Allen Njie

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Allen Njie
Personal information
Date of birth (1999-07-26) 26 July 1999 (age 24)
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)
2020 → Bnei Sakhnin (loan) 0 (0)
2021 → Slaven 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.
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