Sokol Maliqi (Serbo-Croat: Sokol Malići; born 24 December 1981) is a football coach and former player who coaches FC Kosova. Born in SFR Yugoslavia, he represented the Switzerland U17 national team at international level.

Playing career

Maliqi was born in Pristina, Kosovo, at the time SFR Yugoslavia. He played as a forward.

Sokol Maliqi

Coaching career

Maliqi started his coaching career in April 2012 as a player-coach at FC Schwamendingen. On 15 May 2013, it was confirmed, that he would join FC Dübendorf from the upcoming season, also as a player-coach. He left the position two years later and then had a brief spell with FC Ruggell.

Sokol Maliqi

In the summer 2016, he joined FC Gossau ZH, still as a player-coach. He left the position at the end of 2017, to become player-coach of FC Uzwil. On 20 April 2020, it was confirmed that Maliqi had been appointed head coach of his former club, FC Kosova.

Sokol Maliqi

References

External links

Football.ch profile

1981 births

Living people

Swiss men's footballers

Kosovan emigrants to Switzerland

SC Cham players

FC Luzern players

FC Wil players

FC Vaduz players

Swiss expatriate men's footballers

Swiss expatriate sportspeople in Liechtenstein

Footballers from Pristina

Swiss Super League players

FC Biel-Bienne players

Expatriate men's footballers in Liechtenstein

Cypriot First Division players

APEP FC players

Expatriate men's footballers in Cyprus

SC Young Fellows Juventus players

Swiss expatriate sportspeople in Cyprus

Switzerland men's youth international footballers

Men's association football forwards

Swiss people of Albanian descent

FC Kreuzlingen players