Allen Njie

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Allen Njie
Personal information
Date of birth (1999-07-26) 26 July 1999 (age 25)
Place of birth Barnesville, Liberia
Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) [1]
Position(s) Midfielder
Youth career
Pepper Football Club
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2016–2019 LISCR
2019–2021 Grasshopper 18 (2)
2020Bnei Sakhnin (loan) 0 (0)
2021Slaven Belupo (loan) 1 (0)
2021–2023 Aarau 60 (2)
2024 Vaduz 15 (0)
International career
2018 Liberia U20 5 (0)
2018– Liberia 20 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 28 May 2024
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 17:54, 28 March 2023 (UTC)

Allen Njie (born 26 July 1999) is a Liberian footballer who plays as a midfielder. [2]

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Club career

Born in Barnesville, Njie has played for Liberian clubs Pepper FC and LISCR as well as Swiss club Grasshopper. [1] [3]

In October 2020 he moved on loan to Israeli club Bnei Sakhnin. [4]

In February 2021 he moved on loan to Croatian club Slaven Belupo. [5]

In July 2021, he moved to Swiss club FC Aarau. [6] In autumn 2023, he missed a number of games for personal reasons and subsequently his contract with Aarau was dissolved by mutual consent on 29 November 2023. [7]

He signed with Liechtenstein side FC Vaduz on 20 December 2023 to begin in the second half of the season. [8] On 30 April, Vaduz announced that they would not extend his contract after the end of the season. [9]

International career

After playing for the Liberian under-20 team, [3] he made his senior international debut for Liberia in 2018. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Allen Njie". National Football Teams. Benjamin Strack-Zimmermann. Retrieved 19 September 2018.
  2. Allen Njie at Soccerway. Retrieved 21 January 2024.
  3. 1 2 "Allen Njie Completes Grasshopper Move". LISCR FC. 16 February 2019. Archived from the original on 6 March 2019. Retrieved 5 March 2019.
  4. Quaye, Peterking (6 October 2020). "Allen Njie signs for Isreali [sic] top side Bnei Sakhnin".
  5. "NK Slaven Belupo Sign Liberian Midfielder Allen Njie On Loan From Grasshoppers Zurich -". 21 February 2021. Archived from the original on 4 February 2022. Retrieved 21 February 2021.
  6. "Allen Njie". 9 August 2021.
  7. "Vertrag mit Allen Njie per sofort aufgelöst". 29 November 2023. Retrieved 20 December 2023.
  8. "FC Vaduz verpflichtet Allen Njie" (in Swiss High German). FC Vaduz. 20 December 2023. Retrieved 20 December 2023.
  9. "Lüchinger bleibt, Ibrisimovic geht" (in Swiss High German). FC Vaduz. 30 April 2024. Retrieved 2 May 2024.