Shpëtim Babaj (Serbo-Croat: Špetim Babaj) (born on 9 December 1981 in Pristina) is a Kosovo Albanian football midfielder playing for SK Tirana. He also holds Croatian citizenship. Given a list of categories: company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, what category does the paragraph belong to?
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Athlete