Liridon Osmanaj

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Liridon Osmanaj
Personal information
Full name Liridon Osmanaj
Date of birth (1992-01-04) 4 January 1992 (age 31)
Place of birth Maribor, Slovenia
Height 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s) Forward
Youth career
0000–2011 Maribor
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2011 Maribor 0 (0)
2011–2013 Domžale 34 (5)
2013 Aluminij 8 (1)
2014 SC Kalsdorf II 1 (0)
2014 Partizani Tirana 13 (1)
2015 Widzew Łódź 9 (2)
2015–2017 Radomlje 25 (9)
2017 Al-Shamal
2017–2018 Nafta 1903 16 (0)
2018–2019 Concordia Basel
2019–2020 SC Dornach
2020–2021 FC Dardania
2021–2022 FC Laufen
International career
2008 Slovenia U16 2 (0)
2010 Slovenia U19 2 (0)
2011–2012 Slovenia U20 4 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 19 September 2019

Liridon Osmanaj (born 4 January 1992) is a Slovenian retired footballer. As a youngster he was a prolific goalscorer with Maribor's youth team and even attracted the interest of Chelsea, where he went on trial as a teenager. [1]

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Club career

Osmanaj went on trial with Albanian Superliga club Partizani Tirana on 14 August 2014, [2] which proved to be a successful one as he was offered a contract with the club and he signed a week later. [3]

He played with Widzew Łódź in the Polish I liga.

On 10 January 2017, he joined Al-Shamal Sports Club in Qatar. [4]

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References

  1. Chelsea to take close look at Maribor striker Liridon Osmanaj
  2. "Duro: Maghales drejt largimit, Liridon Osmanaj sot nis provën". Archived from the original on 2014-10-15. Retrieved 2014-10-09.
  3. Partizani, prezantohen Fazliu e Osmanaj Archived 2014-10-09 at archive.today
  4. Peter Dominko (10 January 2017). "Osmanaj združil moči z nekdanjim trenerjem Zavrča in Kopra" [Osmanaj joined former Zavrc and Koper manager in Qatar] (in Slovenian). SNPortal.si. Retrieved 10 January 2017.