Ardian Gashi

Ardian Gashi

Gashi with Vålerenga in 2006
Personal information
Date of birth	(1981-06-20) 20 June 1981 (age 35)
Place of birth	Gjakova, Kosovo, SFR Yugoslavia (modern Gjakova, Kosovo)
Height	1.72 m (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in)
Playing position	Centre midfielder
Club information
Current team	Odd
Number	3
Youth career
	KIL/Hemne
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2001	Molde	4	(0)
2002–2003	Ørn Horten	39	(9)
2003	Vålerenga (loan)	14	(1)
2004–2006	Vålerenga	62	(10)
2006–2007	Brann	18	(0)
2007–2009	Fredrikstad	64	(10)
2010–2014	Helsingborg	124	(8)
2014–	Odd	29	(0)
National team‡
2002–2003	Norway U21	18	(2)
2004–2013	Norway	14	(0)
2014	Kosovo	2	(0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 21 October 2016. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 7 June 2016

Ardian Gashi (born 20 June 1981) is a Kosovar footballer who plays as a midfielder for Norwegian club Odd. Gashi has previously played for Molde, Vålerenga, Brann and Fredrikstad in the Norwegian Premier League, and Helsingborg in Allsvenskan.

Gashi is from Kosovo, but his family moved to Norway when he was eight years old. He became a Norwegian citizen, and has played for the Norwegian national team until 2014, when he started to play for Kosovo.

Gashi was born in Gjakova, SFR Yugoslavia but Gashi's family, who is of Albanian ethnicity, moved from Kosovo to Norway as refugees when he was eight years old. Gashi's family moved to Kyrksæterøra in Norway and he started to play football at the local club KIL/Hemne before he moved transferred to Molde in 1998. After a spell at Ørn Horten he went to Oslo to play for Vålerenga on loan in 2003, and later permanently.

Gashi was an important player in Vålerenga's good 2004 season, when the club finished as runners-up in the Norwegian Premier League.