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The master of Korça and Albanian football, Teodor Vaso, passed away at the age of 83.
The death of the Albanian football legend came suddenly as he was very active until the last moment of his life.
Teodor Vaso is one of the most popular names in Albanian football. Since the championship titles with Tirana and Partizan, during his football career, the master of ball-footing has scored 26 goals in a defensive role, and has been a representative in 36 international matches, 18 matches with the Albanian national team, 15 matches with the Partizani team and 3 with the Korça team.
The well-known Korçari during his football life had the luck to play with the most famous European footballers of the time, including Overat, the great of German football, not to mention Franz Beckenbauer and other equally well-known names.
Teodor Vaso is part of our national team that stopped Germany from going to the finals of the European Championship in 1967.
Teodor Vaso is undoubtedly the hero of this match, as coach Loro Boriçi would ask him to play in this unrepeatable match with such an injury, sacrificing for the red and black shirt.
One of the 5 best athletes of 1968 in the composition of the Albanian national football team for the extraordinary result in the 0-0 draw with the world champion, the German RF.
On 17.12.1967, he was named among the 11 best of Albanian football, in the 55th anniversary of our football, published in the newspaper.
He was also named Korça's footballer of the century in 1998 and was also decorated with a gold medal for outstanding merit by the Ministry of Education and Sports.
He played 46 international matches, of which 20 were with the national team, as the player with the most matches among the Korčići footballers, according to published official statistics.
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