Edmond "Edo" Azemi (born 19 September 1980) is a Kosovar-

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professional

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player who plays for

KB 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 Superl ...

Kosovo Basketball Superleague The Kosovo Basketball Superleague (Albanian: Superliga e Kosovës në Basketboll) and known as the ArtMotion Superliga due to sponsorship reasons is the top men's professional basketball league in Kosovo. Basketball Superleague was founded in 1991 ...

and in

Balkan International Basketball League The Balkan International Basketball League (BIBL), also known as the Balkan League, is a multinational professional basketball league that features mostly clubs from the Balkans. The league included teams from countries as Bulgaria, North Macedon ...

. 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

team where he made history winning 10x Kosovo Basketball superleague, 9x Kosovo Cups, 3x Kosovo Supercups and 2x Balkan League. Edmond Azemi is a member of the

Kosovo national basketball team The Kosovo men's national basketball team ( sq, Kombëtarja e basketbollit të meshkujve të Kosovës, sr, Кошаркашкa репрезентација Косова, translit=Košarkaška reprezentacija Kosova) represents Kosovo in internat ...

from 2011. He was part of the Albanian national basketball team from 2004 to 2010. Azemi also holds a Croatian passport.

Personal

He was born in

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father and Croatian mother. He spent his teen years in

Pristina Pristina, ; sr, / (, ) is the capital and largest city of Kosovo. The city's municipal boundaries in Pristina District form the largest urban center in Kosovo. After Tirana, Pristina has the second largest population of ethnic Albanians and ...

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 ...

and also started the career in

where he made history. Now Edmond Azemi lives in

, he is married to Elma Ibro and they have two children.

Professional career

2005-2010 season

In 2005-06 season, Edmond Azemi played in KB Valbona Tropoje in

Albanian Basketball League The Albanian Basketball League is the men's professional basketball league in Albania. It was founded in 1946 shortly after the formation of the Albanian Basketball Association and is now divided into two divisions, the Superliga and First Divi ...

and also in Eurocup Challenge where he was one of the best players of his team. He averaged with 9.0 points, 2.0 rebounds and 1.0 steals per game. Also in 2005-06 season he played with KB Prishtina where he averaged with 10.3 points and 2.6 assists per game. Then in 2006-07 he played for KR Basket in the Icelandic Úrvalsdeild and helped them win the national championship. For the season he averaged 9.1 points, 4.2 rebounds, 1.6 assists and 2.4 steals in 12 games played. From Iceland he returned in Kosovo at

to play just two seasons and to go to Macedonian basketball superleague at KK

Lirija KK Lirija ( mk, КК Лирија) is a defunct basketball club based in Skopje, North Macedonia. They played in the Macedonian First League until the season 2013/2014. History The club was founded on 1977. Domestic Achievements * Macedonian Cup ...

team where he played 13 games with average - 12.2 points, 4.3 rebounds and 1.9 assists per game.

2010-2015 seasons

From KK Lirija, Azemi returned again in KB

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 Superl ...

in 2010-11 where he won

MVP of 2010/11 season, and also the Kosovo Cup. In 2010/11 he averaged with very impressive stats: 22.4 points, 5.2 rebounds and 5.1 assists per game. In 2013/14 season Edmond Azemi with his team Sigal Prishtina played in

for the first time in history. In the first season in BIBL Sigal Prishtina went to the final four of this league where they were organizers of this event. During this season of BIBL, Azemi averaged with 4.1 points and 1.8 rebounds in 16 games played. The 2014-15 season was one of the best in history not just for Azemi but also for KB

because in this season they won Balkan League for the first time and also Kosovo Superleague Trophy. In this winning season, Azemi averaged with 7.8 points, 4.2 rebounds and 2.1 assists per game in 17 games played.

Honors

* 13x

champion (02,03,06,07,08,09,10,11,14,15,16,17,19) * 13x

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winner (03,05,06,07,08,09,10,13,14,16,17,18,19) * 4x Kosovo Supercups winner (2005,2006,2014, 2018) * Icelandic League champion (2007) *

Balkan League The League of the Balkans was a quadruple alliance formed by a series of bilateral treaties concluded in 1912 between the Eastern Orthodox kingdoms of Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia and Montenegro, and directed against the Ottoman Empire, which at the ...

champion (2015,2016)

Personal

Professional career

2005-2010 season

2010-2015 seasons

Honors

References

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