Melbourne Victory striker Besart Berisha is all geared up to make his first appearance for Kosovo national team in next month’s 2018 World Cup qualifier against Iceland.<\/p>\n
The 31-year-old will play for the country of his birth,\u00a0which only became a FIFA member in 2016, after switching his allegiance from Albania.<\/p>\n
“At this stage it looks like I’m going to go – my first game to play for Kosovo,” Berisha said.<\/p>\n
“So for me it’s a very exciting time because I decided to go and I hope I have a great time. I was born there and they need my help so I think it’s time to go.”<\/p>\n
Berisha, who scored 16 goals in the A-League this season, has previously represented Albania 17 times in international games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Melbourne Victory striker Besart Berisha is all geared up to make his first appearance for Kosovo national team in next month’s 2018 World Cup qualifier against Iceland. The 31-year-old will play for the country of his birth,\u00a0which only became a FIFA member in 2016, after switching his allegiance from Albania. “At this stage it looks like I’m going to go – my first game to play for Kosovo,” Berisha said. “So for me it’s a very exciting time because I decided to go and I hope I have a great time. I was born there and they need my help so I think it’s time to go.” Berisha, who scored … Continue reading “Melbourne Victory ace Besart Berisha set to debut for Kosovo”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":1449,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[380,378,379,243],"class_list":["post-1448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","tag-a-league","tag-besart-berisha","tag-kosovo","tag-melbourne-victory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}