Amarildo Zela

Amarildo Zela (born 25 August 1972 in Tirana) is a retired Albanian footballer, who played as an attacking midfielder. He played two games for the Albania national football team in 1992 and in 1997.

Zela has played in 5 different countries through his career, and playing for 14 different teams in the process. He started his footballing career with KF Partizani Tirana before moving to Germany with Oberliga Nord side VfL Osnabrück. His first experience abroad was only a short one as he only spent 6 months at the club before moving back to Albania with SK Tirana in January 1994. After a season and a half back in Albania Zela decided to move to Croatia and the 1.HNL for the first time with NK Neretva Metković. Zela then moved to HNK Šibenik the next season where he teamed up with former Partizani team mate Ylli Shehu. It took just 6 months before his next move, this time i was to another Croatian club NK Vukovar '91 During his time with NK Vukovar Zela won promotion twice and teamed up with fellow Albanian Fatmir Vata for the 1999–2000 season after they were promoted to the top division in Croatia. He scored 10 goals that season in the 1.HNL. After 5 seasons and 4 clubs in Croatia, Zela moved to Israel with second tier side Hapoel Jerusalem F.C..