Stiven Bibo (born 26 September 2003) is an Albanian professional

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who plays as a

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for Albanian club Laçi.Paulo Buxhelaj profile

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Career

Early career

Bibo was born in

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to Albanian parents but his family migrated back to

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when he was a child, settling in the country's capital,

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. He joined local youth club

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near the city centre of Tirana in 2011 at the age of 8, before joining the academy of another local club

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in 2014. He would remain at Dinamo Tirana until 2019, which is when he joined the Internacional Tirana academy, where he would remain for two years. Bibo made his senior debut on 15 May 2021 in a 7–1 loss to Iliria, coming on as a half time substitute for Ardit Reci in the penultimate round of the 2020–21 Kategoria e Dytë regular season. In 2021 he moved to

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to join the youth team of

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, where he featured 6 times for the club's youth team in the regional Preferente Catalana competition, scoring once. Whilst at Manresa, he also featured for Andorra B at senior level in the

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is the eighth tier of the

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and the second highest league in the

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Bibo, Stiven 2003 births Living people Italian people of Albanian descent Albanian men's footballers 21st-century Albanian sportsmen Men's association football midfielders Albania men's youth international footballers Albania men's under-21 international footballers Kategoria e Dytë players Kategoria Superiore players FC Dinamo City players CE Manresa players KF Laçi players Albanian expatriate men's footballers Albanian expatriates in Spain Albanian expatriate sportspeople in Spain