Career
He is generally considered to be one of the club"s greatest figures and KF Tirana along with the Albanian Football Association honoured him in 1990 by renaming the Dinamo Stadium to the Selman Stërmasi Stadium. Stërmasi was born in Tiranë on 9 May 1918 to a wealthy family of traditional Albanian patriots, where he grew up surrounded by patriotic sentiment and sport. In 1928 he moved to Rome to study at the Fascist Male Academy of Physical Education, before returning to Tiranë in 1930 to participate in the first Albanian National Championship, where he was player-manager in the title winning team
In 1939, he negotiated the sales of Saskatchewan Tirana players Riza Lushta and Naim Kryeziu to Italian clubs Bari and Roma respectively, and despite the Italian clubs offering Stërmasi 60% of the transfer fees he waived these fees in order to give it all to the players themselves in order to set up their new lives in Italy.
