Ezgjan Alioski ( macedonian : Езѓан Алиоски ; born 12 February 1992 ) is a macedonian master football player who plays as a winger or wing-back for Saudi Arabian club Al-Ahli and the North Macedonia home team. He is normally known as ‘Gjanni ‘. [ 3 ] A versatile left-footed actor, he predominantly plays on the leftover fender, and can besides play as striker, attacking midfielder, right wing, left wing-back or as a left-back.
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Club career [edit ]
early career [edit ]
Having joined their youth academy in 2003, [ 4 ] Alioski began his career as a left-back in the second gear team of Young Boys from 2010 to 2013, where he scored four goals in 57 matches. In January 2013, he went to Schaffhausen on loan, before joining on a permanent wave transfer in October 2013, [ 4 ] scoring four goals in 77 matches .
Lugano [edit ]
He joined Lugano on lend in January 2016, [ 5 ] and made his debut on 13 February in a 2–1 loss against Thun. Despite signing him as a forget back, then Lugano director Zdeněk Zeman converted Alioski into an attacking right winger and striker towards the end of the 2015–16 season. [ 6 ] He scored his first gear goal for the club on 11 May 2016 in a 4–0 gain to Zürich. [ 7 ] In June 2016, his move was made permanent. New director Andrea Manzo continued to play Alioski in the assaultive roles once the season started. He scored his first goal of the campaign in his second game on 30 July 2016, in a 2–1 succeed over Young Boys. He scored seven goals in his foremost ten-spot games at the club. On 19 April 2017, Alioski scored a hat-trick for Lugano in a 4–2 victory against Sion. He continued to impress during his beginning temper and helped guide Lugano to a third-place finish in the swiss Super League. He scored 16 goals in 34 games for Lugano and was the third base top goalscorer in the league in the 2016–17 season, behind Seydou Doumbia ( 20 ) and Guillaume Hoarau ( 18 ). [ 8 ] He was besides the third highest in the division in terms of his assists, after making 14 in his 34 games, behind Yoric Ravet ( 17 ) and Matteo Tosetti ( 15 ). [ 9 ]
Leeds United [edit ]
Alioski has been a function of Leeds United ‘s fall to the Premier League in 2019–20 after a sixteen-year wait, notwithstanding three seasons played in the second tier of English football. He scored significant goals in the 2019–20 season .
2017–18 season [edit ]
Alioski joined English club Leeds United on 13 July 2017. [ 10 ] On 6 August 2017, he made his debut in a 3–2 victory against Bolton Wanderers and created the assist for teammate Chris Wood ‘s goal. [ 11 ] After gaining another help, he received the homo of the match prize over Sunderland in a 2–0 acquire on 19 August. [ 12 ] On 26 August, Alioski received the man of the match award and scored his first gear goal for Leeds in a 2–0 victory against Nottingham Forest. [ 13 ] On 15 September, Alioski won the Championship Goal of the Month Award for August for his goal against Nottingham Forest. [ 14 ] In November 2017, Alioski scored in all of Leeds United ‘s four games, and was awarded with the club ‘s prize for Player of the Month. [ 15 ] On 16 April 2018, Alioski was nominated as one of four players for Leeds United ‘s Player of The Year award. [ 16 ] On 21 April, Alioski scored the achiever with his seventh finish of the season in a 2–1 victory for Leeds in the Yorkshire bowler hat against Barnsley. [ 17 ] He ended the season with seven goals and five assists. [ 18 ] On 5 May, Alioski won the Goal of the Season award for his strike over Nottingham Forest at Leeds ‘ annual award ceremony. [ 19 ]
2018–19 season [edit ]
He scored his first goal of the 2018–19 season with a finish on 11 August in a 4–1 victory of Derby County. [ 20 ] [ 21 ] Alioski started the season for Leeds as a winger playing on the right field or leave side, but after an injury to regular left-back Barry Douglas in 2019, Alioski was praised for his shape play at left-back, with his human body keeping a returning Douglas out of the side. [ 22 ] He continued to thrive in this wing-back put throughout 2019, producing marauding runs up the left flank and scoring against Stoke City, Bolton Wanderers and West Bromwich Albion to bring his Championship total for 2018–19 to seven, until, on 22 April, in Leeds ‘ 2–0 frustration at Brentford, Alioski was substituted after twelve minutes with a tear meniscus and missed the remainder of the season, including play-offs. [ 23 ] During the 2018–19 temper, Alioski played 47 games in all competitions, netting seven goals, after Leeds finished the regular season in third base locate after dropping out of the automatic forwarding places with three games left following a loss to Wigan Athletic on 19 April. [ 24 ] Leeds United qualified for the play-offs versus sixth-placed Derby County, with Alioski ‘s season already ended by injury. Leeds won the first gear leg of the play-offs in a 1–0 win at Pride Park to bring into a 1–0 aggregate jumper cable into the base branch at Elland Road. however, they lost the second stage 2–4, with Gaetano Berardi being sent off. [ 25 ] This reverse resulted in Leeds losing 4–3 on sum. [ 25 ]
2019–20 season [edit ]
On 24 August, Alioski scored his first gear finish of the 2019–20 season in a 3–0 gain over Stoke City. [ 26 ] After the English professional football season was paused in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the season was resumed during June, where Alioski earned forwarding with Leeds to the Premier League and besides become the EFL Championship winners for the 2019–20 season in July following a successful resumption of the temper. [ 27 ] Alioski played an important part in the promotion, scoring significant goals and changing games .
