Julian Bibleka

Julian Bibleka (born 4 May 1996), is a Kosovar^[1] professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for German club 1. FC Kaan-Marienborn. He made one appearance for the Kosovo national team in 2014.

Julian Bibleka

Personal information
Date of birth	(1996-05-04) 4 May 1996 (age 28)
Place of birth	Barilevë, FR Yugoslavia
Height	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Position(s)	Goalkeeper
Team information
Current team	1. FC Kaan-Marienborn
Number	1
Youth career
	SSV Frohnhausen
	JSG Mittenaar/Siegbach/Burg
	VfB Gießen
0000–2010	TSG Wieseck
2010–2015	Eintracht Frankfurt
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2015	05 Oberrad	19	(0)
2016–2019	TSV Steinbach	8	(0)
2019	Rot-Weiß Koblenz	4	(0)
2020–	1. FC Kaan-Marienborn	30	(0)
International career‡
2012	Albania U17	1	(0)
2014	Kosovo	1	(0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 1 July 2022 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 25 May 2014

Club career

Early career

Bibleka started his youth career at SSV Frohnhausen, a local academy in Germany. Then he played for various fellow German club academies such as JSG Mittenaar/Siegbach/Burg, VfB Gießen, TSG Wieseck, before he joined the Eintracht Frankfurt academies in 2010.^[2] With Eintracht Frankfurt Bibleka won the Hessen cup by defeating FSV Frankfurt U-19 3–1 in a match in which Bibleka was considered decisive with several saves.^[3]

International career

Being of Albanian descent, in April 2013 Bibleka participated in a gathering of young Albanians footballers born in 1997–1998 and 1995–1996 even, organised by the FSHF (Albanian Football Association) in Switzerland with the participations of the Albania national under-17 football team and Albania national under-19 football team respective coaches at the time, Džemal Mustedanagić and Foto Strakosha.^[4] Bibleka became one of 12 young talents suggested to FSHF by Jetmir Salihu (a simple Albanian football fan part of Tifozat Kuq e Zi, which later became a representative of FSHF for Kosovo) to be selected to the Albania national youth football teams at least one time.^[5]

Kosovo

Bibleka was called up to Kosovo national team by coach Albert Bunjaki for the two FIFAs sanctioned matches against Turkey and Senegal in May 2014.^[6] He made it his debut for Kosovo on 25 May 2014 against Senegal, coming on as a substitute in the 79th minute in place of Kushtrim Mushica in a 3–1 loss.^[7]

Career statistics

Club

As of 1 July 2015^[8]

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition

Club	Season	League			National cup		Europe		Total
		Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
SpVgg 05 Oberrad	2015–16	Hessenliga	0	0	0	0	–		0	0
Career total			0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

International

As of 25 May 2014^[9]

Appearances and goals by national team and year

National team	Year	Apps	Goals
Kosovo	2014	1	0
Total		1	0