Drilon Kryeziu

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Drilon Kryeziu
Personnel
birthday July 1, 1999
place of birth Kranj ,  Slovenia
size 177 cm
position Defender ( right-back )
Juniors
Years station
0000–2018 NK Triglav Kranj
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2017– NK Triglav Kranj 28 (0)
2019-2020 →  NK Dekani  (loan) 7 (0)
2020– →  NK Drava Ptuj  (loan) 1 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2016 Slovenia U17 1 (0)
2016-2017 Slovenia U18 9 (0)
2017 Slovenia U-19 4 (0)
2018– Albania U-21 6 (0)
1 Only league games are given.
As of May 26, 2020

2 As of December 9, 2019

Drilon "Drila" Kryeziu (born July 1, 1999 in Kranj ) is a Slovenian football player of Kosovar Albanian descent on the position of a defender , who is mostly used as a right -back. Since February 2020 he has appeared on loan from NK Triglav Kranj for the Slovenian second division club NK Drava Ptuj .

Club career

Start of career and promotion to the highest league

Drilon Kryeziu was born on July 1st, 1999 in the town of Kranj in northern Slovenia and played for the local club NK Triglav Kranj as a child. There he went through all junior league classes and was a regular player in the club's U-15 team in the 2013/14 season with 20 league games and one goal at the side of his brother, who was not even ten months younger. While the younger brother once again acted as a regular for the U-15 in the following season 2014/15, Drila, the young defender's nickname, has already played in 16 championship games in the 1st Slovenska Kadetska Liga , the Slovenian U-17 league, in appearance, where he also scored once over the entire season. In this league he was promoted to a regular in 2015/16 and has already played 28 championship games in which he scored three goals. Furthermore, he made the leap into the U-19 team of the club during this season, for which he played in a league game over the full game. As a regular of the said U-19 team, Kryeziu then started the 2016/17 season and played 25 championship games, scoring one goal. Due to his achievements in youth, the pair of brothers was brought into the men's team for the game of the 23rd round against NK Drava Ptuj , the successor club of the club of the same name , which was dissolved in 2011 , which was at the time in the Slovenian second division . While it was the first competitive game for Drilon on the substitute bench for the men's team, the younger brother had already sat on the substitute bench two rounds earlier for the first time without being used. Egzon was used by coach Siniša Brkić from the start and replaced in the 54th minute by Urban Janjič ; Drilon spent the entire game unused on the bench and was no longer part of the squad of the professional team until the end of the season. In the final standings, he ranked first with the men of NK Triglav Kranj with a seven point lead and thus managed direct promotion to the Slovenska Nogometna League , in which the club was last represented in 2013/14 .

Isolated first division appearances from 2017/18

In the 2017/18 season , the young defensive player alternated between the U-19 and men's teams, but spent most of it in the youth team. In the first half of the season, he was still part of the junior squad, and in the spring he also played five league games for the U-19 team, before he was left with coach Siniša Brkić after sitting on the men's bench in two first division games in March the 28th championship round was regularly used in the professional squad until the end of the season. So it brought Kryeziu on 20 appearances and one goal in the 1st Slovenska Mladinska League , as well as nine for him personally goalless championship games in the Slovenian first class. In addition, there was an appearance in the Mladinski Cup , the Slovenian U-19 Junior Cup, as well as an appearance in the Slovenian Football Cup 2017/18 and in the relegation play-offs against NK Drava Ptuj, the runner-up of Druga Slovenska Nogometna League 2017/18 . The NK Triglav Kranj, who had to relegation due to the penultimate place in the Slovenska Nogometna League, was able to assert himself there with a total score of 6: 3 against the competitor from the second division.

As of the end of the previous season, Kryeziu started playing regularly with the pros from the 2018/19 season. By mid-September 2018 at the latest, he was part of the regular squad, but had to earn back his regular place, especially in the following spring, after losing it for a number of league games. From the beginning of May he was no longer part of the first division squad, as he was out for a short time due to an injury and then stayed with the Albanian U-21 national team . The 19-year-old made 19 appearances throughout the season and remained goalless. In the final ranking of the 1st SNL he and his team took eighth place in the table and thus managed to stay in the league. He was also used in the 2018/19 Slovenian Football Cup , in which Triglav Kranj was eliminated in the round of 16 against NK Olimpija Ljubljana .

After his contract with his home club, which expired on June 30, 2019, was not extended, Kryeziu slipped into the absence of a club. It was only during the 2019/20 season that Kryeziu, who was actually aiming for a move abroad, switched to the Slovenian second division club NK Dekani and played for them in seven championship games until the winter break. After three consecutive missions between the seventh and ninth championship round, he was then not in the squad for four league games before he then again completed four championship games over the full 90 minutes. In the last two games before the winter break, he was again on the substitute without being used. In February 2020, Kryezius' move to league rival NK Drava Ptuj was announced. For this he played in a single league game until the game was interrupted due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Slovenia ; in a 0-1 home defeat against NK Nafta in 1903 , coach Muamer Vugdalić put him over the full game.

