Egzon Bejtulai

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Egzon Bejtulai
Personal information
Full name Egzon Bejtullai
Егзон Бејтулаи
Date of birth (1994-01-07) 7 January 1994 (age 28)
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
0000–2011 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[]

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[]

  1. ^ "UEFA Euro 2017 match report against Spain". UEFA.com.
  2. ^ "Match report against Azerbaijan". MacedonianFootball.com.
  3. ^ "Match report against Gibraltar". UEFA.com. Egzon Bejtulai
  4. ^ "Player Database". eu-football.info. Retrieved 2020-03-07.
  5. ^ "North Macedonia call on Uefa to investigate Marko Arnautović remarks". the Guardian. 2021-06-14. Retrieved 2021-06-15.
  6. ^ "I'm not a racist, says Arnautović". BBC Sport. Retrieved 2021-06-15.

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