Klisman Cake (born 2 May 1999) is an Albanian professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Macedonian club Shkëndija in the Macedonian First Football League and the Albania national under-21 football team.
Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | (1999-05-02) 2 May 1999 (age 23) | ||
Place of birth | Pogradec, Albania | ||
Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||
Position(s) | Centre-back | ||
Club information | |||
Current team | Shkëndija | ||
Number | 5 | ||
Youth career | |||
2007–2016 | Tirana | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2017–2019 | Tirana B | 5 | (0) |
2017–2019 | Tirana | 31 | (1) |
2019–2022 | Struga | 63 | (7) |
2022– | Shkëndija | 11 | (0) |
National team‡ | |||
2017– | Albania U19 | 2 | (0) |
2018– | Albania U21 | 1 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 22 December 2017 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 24 April 2017 |
Cake started his youth career with KF Tirana at age of 8. In 2011 he was placed at under-17 side. In the 2015–16 season he was named Captain and on 10 February 2016 he scored 1 goal via a Penalty kick to help his team to win the under-17 national cup beating 2–1 Olimpic U17 in the final. Then in the 2016–17 season he made an amazing progress through ranks playing with 3 different levels of KF Tirana's from under-19 to senior team. He started by playing with Under 19 side in the first half of the season during where he was called up to play with Tirana B in two occasions. Then in the second half of the season he became a regular member of the senior team under coach Mirel Josa following an "Window winter transfers bann" received from the club which made them to believe at academies products such as Cake, Grent Halili, Albi Doka and Marlind Nuriu.[1][2]
Cake received his first international level call up at the Albania national under-19 football team by coach Erjon Bogdani for a gathering in Durrës, Albania in April 2017 where they also played two friendly matches.[3]
Club | Season | League | Cup | Europe[lower-alpha 1] | Other[lower-alpha 2] | Total | ||||||
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Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
Tirana B | 2016–17 | Albanian Second Division | 2 | 0 | — | — | — | 2 | 0 | |||
2017–18 | 2 | 0 | — | — | — | 2 | 0 | |||||
Total | 4 | 0 | — | — | — | 4 | 0 | |||||
Tirana | 2016–17 | Albanian Superliga | 9 | 0 | 2 | 0 | — | — | 11 | 0 | ||
2017–18 | Albanian First Division | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 5 | 0 | ||
Total | 14 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 16 | 0 | |||
Career total | 18 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 20 | 0 |
KF Shkëndija – current squad | |
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