National team career

Assignments in Slovenia's U-17, U-18 and U-19

Kryeziu gained his first experience in a youth national team of the Slovenian Football Association in 2016, when he made his debut on February 18 in a 1-0 win for the Slovenian U-17 juniors against their colleagues from Wales . Half a year later, Kryezius was called up to the Slovenian U-18 national squad , for which he made his debut on August 11, 2016 in a 5-1 defeat against Italy . After that it became largely quiet about the older of the Kryeziu brothers, who only found his way back to the U-18 national team in January 2017. From then on he was part of the regular formation and played five international matches in January, followed by three games in March 2017. On June 7, 2017, he played his ninth and last U-18 international match for the Slovenes in a 1-1 draw against the Czech Republic . Two months later he made his international debut for Slovenia's U-19 juniors when he was sent onto the field by former Slovenian senior international Igor Benedejčič in a 5-1 win over the United Arab Emirates in the 81st minute for Žan Rogelj . After another outing against the United Arab Emirates two days later, he played two more international matches against Kazakhstan at the end of the month . After that he was not considered in any further international match.

Change of association and missions for Albania

In the summer of 2018, Kryeziu announced his club change and announced that he would rather play for his parents' home country in the future. On September 6, 2018, he made his debut in qualifying for the U-21 European Championship 2019 for the Albanian U-21 national team against Spain , when he was in the 0-3 defeat of his team by the former Albanian senior international Alban Bushi from the start and was used as a central defender for the full duration of the game . After playing in a friendly against Italy five days later, he played the last two European Championship qualifiers in Group 2 with the Albanians in October 2018. With just seven points from ten qualifying games, Albania's U-21s clearly missed their place in June 2019 Italy and San Marino , the European Championship finals . In March 2019, he and the team started qualifying for the U-21 European Championship in 2021 and was used as a regular on the left side of the defense in the games against Turkey and Andorra . After being out for a few weeks due to an injury from the end of April 2019, he made his way back to the U-21 national team after about a month. In June 2019 he sat on the team's bench unused for the first time and tried to regain his regular position.

successes

Personal

His two brothers Egzon (* 2000) and Altin (* 2002) are also soccer players and also played in the youth team and in the professional team of NK Triglav Kranj. Furthermore, his two brothers are Slovenian junior national players. The youngest of the three brothers made the leap to Italy in the summer of 2019 , where he has since been active in the SPAL Ferrara youth team and in the 2019/20 season was the first to sit unused on the bench in a league game of the Serie A professionals.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Kryeziu lë pas dëmtimin, Reja prova më rreshtimin (Albanian), accessed on July 2, 2019
  2. ↑ ČLANSKA EKIPA ZNOVA NA DELU! (Slovenian), accessed July 2, 2019
  3. ↑ a b Primorcem uspel VELIKI MET: Okrepitve ČLAN OLIMPIJE, reprezentančni branilec in nogometaš iz ITALIJE (Slovenian), accessed on December 9, 2019
  4. ↑ Slovenija - Wales (1: 0) (Slovenian), accessed July 2, 2019
  5. ↑ Italija - Slovenija (5: 1) (Slovenian), accessed July 2, 2019
  6. ↑ Češka - Slovenija (1: 1) (Slovenian), accessed on July 2, 2019
  7. ↑ Slovenija - Združeni Arabski Emirati (5: 1) (Slovenian), accessed on July 2, 2019
  8. ↑ Slovenija - Združeni Arabski Emirati (1: 1) (Slovenian), accessed on July 2, 2019
  9. ↑ Slovenija - Kazahstan (4: 0) (Slovenian), accessed on July 2, 2019
  10. ↑ Slovenija - Kazahstan (1: 0) (Slovenian), accessed on July 2, 2019
  11. ↑ D. KRYEZIU V DRESU ALBANSKE REPREZENTANCE (Slovenian), accessed on July 2, 2019
  12. ↑ Spain - Albania (3: 0) , accessed on July 2, 2019
  13. ↑ Kryeziu i dëmtuar, Reja grumbullon 18-vjeçarin e Tiranës (Albanian), accessed July 2, 2019
  14. ↑ Egzon Kryeziu on the official website of the Slovenian PrvaLiga (Slovenian), accessed on July 2, 2019
  15. ↑ Altin Kryeziu on the official website of the Slovenian PrvaLiga (Slovenian), accessed on July 2, 2019
  16. ↑ Egzon Kryeziu on the official website of the Slovenian Football Association (Slovenian), accessed on July 2, 2019
  17. ↑ Altin Kryeziu on the official website of the Slovenian Football Association (Slovenian), accessed on July 2, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Kryeziu, Drilon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kryeziu, Drila (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Slovenian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1999
PLACE OF BIRTH Kranj , Slovenia