Blendar Kola

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Blendar "Christoforos" Kola is an Albanian former football midfielder who played most of his football in Greece.

Kola was born August 1, 1972 in Albania. He first started playing football in his native country for Beslidia. In 1990 he made the jump to Dinamo Tirana where he played a couple of years before coming to Greece to play for Panargiakos. In 1994, Kola debuted in the Alpha Ethniki for Apollon Athens where he played for two seasons before being acquired in 1996 by Panathinaikos. His next move was in 2001 to PAO's cross-town rivals AEK.

Kola closed out his career playing for smaller Athens clubs: Kallithea FC in 2003 and Apollon, once more, in 2004.

After his playing days were over Kola trained as a coach and is currently working at AEK's youth academy system.