Gavazaj with Albania U21
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Personal information | |||
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Full name | Enis Gavazaj | ||
Date of birth | 21 March 1995 | ||
Place of birth | Prizren, FR Yugoslavia (now Kosovo) | ||
Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||
Playing position | Midfielder | ||
Club information | |||
Current team
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Skënderbeu | ||
Number | 7 | ||
Youth career | |||
2003–2008 | Getoari | ||
2008–2011 | Liria | ||
2011–2013 | Prishtina | ||
2013 | Gent | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2013–2016 | Gent | 7 | (0) |
2015–2016 | → Roeselare (loan) | 5 | (0) |
2016– | Skënderbeu | 11 | (0) |
National team‡ | |||
2010–2012 | Kosovo U17 | ? | (?) |
2012–2014 | Albania U19 | 6 | (1) |
2013–2016 | Albania U21 | 11 | (1) |
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 19:14, 8 February 2017 (UTC). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 24 March 2016 |
Enis Gavazaj (born 21 March 1995) is an Albanian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Skënderbeu in the Albanian Superliga.
He started his youth career at the age of 8 at Liria Prizren school academies, from where he moved to the youth teams of the club in 2008 where he stayed for 3 years until 2011, before moving to the most successful football club in Kosovo, FC Prishtina, at the age of 16. Standing for two years at FC Prishtina, on 8 August 2013 he signed for Belgium side K.A.A. Gent in the Belgian Pro League.
In December 2013 Gavazaj gained entry with the first team of Gent, as he called up for the match against Anderlecht on 15 December 2013, finished in the loss 1–2, in where Gavazaj was an unused substitute for the entire match. He made it his first debut for Gent at age 18 against Genk on 26 January 2014, coming on as a substitute in the stoppage time 90'+2 in place of Yaya Soumahoro, where the match finished in the away victory 1–2. The second match for Gent came on 8 February 2014 against Oostende, where he came in as a substitute in the 81st minute in the place of Brecht Dejaegere. After some games as an unused substitute, Gavazaj played on 1 March 2014 against Sporting Charleroi, where he included in the starting line up and got substituted off in the 57th minute for Renato Neto. Gavazaj played on 8 March 2014 in a match against Cercle Brugge, coming on as a substitute in the 73rd minute of the match in place of Nana Akwasi Asare and in the 81st minute Gavazaj gave an assist for the 3rd goal of the match scored by Mahamadou Habibou, were the match finished as an away victory 1–4. After that game, he included in best eleven of the week in Belgian Pro League. Gavazaj played on 3 May 2014 against Lierse, coming on as a substitute in the 61st minute in place of Danijel Milićević and 13 minutes after in the 74th' he assisted the latest match's goal scored by Hervé Kage, as the match finished in the victory 4–0, with 3 other goals scored by Habib Habibou as a Hat-trick.