Egzon Bejtulai
Personal information | |||
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Full name |
Egzon Bejtullai Егзон Бејтулаи | ||
Date of birth | 7 January 1994 | ||
Place of birth | Tetovo, Macedonia | ||
Height | 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||
Position(s) | Right-back or Centre-back | ||
Club information | |||
Current team | Shkendija | ||
Number | 4 | ||
Youth career | |||
–2011 | Teteks | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2011–2013 | Teteks | 52 | (9) |
2013–2019 | Shkendija | 165 | (7) |
2020 | Helsingborgs | 0 | (0) |
2020– | Shkendija | 21 | (1) |
National team‡ | |||
2012–2014 | Macedonia U19 | 7 | (0) |
2014–2017 | Macedonia U21 | 8 | (0) |
2018– | Albania | 19 | (-1 (own goal)) |
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 1 April 2021 ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 1 April 2021 |
Egzon Bejtulai (Macedonian: Егзон Бејтулаи; born 7 January 1994) is an Albanian professional footballer who plays for KF Shkëndija as a defender.
Club career[]
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International career[]
Bejtulai is of Albanian Macedonian descent, which made him eligible to play for either Albania or North Macedonia (Macedonia) national team at international level. Bejtulai was a regular in the Macedonia U21 team and performed at the 2017 UEFA European Under-21 Championship in Poland, where he served as first right back choice.[1]
In May 2016 and March 2017 he also received call-ups for Macedonia in friendlies against Azerbaijan,[2] Iran and Belarus, but he did not make his debut until 6 September 2018 during the first round of the 2018–19 UEFA Nations League D competition, when he entered the game against Gibraltar in the 85th minute.[3][4]
During North Macedonia's opening fixture of the tournament against Austria, immediatedly after striker Marko Arnautović (who is half-Serbian) scored, Arnautović angrily shouted towards Bejtulai and teammate Ezgjan Alioski –both of Albanian descent–what were believed to be anti-Albanian slurs. Football Federation of Macedonia released a statement calling for action by UEFA.[5][6]
References[]
- ^ "UEFA Euro 2017 match report against Spain". UEFA.com.
- ^ "Match report against Azerbaijan". MacedonianFootball.com.
- ^ "Match report against Gibraltar". UEFA.com.
Egzon Bejtulai
- ^ "Player Database". eu-football.info. Retrieved 2020-03-07.
- ^ "North Macedonia call on Uefa to investigate Marko Arnautović remarks". the Guardian. 2021-06-14. Retrieved 2021-06-15.
- ^ "I'm not a racist, says Arnautović". BBC Sport. Retrieved 2021-06-15.
External links[]
- Egzon Bejtulai at National-Football-Teams.com
- Egzon Bejtulai – UEFA competition record (archive)
- Egzon Bejtulai at Soccerway
- Egzon Bejtulai at WorldFootball.net
- 1994 births
- Living people
- People from Tetovo
- Albanian footballers from North Macedonia
- Association football defenders
- Macedonian footballers
- North Macedonia international footballers
- North Macedonia youth international footballers
- FK Teteks players
- KF Shkëndija players
- Helsingborgs IF players
- Macedonian First Football League players
- UEFA Euro 2020 players
- Macedonian expatriate footballers
- Expatriate footballers in Sweden
- Macedonian expatriate sportspeople in Sweden