{"id":4730,"date":"2026-05-25T13:43:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T13:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/illyrianinfo.com\/?p=4730"},"modified":"2026-05-25T13:43:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T13:43:15","slug":"returns-and-new-names-foda-publishes-kosovos-list-for-friendly-matches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/illyrianinfo.com\/?p=4730","title":{"rendered":"Returns and new names, Foda publishes Kosovo&#8217;s list for friendly matches"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The Kosovo national team will play two friendly matches over the next few days.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> The Dardanians will play on May 31 against the Czech Republic on the road, while a week later they host Andorra at &#8216;Fadil Vokrri&#8217;.<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p> Kosovo coach Franco Foda has published the list of 25 players for these matches, which includes returning and new names.<\/p>\n<p> Defenders Ron Ra\u00e7i and Andi Hoti are back, while the list also includes Bersant Celina, who returned after a long time, as well as the duo Muharrem Jashari and Leon Avdullahu, who missed the last training camp due to injury.<\/p>\n<p> The new names on Franco Foda&#8217;s list are Valmir Matoshi, Dardan Shabanhaxhaj and Rilind Nivokazi.<\/p>\n<p> Meanwhile, senators such as Amir Rrahmani, Florent Hadergjonaj, Milot Rashica, Valon Berisha and Vedat Muriqi have not been invited to these friendlies at all.<strong\/> <em><strong>\/Telegraph\/<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image\"> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kosovo national team will play two friendly matches over the next few days. The Dardanians will play on May 31 against the Czech Republic on the road, while a week later they host Andorra at &#8216;Fadil Vokrri&#8217;. Kosovo coach Franco Foda has published the list of 25 players for these matches, which includes returning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4731,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/illyrianinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/illyrianinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/illyrianinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illyrianinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illyrianinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/illyrianinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illyrianinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/illyrianinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illyrianinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illyrianinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4730"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illyrianinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftmauthors&post=4730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}