Fatos Beciraj

Fatos Beciraj (Serbian Cyrillic: Фатос Бећирај, Albanian: Fatos Besim Beqiraj; born 5 May 1988) is a Montenegrin professional footballer who plays as a striker for Israeli Premier League club Bnei Yehuda and the Montenegro national team.

Club Career

Early career and Buducnost

Beciraj began his career in his hometown of Pec with the local club Shqiponja at 17 years of age, before joining their city rivals Besa Peje in July 2007. After spending the first half of the 2007–08 season with Besa Peje, his good performances in the Kosovar Superliga attracted attention from several clubs in the region, and in January 2008, Beciraj moved to the Montenegrin First League side Buducnost Podgorica.

He immediately established himself as a first team regular at Buducnost, scoring 9 goals in 15 appearances in the second half of the 2007–08 season, helping the club win the Montenegrin championship title and finish runners-up in the 2007–08 Montenegrin Cup. In the following two seasons, Beciraj scored 28 league goals in 62 matches for the club, becoming league top scorer in the 2008–09 season with 18 goals scored.

Dinamo Zagreb

On 30 August 2010, it was announced that Beciraj signed for Croatian club Dinamo Zagreb. He played well in his debut season with Dinamo and became regularly called up to the Montenegro national team. He played in 22 league matches and scored 8 goals, most notably a beautiful goal against Rijeka and a fine header against Hajduk Split.

Beciraj struggled to find his goalscoring form at the beginning of the 2011–12 season, finally scoring after eight matches without a goal, netting the fifth goal in a 5–0 win against Karlovac. He then scored the last goal in a 4–1 win against Malmo in the 2011–12 UEFA Champions League Play-off. Beciraj then continued his goalscoring form in domestic competition, scoring against Varazdin, Istra 1961, Zadar, Sibenik and Split.

On 22 November 2011, Beciraj scored Dinamo's first

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