Bekim Kastrati


Bekim Kastrati is an Albania former professional footballer who played the majority of his career in Germany.

Club career

He is a striker who had joined Bonn from Dynamo Dresden in January 2010, switching to Wuppertaler SV Borussia in May. Prior to playing for Düsseldorf he had played for a number of German clubs including Fortuna Düsseldorf, Eintracht Braunschweig and Borussia Mönchengladbach.

Injury

In January 2008, Fortuna Düsseldorf hosted the SWD Wintercup, inviting Bundesliga sides SV Werder Bremen, Borussia Dortmund and Bayer 04 Leverkusen over for a short one-day tournament. Fortuna won it, beating Dortmund 1–0 in the final. The winning goal was scored by Kastrati. A few days later, Fortuna played a friendly against Bayern Munich. Bayern won 3–2, thanks to goals by Jan Schlaudraff and Luca Toni. Kastrati had a chance to equalise in the 89th minute, but he unfortunately crashed into Bayern's third choice keeper Bernd Dreher. It was this incident where he suffered a fractured testicle and had to be brought to a hospital to undergo an emergency operation.

International career

He made his debut for Albania in a March 2006 friendly match against Georgia in Tirana and earned a total of 2 caps, scoring no goals. His second and final international was a September 2006 European Championship qualification match against Romania.