Dardan Berisha (born 15 November 1988) is a Kosovan professional

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player for

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. He became a

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Polish citizen and has since represented Poland in international basketball due to Kosovo not having

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status until 2015. Dardan Berisha considered one of the best players of all time in Kosovo. He won the Kosovo Superleague 4- Times 2- Times with KB Peja and 2- Times With KB Prishtina. He also won Balkan League for the first time for Kosovan Team and also won BIBL MVP for the 2014–15 season. In June 2015, he signed a three-year deal with Croatian club

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. In October 2015, he left Cibona and returned to KB Prishtina. Dardan Berisha has played in Eurobasket 2011 with

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where he was one of the best players of Poland in this EuroBasket. In

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Dardan Berisha averaged with 13.2 points, 2.9 rebounds and 2.8 assists.

Professional career

Berisha was born in Peja, Kosovo. He started his career in Kosovo in 2001 with

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team. He played abroad in Spain, Poland and Croatia. In 2007-2010, he was the player of

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, which was promoted and then dropped from the Polish Premier League. On 18 May 2010 he signed a three-year contract with

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. In 2012 he returned in Kosovo, signed a contract with KB Peja. Where in this year Berisha won the

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and was chosen MVP of the league. From 2013 to 2015 he played in Kosovo with

Sigal Prishtina Klubi i Basketbollit Prishtina ( English: ''Basketball Club Prishtina''), officially known as Sigal Prishtina due to sponsorship reasons, is a Kosovar professional basketball club based in Pristina. The team currently competes in the IP Super ...

. Where in 2015 Berisha won the Super League of Kosovo and the

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. In June 2015, he was transferred in Croatia in

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. But Dardan Berisha left Cibona Zagreb to return to Sigal Prishtina. Berisha had played a few games with Cibona averaging 8.8 points per contest. On 18 February 2017, Berisha signed with the Italian team

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International career

On 2 August 2010 he made his debut in the Polish national team in the match against Georgia. He played in

in the Polish national team, where he was one of the best players that averaged 13.2 points in five games. He decided to represent

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 ...

when

finally recognized them in 2015. In 2016 he represented Kosovo on FIBA EuroBasket 2017 qualification tournament.

References

External links

Dardan Berisha
at eurobasket.com

at fiba.com {{DEFAULTSORT:Berisha, Dardan 1988 births Living people Basketball Nymburk players Juvecaserta Basket players KB Peja players KB Prishtina players KK Cibona players KK Włocławek players KKS Pro-Basket Kutno players Kosovan emigrants to Poland Kosovan men's basketball players Kosovo Albanians Polish men's basketball players Polonia Warszawa (basketball) players Shooting guards Sportspeople from Peja