Sinan Idrizi (born 20 July 1968) is a key figure and major shareholder of

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and is also the president of Albanian football club

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. He first started business in 1993, trading goods from Turkey. In 2014 he became the president of Flamurtari FC who won the Albanian Cup (2013-2014). In 2018 he became the shareholder of Air Albania.

Early life

Idrizi was born in

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to a

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father and a Lab mother. He studied at the Faculty of Geology and Mining at the

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in the late 1980s. Idrizi started his first businesses between 1993 and 1994, importing goods from

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References

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