strakosha01.jpg
- Height
- 186
Show 6 more facts
- date of birth
- 1995-03-19
- sport number
- 1
- Commons category
- Thomas Strakosha
- start of work period
- 2012-00-00
- birth name
- Thomas Strakosha
- name in native language
- Θωμάς Στρακόσια
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Encyclopedic overview
Thomas Strakosha ( Albanian pronunciation: [ˈtɔmas straˈkɔʃa]; born 19 March 1995) is a professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Super League Greece club AEK Athens and the Albania national team.
Born in Athens, he began his youth career at APOEL in Cyprus while his father Foto worked there as a goalkeeping coach, before moving to Panionios. He joined Lazio in 2011 and progressed through the club’s youth system, later making his senior debut and making over 200 appearances, winning the Coppa Italia and the Supercoppa Italiana twice each. In 2022, he signed for Brentford, where he made limited first-team appearances, before joining AEK Athens in 2024 and becoming the club's first-choice goalkeeper, winning the 2025–26 Super League Greece.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Thomas Strakosha” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.