Qendresa Krasniqi (born 28 June 1994) is a Kosovan-born Albanian

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who plays as a

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for

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club

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, the Albania women's national team and later for the Kosovo women's national team.

Club career

Krasniqi has played for

KFF Hajvalia KFF Hajvalia ( sq, Klubi Futbollistik për Femra Hajvalia), commonly known as Hajvalia was a women's soccer, women's football club based in village Hajvalia of Pristina, Kosovo that folded in summer 2018. It is the women's section of KF Hajvalia. ...

and Swiss club Yverdon.

International career

Born in Kosovo, Krasniqi is of Albanian descent. She made her debut for Albania in an official match on 2 June 2016, shortly before Kosovo was accepted as a member of both

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and

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, so she could play for Kosovo despite her previous official appearance for Albania. In March 2017, she played for

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 ...

at the

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, a friendly competition. A month later, she played three new official matches for Albania, so she became definitely

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to Albania.

International goals

''Scores and results list Kosovo's goal tally first'' ''Scores and results list Albania's goal tally first''

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* * 1994 births Living people Albanian women's footballers Women's association football midfielders KFF Vllaznia Shkodër players Swiss Women's Super League players Albania women's international footballers Albanian expatriate women's footballers Albanian expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland Expatriate women's footballers in Switzerland Footballers from Pristina Kosovan women's footballers KFF Hajvalia players Kosovo women's international footballers Dual internationalists (women's football) Kosovan expatriate women's footballers Kosovan expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland Kosovan people of Albanian descent Sportspeople of Albanian descent {{Kosovo-women-footy-bio-stub

Club career

International career

International goals

See also

References

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