Aferdita Kameraj (born 5 June 1984) is a German former footballer who plays as a defender or

midfielder A midfielder is an outfield position in association football. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...

for Hamburger SV,

Turbine Potsdam 1. Frauenfußballclub Turbine Potsdam 71 e. V., commonly known as 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam (or Turbine Potsdam outside of Germany), is a German women's football club located in Potsdam, Brandenburg. They are one of the most successful women's footb ...

and Cloppenburg. She represented Germany internationally at youth levels U19, U21 and U23.

Career

Kameraj was born in

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 Euro ...

Yugoslavia Yugoslavia (; sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Jugoslavija, Југославија ; sl, Jugoslavija ; mk, Југославија ;; rup, Iugoslavia; hu, Jugoszlávia; rue, label=Pannonian Rusyn, Югославия, translit=Juhoslavija ...

. She moved to

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with her family when she was a little child. Her career began at the HEBC Hamburg. She then moved to FTSV Altenwerder before joining the Hamburger SV in 2000. She won promotion to the

Frauen-Bundesliga The Frauen-Bundesliga (German for ''Women's Federal League''), currently known as the FLYERALARM Frauen-Bundesliga for sponsorship reasons, is the top level of league competition for women's association football in Germany. In 1990 the German Foo ...

in 2001 and 2003 and played the

German Cup The DFB-Pokal ( is a German knockout football cup competition held annually by the German Football Association (DFB). Sixty-four teams participate in the competition, including all clubs from the Bundesliga and the 2. Bundesliga. It is considered ...

final in 2002 with the team. In 2006 Kameraj signed for

, with which she also played the UEFA Women's Cup. Two years later she returned to Hamburger SV, for which she played until the team withdrew from the Bundesliga for financial reasons in 2012. She then moved to Cloppenburg in the second tier. She made several appearances for Germany on the junior level, playing the 2004 U19 European Championship.Italy celebrate historic victory
UEFA, 25 July 2003

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* 1984 births Living people People from Deçan German women's footballers Women's association football defenders Women's association football midfielders Germany women's youth international footballers Hamburg-Eimsbütteler Ballspiel-Club players Hamburger SV (women) players 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam players BV Cloppenburg (women) players Kosovan expatriate sportspeople in Germany Expatriate women's footballers in Germany {{Germany-women-footy-bio-stub