Naser Aliji
Naser Ismail Aliji, born 27 December 1993 in Kumanovo, Macedonia, is an Albanian professional footballer who plays as a left-back for Dinamo City and the Albania national team. He is of Albanian ethnicity and moved to Baden, Switzerland with his mother when he was four. He began playing football with FC Baden, then FC Aarau, before joining FC Basel’s youth system in 2008.
Aliji made his Basel first-team debut in 2013 and helped the club win the Swiss Super League in 2013–14 and 2014–15 (and again in 2015–16 after a loan spell). He spent a season on loan at Vaduz in 2015. In 2016 he moved to 1. FC Kaiserslautern in Germany, where he stayed until 2017. His later clubs included Virtus Entella (Italy, 2018), Dinamo București (Romania, 2018–2019), Budapest Honvéd (Hungary, 2019–2022), Voluntari (Romania, 2022–2024), and Dinamo City (Albania) from 2024.
Internationally, Aliji represented Switzerland at youth level but chose Albania in 2015. He made his Albania senior debut in 2015 against France and was part of Albania’s Euro 2016 squad, though he did not play in the tournament.
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