Arbër Basha (born 13 January 1998) is an

Albania Albania ( ; or ), officially the Republic of Albania (), is a country in Southeast Europe. It is located in the Balkans, on the Adriatic Sea, Adriatic and Ionian Seas within the Mediterranean Sea, and shares land borders with Montenegro to ...

n footballer who plays as a

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for Liria Prizren in Kosovo.

Career

Narva Trans

Basha began his professional career in Kosovo, spending time in the youth ranks at Vllaznia before returning to his native Albania with Kamza, albeit making no first-team appearances. In June 2018, Basha moved to Estonian club

Narva Trans Jalgpalliklubi Narva Trans, commonly known as Narva Trans or simply Trans, is an Estonian professional football club based in Narva that competes in the Meistriliiga, the top flight of Estonian football. Although the club's traditional home gro ...

. Basha's goal was to use the move to prompt an eventual transfer to the

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. He made his competitive debut for the club on 12 July 2018 in a

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tie against Željezničar; a 2–0 defeat. He scored his first goal for the club in August of that year, the fifth in a 7–0 victory over SK Kadrina.

Kastrioti

In August 2019, Basha returned to Albania, joining then-

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club

Kastrioti The Kastrioti were an Albanian noble family, active in the 14th and 15th centuries as the rulers of the Principality of Kastrioti. At the beginning of the 15th century, the family controlled a territory in the Mat and Dibra regions. The most not ...

. He made his competitive debut for the club on 14 September 2019 in a 3–2 victory over Egnatia.

International career

In October 2018, Basha was called up to the Albania U21 team.

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* 1998 births Living people KF Vllaznia Pozheran players FC Kamza players JK Narva Trans players KS Kastrioti players Kategoria e Parë players Meistriliiga players Albanian men's footballers Albanian expatriate men's footballers Men's association football midfielders Albanian expatriate sportspeople in Estonia Expatriate men's footballers in Estonia 21st-century Albanian sportsmen {{Albania-footy-midfielder-stub