{"id":4227,"date":"2017-03-18T23:57:21","date_gmt":"2017-03-18T22:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/?p=4227"},"modified":"2017-03-18T23:57:42","modified_gmt":"2017-03-18T22:57:42","slug":"berisha-to-make-international-debut-for-kosovo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/berisha-to-make-international-debut-for-kosovo\/","title":{"rendered":"Berisha to make international debut for Kosovo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/berisha.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" height=\"\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/berisha.jpg 620w, https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/berisha-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Melbourne Victory striker Besart Berisha has landed to a hero&#8217;s welcome in Pristina after being selected to make his international debut for Kosovo.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old has been called up for Kosovo&#8217;s 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifier against Iceland on Friday, March 24. The match against Iceland is just the fifth FIFA World Cup qualifier in Kosovo&#8217;s history, with Berisha to miss Victory&#8217;s match away to Brisbane Roar on March 25.  &#8220;It&#8217;s really good feeling to be here and play for my country,&#8221; Berisha told reporters in Pristina. &#8220;I would like to score as many goals as possible.&#8221; Berisha was born in Pristina when it was still a part of Yugoslavia but grew up in Germany, making his debut for Albania \u2013 like many other Kosovars before and since \u2013 in 2006. He had a special clearance approved by FIFA in January to switch to Kosovo, which only became a FIFA member in 2016. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melbourne Victory striker Besart Berisha has landed to a hero&#8217;s welcome in Pristina after being selected to make his international debut for Kosovo. The 31-year-old has been called up for Kosovo&#8217;s 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifier against Iceland on Friday, March 24. The match against Iceland is just the fifth FIFA World Cup qualifier in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4228,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[659,39],"class_list":["post-4227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-besart-berisha","tag-kosovo"],"views":1389,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4229,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4227\/revisions\/4229"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}