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Romedi Llapi (born 31 January 2002 in Detroit) is an Albanian footballer who plays mainly as a defender for Albanian club Flamurtari Vlorë and the U17  Albania national team. His natural position is Defensive midfielder. Llapi was fifteen years old when he made his debut in the Canadian youth program at an identification camp in 2017 with coach Tony Fonseca.

Club Trials
The defensive midfielder, who was ranked in the top 12 from 5,000 children in Toronto, received interest from 5 clubs but decided on a six week programme with Manchester City,. A family member said: "I was in Canada and monitored UK Football Trials for a year and was really impressed with what I saw. We came over just for the football trials and did London, Birmingham and Manchester which were all fantastic. It was great for Romedi that he did a few football trials, he was able to express himself more and get seen by different coaches and scouts." So why was Romedi scouted by so many clubs? It was the combination of an excellent attitude, power and pace, with an extremely powerful shot that really caught the eye of the scouts and coaches. He is physically strong with good core strength and he proved to be an intelligent footballer taking on board whatever the coaches asked of him.

Flamurtari FC
Llapi signed his first professional contact in Auist 2019, making him the youngest player to dign in Albanian Super Liga history.

International career
On the 20th of April 2018 Llapi made his first appearance for Albania in the UEFA U16 Development Tournament Mandal in the San Marino Stadium against Italy. He made his second appearance in the same tournament against Armenia., and his third against San Marino on April 24 2018 in Montecchio Stadium.