| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 10 February 1988 | ||
| Place of birth | Pirok, Tetovo, now Macedonia, SFR Yugoslavia | ||
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||
| Playing position | Forward | ||
| Club information | |||
| Current club | KS Kastrioti Kruje | ||
| Number | 10 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 2000-2006 | NK Dinamo Zagreb | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| 2006-2007 | Bonifika Izola | ||
| 2007-2008 | NK Domžale | 9 | (1) |
| 2008-2009 | Dinamo Tirana | 20 | (2) |
| 2009- | KS Kastrioti Kruje | 28 | (0) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 2007-2008 | Croatia U19 | ? | (?) |
| 2008-2009 | Croatia U21 | 1 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 19 May 2010. † Appearances (Goals). |
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Pëllumb Jusufi (born 10 February 1988 in Tetovo) is a Croatian-Macedonian football player. The striker currently plays for KS Kastrioti Kruje in the Albanian Superliga. He is of Albanian descent.
Jusufi played for the then Slovenian champions, NK Domzale. During his time in Slovenia he did not get regular first team football, this then opted him to search for a new team and that team was Dinamo Tirana. Jusufi made 2 appearances in the Champions League for NK Domzale, one of them against Dinamo Tirana's local rivals KF Tirana[1]
Jusufi started playing football at the age of 7 and was mentored by his father, Isak Jusufi, who was also a professional footballer. Jusufi and his family moved from Tetovo in Macedonia to Zagreb in Croatia when he was 12 years old where he carried on playing football, this led him to be scouted by Croatian club NK Dinamo Zagreb. He started playing for the club in 2000 and made his way up the ranks of the club and by doing so was also spotted by the Croatia youth team and he decided to represent Croatia at youth level ahead of the country of his birth Macedonia and Albania. Whilst representing Croatia at a European football tournament in 2006 he was spotted by many big clubs like Borussia Dortmund and many Italian and French sides, but the biggest interest in the young forward came from VfB Stuttgart and Jusufi was expected to sign for them, however this did not happen.[2] Jusufi has expressed his desire to one day play for Barcelona F.C. and is a huge fan of the Catalonian club. His favourite player is Ronaldinho. He has also said that whilst he was younger he wanted to play for Albania but since then has gone down a different path.[3]