Football Club Prishtina, commonly known as Prishtina, is a professional football club based in Prishtina, Kosovo. The club play in the Football Superleague of Kosovo, is the most successful club in Kosovo, and is also the only Kosovar club to have never have been relegated from the league.
Sport in Kosovo is a tradition and plays a prominent role. Popular sports in Kosovo include football, basketball, volleyball, handball, and rugby, whereas major individual sports include wrestling, judo, swimming, boxing, karate and skiing.
Klubi i Basketbollit Prishtina, officially known as Sigal Prishtina Mercure due to sponsorship reasons, is a Kosovar professional basketball club based in Pristina.
Ryan Earl Richards is a British-Jamaican basketball player. He began playing in England and has played for short spells for numerous teams in several countries. He was drafted by the San Antonio Spurs with the 49th overall pick in the 2010 NBA draft, but never played a regular season game for the team.
Klubi i Basketbollit Trepça is a professional basketball club based in Mitrovicë, Kosovo. The club competes domestically in the Kosovo Basketball Superleague and Kosovo Cup and internationally in the Fiba Europe Cup. Trepça is one of the most successful clubs in Kosovo, Trepça has won 5 National Championships, 7 Kosovo Basketball Cups, 2 Kosovo Supercups, 1 Liga Unike and 1 Liga Unike Supercup.
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Prishtina is the epicenter of sport in Kosovo, where activity is organized across amateur and professional levels, sport organizations and clubs, regulated by the Kosovo Olympic Committee and the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport. Prishtina is known for their success in Sports such as Football, Boxing, Basketball and Futsal. They compete for five seasons in the Yugoslav First League between 1983 and 1988 in which their best finish came in their first ever season in 1983-84 finishing in 8th place. In the same season they reached the Mitropa Cup finals of 1983-84, were FC Prishtina finished Runners up to Eisenstadt from Austria. as well as reaching the semifinals in the Yugoslav Cup in 1987-88.
Alhaji Mohammed is an American-born Ghanaian former basketball player. A four-year college basketball player for Louisville, he started his 17-year long professional career in 2004.
Edmond "Edo" Azemi is a Kosovan former professional basketball player who played for KB Prishtina in Kosovo Basketball Superleague and in Balkan International Basketball League. He is ethnically Albanian. Edmond Azemi is one of the most successful players in the history of basketball in Kosovo. He started the career in Kosovo in KB Prishtina. Most of the years he played with KB Prishtina team where he made history winning 10x Kosovo Basketball superleague, 9x Kosovo Cups, 3x Kosovo Supercups and 2x Balkan League.
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