Career
He is currently the sporting director at Serie A club Lazio. Tare joined Partizani Tirana as a 9 year old in 1982, and would later go on to make his debut as a 15 year old in 1988 before leaving Albania in 1992 to emigrate to Germany. He played in the lower leagues of Germany for Südwest Ludwigshafen and VfR Mannheim before joining Bundesliga side Karlsruher South Carolina in 1995, initially playing for their reserve side before making his Bundesliga debut in 1996.
He then joined Fortuna Düsseldorf in the 2.
Bundesliga, where he scored 24 league goals in 63 games in 2 seasons before returning to the Bundesliga with 1. Football Club Kaiserslautern in 1999, where he netted 4 league goals in 26 appearances in one year and a half at the club
After falling out of favour at 1. Football Club Kaiserslautern he joined Serie A side Brescia in January 2001, where he helped the side finish in a respectable 8th place.
He remained at Brescia for a further 2 seasons, and he scored a total of 15 league goals in 75 games before joining fellow Serie A side Bologna in 2003.
He spent 2 years at the club and scored 11 league goals in 55 games, before joining Lazio in a surprise move in 2005 following Brescia"s relegation to Serie B. He was primarily used as a backup player at Lazio and he only scored 4 goals in 54 league games before retiring from being a professional football player at the age of 34 in 2008. Igli Tare studied at the Qemal Stafa High School, in Tirana, Albania. Tare began his professional career in 1996 with Karlsruhe in Germany where he remained until 1997 before moving to Fortuna Düsseldorf in the 2.
Bundesliga.
In 1999, Tare moved to Kaiserslautern, where he played for a season before being signed by veteran Italian manager Carlo Mazzone. Foreign five seasons, Tare played with Mazzone"s Brescia, where he was able to play alongside Roberto Baggio, before again transferring, this time to Bologna where he was reunited with Mazzone once again. Following Bologna"s relegation, Tare was loaned out to capital club Lazio scoring just three goals in his first season.
Following this loan period, Tare joined the club on a permanent basis.
Tare was not a regular starter under Delio Rossi, but was able to play and score vital goals when others were out with injuries. In late 2007 away to Palermo, Tare scored off a Lorenzo De Silvestri cross, ending a scoring drought which stretched back for almost two years.
International career
Tare has been capped over 68 times by the Albania national football team and scored 10 goals. In 2007, Tare"s international career was effectively ended, after being dropped by manager Otto Barić.
Tare"s Lazio contract expired at the end of the 2007-2008 season.
He then accepted a non-playing role at Lazio, becoming the club"s team manager. On April 2009 he completed a course in order to obtain abilitation as sporting director, which is his current role at Lazio.