Mërgim Vojvoda

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Mërgim Vojvoda
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Mërgim Vojvoda (2018)
Personnel
birthday February 1, 1995
place of birth Hof (Saale) ,  Germany
size 187 cm
position Defense
Juniors
Years station
2008-2013 Standard Liege
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2013-2016 Standard Liège II
2014-2015 →  VV St. Truiden  (loan) 4 (0)
2015-2016 →  FC Carl Zeiss Jena  (loan) 24 (0)
2016-2019 Royal Excel Mouscron 98 (2)
2019-2020 Standard Liege 28 (1)
2020– Torino FC 0 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2014-2016 Albania U21 9 (0)
2017– Kosovo 25 (1)
1 Only league games are given.
As of August 23, 2020

2 As of January 12, 2020

Mërgim Vojvoda (born February 1, 1995 in Hof , Germany ) is a Kosovar - Belgian football player .

The defender currently plays for the Italian first division club FC Turin . He is a member of the current squad of the Kosovar national soccer team .

Career

Vojvoda was born in Hof. When he was two years old, his parents had to return with him to Kosovo, where civil war was raging at the time. After staying there for a year, Belgium allowed them to be reunited because there were other relatives living there. As a teenager he played for Standard Liège. As part of his first professional contract, he was used in the reserve team.

In the 2014/15 season he was on the then in the second division gambling VV St. Truiden borrowed. In the following season there is a one-year loan to FC Carl Zeiss Jena , which played in the Regionalliga Nordost , the fourth-highest German division. This loan was brokered by Roland Duchatelet, at the time both the main investor in Standard Liège and in FC Carl Zeiss Jena.

At the beginning of the 2016/17 season he moved back to Belgium to Royal Excel Mouscron . At the end of May 2019, his move to Standard Liège for the 2019/20 season was announced after the two clubs had reached an agreement. In the 2019/20 season, he played 25 of 29 possible games for Standard until it was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic .

At the end of August 2020, he moved to Italy for Turin FC , where he signed a contract with a term of four years.

National team

Vojvoda took part in qualifying matches for the U21 European Championship 2017 for the Albanian U21 national team. After Kosovo was officially admitted to FIFA and UEFA in May 2017, he will no longer play a game for Albania. Vojvoda had his first international match for Kosovo on June 11, 2017. Due to a lack of athletic qualifications, there have been no appearances at European and World Championships.

Web links

References & comments

  1. ↑ a b Vojvoda mentions Hof as the place of birth in a report by:
    Frank Dekeyser: Van de burgeroorlog in Kosovo naar Sclessin: het opvallende parcours van Standard-aanwinst Vojvoda. In: Het latest nieuws. July 5, 2019, accessed July 10, 2020 (Dutch). ;
    In the press releases of his clubs, Skënderaj , BR Yugoslavia is mentioned several times as the place of birth
  2. ↑ Mergim Vojvoda changes to FC Carl Zeiss Jena. FC Carl Zeiss Jena, June 22, 2015, accessed on June 7, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Joe Hall: Charlton owner Roland Duchatelet sells standard lounger. City AM Ltd., October 29, 2015, accessed June 7, 2019 .
  4. ^ Mergim Vojvoda revient chez les Rouches. Standard Liège, May 27, 2019, accessed June 7, 2019 (French).
  5. ^ Vojvoda al Toro. Turin FC, August 27, 2020, accessed August 28, 2020 (Italian).
personal data
SURNAME Vojvoda, Mërgim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Kosovar-Belgian football player
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1995
PLACE OF BIRTH Hof (Saale) , Germany