2020–21 season [edit ]
Alioski played his first Premier League crippled on 19 September 2020, when he came on as a seventieth minute substitute for Patrick Bamford in the team ‘s 4–3 home win over Fulham. [ 28 ] Three days earlier, Alioski had been in the starting line-up, scoring the lone goal — in add time — in Leeds ‘s 1–1 League Cup second round affiliation with Hull City ( Hull went on to win 9–8 on penalties with Alioski missing his spot kick ). [ 29 ] He made his foremost Premier League originate on 5 October 2020 against Manchester City, [ 30 ] coming into the first football team in position of Jack Harrison, who was ineligible to play against his rear club. On 16 December 2020, He scored his first Premier League goal in the 5–2 home win against Newcastle United. [ 31 ] Alioski scored his final examination goal of 2020 in a 5–0 away win over West Bromwich Albion. [ 32 ] [ 33 ] Alioski was offered a new condense at the end of the temper, but was ineffective to reach an agreement with the club, therefore departing the club after four years. [ 34 ]
On 29 July 2021, Alioski signed for Saudi Arabian clubhouse Al-Ahli. [ 35 ]
International career [edit ]
eligible to represent Macedonia and Albania due to his albanian heritage, Alioski decided to represent the country of his birth, Macedonia. [ 36 ] After representing Macedonia at diverse youth levels, he made his debut for the elder side in 2013. He scored his first international finish against Albania on 5 September 2016 in a 2018 FIFA World Cup reservation peer. He chiefly played for his national side in a leave wing-back situation, before being converted to a more attack midfield situation. On 6 September 2018, Alioski scored in a 2–0 win over Gibraltar in the UEFA Nations League. [ 37 ] He scored in his country ‘s next bet on on 9 September in a 2–0 UEFA Nations League win against Armenia. [ 38 ] In May 2021, Alioski was selected in the concluding 26-man police squad to represent North Macedonia at the postpone UEFA Euro 2020, marking the country ‘s first base appearance at a major tournament. [ 39 ] During North Macedonia ‘s opening fastness of the tournament against Austria, immediatedly after striker Marko Arnautović ( who is half- Serbian ) scored, Arnautović angrily shouted towards Alioski and teammate Egzon Bejtulai –both of Albanian descent–what were believed to be anti-Albanian slurs. Football Federation of Macedonia released a instruction calling for action by UEFA. [ 40 ] [ 41 ]
personal life [edit ]
Alioski is Muslim. [ 42 ] He can speak Albanian, English, French, German, Italian, Macedonian and Spanish. [ 43 ] He has citizenships of North Macedonia and Switzerland. [ 44 ]
career statistics [edit ]
club [edit ]
- As of match played 23 May 2021[2]
International [edit ]
- As of match played 14 November 2021
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Macedonia[a] | |||
| 2013 | 2 | 0 | |
| 2014 | 4 | 0 | |
| 2015 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2016 | 4 | 1 | |
| 2017 | 8 | 0 | |
| 2018 | 7 | 3 | |
| 2019 | 8 | 1 | |
| 2020 | 6 | 2 | |
| 2021 | 15 | 5 | |
| Total | 54 | 12 | |
- ^North Macedonia was known as Macedonia until 2019
- As of match played 14 November 2021. North Macedonia score listed first, score column indicates score after each Alioski goal.
Honours [edit ]
Leeds United
Individual
- EFL Championship Goal of the Month: August 2017[ citation needed]
- Leeds United Goal of the Season: 2017–18[19]