Basri Tupella
| Basri Tupella | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal information | |||
| Full name | Basri Tupella | ||
| Born |
1959 Mitrovica, FPR Yugoslavia | ||
| Nationality | Yugoslavian | ||
| Playing position | Center | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Years | Team | ||
–1974 | Trepça | ||
| Senior clubs | |||
| Years | Team | ||
1974–1978 | Trepça | ||
1979–1980 | Kastrioti | ||
1981–1982 | Trepça | ||
| Proleter Zrenjanin | |||
| Novi Pazar | |||
1987–1989 | Borci | ||
1989 | CDC Tenerife | ||
1991–1997 | Trepça | ||
Basri Tupella was a Kosovan handball player. He played for several clubs in Yugoslavia and also for CDC Tenerife in Spain. Tupella is regarded as one of the greatest Albanian handball players of all time.[1]
Disappearence
During the Kosovo War in June 1999, Serbian military forces arrested Tupella together with his brother and nephew.[2] Basri Tupella was possibly murdered by the Serbian forces and is declared missing since June 1999.[3]
Honours
- KH Trepça
- Yugoslav Regional Championship: 1974–75
- Kosovar Superliga: 1993–94
- Kosovar Cup: 1994[4]
References
- ^ Kemajl Goca (24 July 2022). "Basri Tupella shënoi 13 gola në Zagreb, por çfarë ngjau në ndeshjen me Medveshçakun në luftë për vend të parë?". Bota Sot (in Albanian).
- ^ "BIRN Launches 'If You Were Here' Missing Persons Campaign". balkaninsight.com.
The last time Fluturije Tupella saw her husband Basri Tupella was at the beginning of June 1999. He was a well-known handball player from Mitrovica in Kosovo who had represented both Kosovo and Yugoslavia at the sport. At the very end of the war in Kosovo, Serbian military forces took him away together with his brother and nephew, and Fluturije Tupella never saw them again.
- ^ "BURYING THE PAST 10 YEARS OF IMPUNITY FOR ENFORCED DISAPPEARANCES AND ABDUCTIONS IN KOSOVO" (PDF). amnesty.org. p. 65.
- ^ "Kush e fitoi finalen Trepça – Besa në vitin 1994? Ja formacionet dhe golat". gazeta.mk (in Albanian).
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- 1990s missing person cases
- Missing people
- Missing person cases in Europe
- Civilian casualties in the Kosovo War
- Kosovo Albanians
- Sportspeople from Mitrovica, Kosovo
- Yugoslav male handball players
- Kosovan handball players
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- KH Kastrioti players
- RK Proleter Zrenjanin players
- Kosovan expatriate sportspeople in Serbia
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