The international coalition fighting the "Islamic State of Iraq and Syria" (ISIS) in Syria has killed a plotter of the thwarted attack at a 2016 soccer match in Albania, AFP reported Thursday (August 3rd).

Lavdrim Muhaxheri was killed in a June 7th airstrike near Mayadin, which is close to Deir Ezzor in eastern Syria, coalition spokesman Col. Ryan Dillon said.

"He was an ethnic Albanian from Kosovo and a self-proclaimed leader of ISIS foreign fighters from Kosovo," he said.

Albanian authorities have charged four people over allegedly plotting to attack the World Cup qualifier in Albania last November.

The game had been due to take place in the northern town of Shkodra but was eventually held in Elbasan, about 45 kilometres from the Albanian capital Tirana, under a massive security presence.

Dillon said Muhaxheri was "the most prominent and radical ethnic Albanian fighter" in Syria who was responsible for inciting extremist ideology in Europe and encouraging foreign fighters to travel to ISIS-controlled territory.

"He was also responsible for planning numerous terrorist attacks," including the plot to bomb the soccer match in Albania, Dillon said.

Dillon said eight other "colleagues" of Muhaxheri also had been killed.