Lavdie Begolli

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Lavdie Begolli
Personal information
Date of birth (1993-01-19) 19 January 1993 (age 31)
Place of birth Pristina, FR Yugoslavia [1]
Position(s) Midfielder
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2013 Juban Danja
2013–2014 Tirana AS
2014–2016 Vllaznia
2016–2017 Hajvalia
2017–2019 JyPS 63 (22)
2020–2024 KuPS 80 (53)
International career‡
2017–2022 Albania 11 (1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 24 June 2024
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 24 June 2024

Lavdie "Lavi" Begolli [2] (also Lavdije; born 19 January 1993) is an Albanian-Kosovan footballer who plays as a midfielder and has appeared for the Albania women's national team.

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Career

Begolli began her senior career with KFF Juban Danja in the 2012–13 Albanian Women's National Championship. She played for KFF Tirana AS during the 2013–14 Albanian Women's National Championship and then for KFF Vllaznia Shkodër in the 2014–15 and 2015–16 Albanian Women's National Championships.

On 30 June 2016, she transferred from Vllaznia to KFF Hajvalia in the Kosovo Women's Football League.

On 2 April 2017, Begolli transferred to Jyväskylän Pallokerho  [ fi ] (JyPS) in the Finnish Naisten Liiga (renamed 'Kansallinen Liiga' in 2019). [3] She played for JyPS from 2017 to 2019 and recorded 22 goals in 63 match appearances.

After three seasons with JyPS, she transferred to Kuopion Palloseura  [ fi ] (KuPS) in January 2020. Begolli was the top scorer of the Kansallinen Liiga in 2022, with 25 goals in 19 matches. [4]

National team

Begolli played for the national team during the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup qualifying cycle. [5]

Personal life

Begolli was born on 19 January 1993 to a Kosovar family living in Pristina, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. She is a citizen of the Republic of Kosovo and a naturalized citizen of the Republic of Albania. [2]

The Kosovo War began in 1998, when Begolli was five years old, and she experienced the horrors of war both in Pristina and as she and her family fled on foot to a refugee camp in Macedonia. They remained in Macedonia for a time before traveling via Slovenia to Germany, where they settled until it became possible to return to Pristina two years later. [2]

She began attending a culinary school in Kuopio in 2021 and has expressed a desire to work in a restaurant or open a restaurant of her own after her football career has concluded. [6]

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References

  1. ↑ "LAVDIE BEGOLLI". FSHF (in Albanian). Retrieved 18 November 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 Leppänen, Jelena (12 August 2022). "Kohti lentänyt luoti opetti, että kaikki voi päättyä hetkessä – Suomen jalkapallokentillä loistava Lavi Begolli näki lapsena sodan raakuuden". Yle (in Finnish). Retrieved 25 June 2024.
  3. ↑ "Gentjana Rochi ja Lavdije Begolli jatkavat JyPK:ssa". Finnish Football Association (in Finnish). 25 October 2017. Retrieved 25 June 2024.
  4. ↑ "IFFHS Women's World Best National Top Division Goal Scorer 2022: Begolli took the leadership !". International Federation of Football History and Statistics. 2 August 2022. Retrieved 25 June 2024.
  5. ↑ "Women World Cup Qualifiers Europe 2017/2018 » Teams (Albania)". WorldFootball.net. Retrieved 29 August 2019.
  6. ↑ "My kind of life in Kuopio". Kuopio by Nature. 1 March 2022. Retrieved 25 June 2024.


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