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Albanian basketball player (born 1986)
Gerti Shima
Shima with the Albanian national basketball team
Personal information
Born (1986-05-06) May 6, 1986 (age 38)
Tirana, Albania
Listed height6 ft 8 in (2.03 m)
Listed weight225 lb (102 kg)
Career information
Playing career2001–2021
PositionPower forward
Career history
2001–2002Tirana
2004–2006Valbona
2006–2008Sigal Prishtina
2008–2011Tirana
2011–2012Čapljina Lasta
2012–2015Peja
2015-2016Bashkimi
2016Sigal Prishtina
2017–2021Tirana
Career highlights and awards

Gerti Shima (born 9 May 1986 in Tirana) Secretary General of NOC Albania from 2021, an Albanian former professional basketball player who last played for Albanian side KB Tirana in the Albanian Basketball Superliga. Shima transferred for the second time to Sigal Prishtina in January 2016. He made a big comeback to his hometown club, where he has been playing professionally since he was 15 years old, KB Tirana on 3 November 2016. He retired from basketball in September 2021,after he was elected in position of Secretary General in Albania National Olympic Committee. In 2006 he scored 91 points in a game with Valbona against Partizani, a league record that stood for ten years until Genti Lasku scored 100.

Career

Shima returned to Kosovo in September 2012 after securing a transfer to KB Peja, signing a one-year contract.

On 10 August 2015, Shima signed one-year contract for KB Bashkimi., but on 8 January 2016 he left KB Bashkimi.

On 11 January 2016, he signed one-year contract for Sigal Prishtina. On 3 November 2016, he made a come back to KB Tirana. Shima played from 2001 in the national team where he was the captain of Albania national team.

Since September 2021 he is in the position of Secretary General at Albania Olympic Committee

References

  1. Vyshka, Gjergj (17 April 2016). "Genti Lasku thyen rekordin 10-vjeçar të Shimës, shënon 100 pikë" (in Albanian). albaniansport.net. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
  2. Gerti Shima kalon te Peja
  3. Geri Shima firmos per Bashkimin e Prizrenit
  4. Zyrtarizohet Shima te Prishtina

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