Qazim Laçi

Qazim Laçi (born 19 January 1996) is an Albanian professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for Czech First League club Sparta Prague and the Albania national team.

Raised in Greece from a young age, Laçi began his career with Olympiacos, spending three years there that included multiple loan spells.

[4] For the first time Laçi was included in the Olympiacos first team squad who participated in the 2014–15 Greek Cup semi-final game against Apollon Smyrni on 8 April 2015 by coach Vítor Pereira.

[5] Also after 3 weeks Laçi was included in the team for the second-leg against Apollon Smyrni but once again he didn't manage to make his debut and Olympiacos got a 1–1 draw to qualify for the Final with aggregate 4–1.

[7] He made his professional debut on 3 February 2016 under coach Marco Silva in the 2015–16 Greek Cup 1/4 finals against Asteras Tripoli coming on as a substitute in the 90th minute in place of Andreas Bouchalakis.

[9][10] On 4 January 2017, however, after failing to appear in any official games, APOEL announced that Laçi's loan was terminated, and the player would return to Olympiacos.

Laçi was called up for the first time in international level at Albania national under-17 football team by coach Džemal Mustedanagić to participate in the 2013 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualifying round in October 2012.

[4] He advanced higherly in international level as he was called up in the Albania U19 squad by coach Foto Strakosha for the friendly match against Italy U19 on 14 May 2014.

[20] Laçi was invited by new Albania U19s coach Altin Lala to participate in the 2015 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualifying round for the matches against Denmark, Portugal and Wales, in the match-dates 12–17 November 2014.

[4][22] Laçi continued higherly as he was called up also in the Albania national under-21 football team by coach Skënder Gega for the start of the 2017 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification against Liechtenstein U21 on 28 March 2015.