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Sport In Kosovo
Sport in Kosovo has established tradition and plays a prominent role in society. Popular sports in Kosovo include football, basketball, volleyball, handball, and rugby, whereas major individual sports include wrestling, judo, swimming, boxing, karate and skiing. Individual sports have led to Kosovo's biggest successes. Outstanding boxers such as Aziz Salihu, Mehmet Bogujevci, Sami Buzolli, Besim Kabashi. Judokas like Majlinda Kelmendi and Nora Gjakova, Distria Krasniqi have won medals in major international competitions. Some of the federations that are part of the international associations are Kosovo Taekwondo Federation, Boxing Federation, Handball Federation, Judo Federation, and Kosovo Ski Federation. Nevertheless, athletes who were born and raised in European countries had the opportunity to be successful in the international arena. Association football The most popular sport in Kosovo is football. The playing of football in Kosovo is documented since at least 1914. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kosovo
Kosovo ( sq, Kosova or ; sr-Cyrl, Косово ), officially the Republic of Kosovo ( sq, Republika e Kosovës, links=no; sr, Република Косово, Republika Kosovo, links=no), is a partially recognised state in Southeast Europe. It lies at the centre of the Balkans. Kosovo unilaterally declared its independence from Serbia on 17 February 2008, and has since gained diplomatic recognition as a sovereign state by 101 member states of the United Nations. It is bordered by Serbia to the north and east, North Macedonia to the southeast, Albania to the southwest, and Montenegro to the west. Most of central Kosovo is dominated by the vast plains and fields of Dukagjini and Kosovo field. The Accursed Mountains and Šar Mountains rise in the southwest and southeast, respectively. Its capital and largest city is Pristina. In classical antiquity, the central tribe which emerged in the territory of Kosovo were Dardani, who formed an independent polity known as th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Distria Krasniqi
Distria Krasniqi (; born 10 December 1995) is a Kosovar judoka. She received a gold medal in the women's 48-kg judo competition at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. In August 2021, she was awarded the Honor of the Nation Decoration of Albania by the President of Albania. Life and career Krasniqi took up the sport at the age of seven and was encouraged by her brother with whom she practiced the sport. In mid 2018, Krasniqi later switched to the super lightweight category of 48 kilograms from 52 kg event after missing out on qualifying for the 2016 Summer Olympics. As a result, she avoided her fellow Kosovan teammate and 2016 Olympic champion Majlinda Kelmendi in the light weight division, as well as Nora Gjakova, the 2018 European light weight champion in the qualification round for the 2020 Olympic Games. Krasniqi won bronze medal in the 48 kg category at the 2019 World Judo Championships. In 2020, she won one of the bronze medals in the women's 48 kg event at t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KF Feronikeli
FC Feronikeli 74 ( sq, Klubi Futbollistik Feronikeli 74), commonly referred to as Feronikeli 74 and colloquially known as Feronikeli is a professional football club based in Drenas, Kosovo. The club play in the Football Superleague of Kosovo, which is the top tier of football in the country. History In 1974, the club was founded as Nikeli. During the spring and summer of 1974, an intense activity took place in all aspects for the formation of the football club, its registration and inclusion in the Inter-Municipal Football League level, namely, at the District League of Pristina. At the top of this activity was the physical education teacher, Hashim Mala. On 8 April 1974, the Founding Assembly of the Football Club was held in the Glogovac Municipal Assembly Hall. In this assembly was founded the club, which was named Nikeli with headquarters in Glogovac. Then, the headship of the club was elected, the 11-member presidency with Tahir Ajazi as president, vice-president Murtes Zogu, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KF Kosova Vushtrri
KF Vushtrria is a football club based in Vushtrri, Kosovo. The club was founded in 1922, and currently play their home games at the Ferki Aliu Stadium in the city of Vushtrri which has a capacity of 6,000 supporters. The most notable players to have played for the club and have been former Albania internationals Armend Dallku, Ahmed Januzi and Kosovo international Milot Rashica, Besnik Kollari. History KF Vushtrria is the oldest football club in Kosovo. It was founded in 1922 and it has been competing domestically in Kosovo ever since. Throughout the years after World War II, Vushtrri became one of the most renowned football clubs in Kosovo due to producing some of Kosovos’ best young talents. Many of these players were transferred to other Kosovar clubs such as Prishtina and Trepça due to them playing in former Yugoslav First League. After the Kosovo War, the citizens & supporters returned to its stadium stands. Although regularly fighting relegation throughout the seaso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KF Drenica
KF Drenica ( sq, Klubi Futbollistik Drenica), commonly known as Drenica is a professional football club based in Skënderaj, Kosovo. The club plays in the Football Superleague of Kosovo, which is the top tier of football in the country. Players Current squad Personnel Historical list of coaches * Valdet Shoshi (2005 - 2007) * Tahir Lushtaku ( - 3 Jun 2013) * Fadil Rama (30 Jun 2013 - 18 Sep 2013) * Afrim Jashari (19 Sep 2013 - 16 Mar 2014) * Mehmet Mehmeti (18 Mar 2014 - Jun 2015) * Fadil Rama (29 Jul 2015 - Sep 2015) * Valdet Shoshi (16 Sep 2015 - 17 Mar 2016) * Fadil Rama (18 Mar 2016 -Jun 2016) * Afrim Jashari (Jul 2016 - 25 Nov 2016) * Bekim Shotani (17 Jun 2017 - Dec 2017) * Sadat Pajaziti (4 Jan 2018 - Jun 2018) * Tahir Lushtaku (Jul 2018 - Dec 2019) * Gani Sejdiu (3 Jan 2020 -) Bledar Devolli, trajner i ri i Bledar Devolli Bledar Devolli (born 15 January 1978) is an A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KF Hajvalia
KF Hajvalia ( sq, Klubi Futbollistik Hajvalia), commonly known as Hajvalia was a professional football club based in village Hajvalia of Pristina, Kosovo. The club last played in the First Football League of Kosovo, which is the second-tier of football in the country. History Trying to buy Luis Suárez In June 2014 after Luis Suárez was suspended from FIFA because of the bite that made to Giorgio Chiellini. Hajvalia sent an offer the Liverpool Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. With a population of in 2019, it is the 10th largest English district by population and its metropolitan area is the fifth largest in the United Kingdom, with a populat ... for Suárez with a four month duration as much as his four-month suspension from football was. The offer was £24,000 (€30,000) and a salary of €1,500 for each month. Honours Notes and references Notes References External links * KF Hajvalia at Soccerway Association foot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KF Trepça
Klubi Futbollistik Trepça, commonly known as KF Trepça, is a football club based in the southern part of Mitrovica, Kosovo. The club was founded in 1932.Alo!: KF Trepça is the first Kosovo Football club to gain promotion in to the Yugoslav First League) in 1977-78 after winning the Yugoslav Second League in 1976–77 as the first Club in Kosovo to do so. Trepça was one of only two Clubs in Kosovo with KF Prishtina who competed in the Yugoslav First League. They also reached the Finals off the 1977–78 Yugoslav Cup in which they lost against HNK Rijeka with 0-1 being also the first and only Kosovo Football Club to achieve this success. History Trepça was founded in 1932 by workers of the Trepça Mines in Mitrovica during the period of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. From the founding year until 1938, the club did not have an own venue, so coached and played on a playing field in the neighboring town Zveçan. In 1938, a small field was built where they played until th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KF Hysi
KF Hysi (Klubi Futbollistik Hysi) was a football club based in Podujevo, in the District of Pristina, Kosovo, that was founded in 2002. History They were in the top division of football in Kosovo, the Raiffeisen Superliga. KF Hysi won their promotion from the second division, Liga e Parë, to the top division, then called Kosovar Superliga, during the 2005–06 season. KF Hysi was coached by Adil Vokrri, the brother of the most famous Kosovar Albanian football player Fadil Vokrri and by the well-known Kosovar football coach, Hysni Maxhuni and Luan Prekazi. Chief executive of the club was Arbnor Morina. Academy coordinator was another Kosovar football legend, Luan Prekazi. The club was member of the Hysi Group, one of the biggest companies in Kosovo, that are under the ownership of Mr. Isen Sadiku. They were the only private football club in the elite division of Kosovo. KF Hysi opened its new ground in Merdar, near Podujevo, in 2007. In the 2008–09 season, KF Hysi won the K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KF Prishtina
Football Club Prishtina ( sq, Klubi Futbollistik Prishtina, ; sr, Фудбалски клуб Приштина, Fudbalski klub Priština), commonly known as Prishtina, is a professional football club based in Prishtina, Kosovo. The club play in the Football Superleague of Kosovo, and is the most successful club in Kosovo. The club is also the only club in Kosovo to have never have been relegated from the league. History The club was founded in 1922 under the name Kosova. Later on their name changed to Proleter, Jedinstvo, Kosova and finally Prishtina. 1922–1926: Beginnings of FC Prishtina (Futboll Klub Kosova) Football in Kosovo has been played and developed since 1919, shortly after the end of the First World War. Many demobilized soldiers and officers, as well as students studying at universities in France, Switzerland, Italy, Austria, England, Bucharest, Budapest, and elsewhere, began to return to their home countries. Thus, a student of Samerslen College Grenoble (Franc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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