Emir Bajrami
| Emir Bajrami | ||
 Bajrami in the service of FC Twente (2010)
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| Personnel | ||
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| birthday | March 7, 1988 | |
| place of birth | Pristina , SFR Yugoslavia | |
| size | 178 cm | |
| position | Midfielder / striker | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| Köpings FF | ||
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 2005 | Köpings FF | |
| 2006-2010 | IF Elfsborg | 83 (15) |
| 2010-2013 | FC Twente Enschede | 43 (5) |
| 2012-2013 | → AS Monaco (loan) | 10 (1) |
| 2013-2015 | Panathinaikos Athens | 12 (0) |
| 2015– | IF Elfsborg | 9 (1) |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) 2 |
| 2006 | Sweden U18 | 7 (1) |
| 2007 | Sweden U-19 | 5 (0) |
| 2007-2010 | Sweden U-21 | 25 (5) |
| 2010– | Sweden | 17 (2) |
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1 Only league games are given. As of June 16, 2016 2 As of December 11, 2013 |
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Emir Bajrami (born March 7, 1988 in Pristina ) is a Swedish football player . The offensive player, who won the Swedish championship title with IF Elfsborg in 2006 , made his debut for the Swedish national team in 2010 .
Career
Career start and breakthrough in Sweden
Born in Kosovo , Bajrami came to Sweden with his family in 1992. There he grew up in Köping and started playing football at the local club Köpings FF . For the club he made his debut in 2005 in the men's team, which competed in the fourth-class division 3 Västra Svealand .
In 2006 Bajrami moved to IF Elfsborg in the Allsvenskan . The perspective player came on a short assignment in his first season and was thus celebrated as the Swedish champion at the end of the 2006 season . In his second season he was often used, but was only in four of his 14 season games in the starting line-up. In addition, he was able to gain first experience in the European Cup , when he got time in several games as a substitute.
With increasing time in the elite series in the 2007 season , he also drew the attention of the Swedish U21 coach Tommy Söderberg and made his debut in the junior national team on October 12, 2007 when he lost 3-2 to the Irish youth team was substituted on in the 64th minute for Christer Youseff . In his second outing four days later, a 5-1 victory over the Belgian youth team, he entered the team's list of goalscorers for the first time. In the following period he established himself in the squad and was used regularly.
During the 2008 season Bajrami fought for a regular place at IFE. On the first two matchdays he was still on the bench at the start of the game, on matchday three he was put into the starting line-up by coach Magnus Haglund in the 1-1 draw at Malmö FF and thanked him in the 19th minute with his first goal of the season. He was able to fight for a place in the regular eleven and was used in 28 of 30 season games by the end of the season. After Bajrami was able to maintain his regular place with the club team at the beginning of the following season, the selection coaches Tommy Söderberg and Jörgen Lennartsson nominated him at the end of May 2009 at the side of his club colleague Denni Avdić for the U-21 European Championship finals in his own country. There Bajrami was used in all three preliminary round matches. He missed the semi-final, in which Sweden was eliminated, because he had seen a total of two yellow cards in the previous tournament games and was therefore suspended.
National team debut and move abroad
By the end of the 2009 season, Bajrami was convincing as a regular in the Allsvenskan, so that the new national coach Erik Hamrén nominated him for the opening internationals in January 2010. On January 20, he was in the 1-0 win over the national team Oman through a goal by Anders Svensson at the side of the other debutants Guillermo Molins , Tom Söderberg and Daniel Larsson in the starting line-up until Alexander Farnerud replaced him in the 64th minute of play . In the following season he defended his regular place in the club and convinced with good performances. While he established himself in the circle of the national team, this did not go unnoticed by other European clubs and in summer 2010 the Dutch champions FC Twente Enschede announced that they had signed Bajrami.
In the Eredivisie , Bajrami was a regular on the field alongside Bryan Ruiz , Wout Brama , Luuk de Jong and Theo Janssen at the start of the season. In September, however, he got into training with his compatriot Rasmus Bengtsson , who injured him in a tackle . He then fell out until after the winter break. In the second half of the season he returned to the football field, but hardly got beyond the role of the supplementary player and was mainly a substitute. In the final of the KNVB Cup against Ajax Amsterdam shortly before the end of the season, coach Michel Preud'homme replaced him with a 2-2 draw in extra time, and with a goal from substitute Marc Janko he won his first title abroad. He was also substituted on in the direct duel for the championship title against the same opponent on the last match day a week later, but the game was lost with a 1: 3 defeat and thus the club missed the double as runner-up . Although he was not part of the tribe on the club side, he had established himself in the national team and played in a group with the selection of his Dutch adopted home for qualifying for the 2012 European Championship finals .
Under the new coach Co Adriaanse, Bajrami moved into the starting line-up in the course of the following season. While he settled in the top third of the table with the club until autumn, a 3-2 win in October 2011 in a direct duel with the Dutch national team, who were already group winners, managed to qualify directly for the European Championship finals as the best runner-up in the group. Although he was slowed down by individual injuries until the end of the season, so that he had only played 22 of the 34 season games, national coach Erik Hamrén appointed him to his 23-player squad for the European Championship finals shortly before the end of the season. For the 2012/13 season, Bajrami was loaned to AS Monaco by the Dutch . The team from the Principality of Monaco plays in Ligue 2 in neighboring France .
In 2013 Bajrami moved to the Greek first division club Panathinaikos Athens .
successes
- Greek Cup Winner : 2014
- Dutch cup winner with FC Twente: 2011
- Dutch runner-up : 2011
Web links
- Profile Bajramis at svenskfotboll.se
- Emir Bajrami in the database of weltfussball.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ svenskfotboll.se: "Inget sommaruppehåll för Emir Bajrami" (accessed on June 14, 2009)
- ↑ svenskfotboll.se: "U21 mr: Svensk förlust mot Ireland" (accessed February 20, 2008)
- ↑ svenskfotboll.se: "U21 herr: Storseger mot Belgium" (accessed February 20, 2008)
- ↑ svenskfotboll.se: "U21 gentleman: EM troops uttagen" (accessed on June 14, 2009)
- ↑ Patrick Hart: Sweden surge past nine-man Serbia , match report on uefa.com, June 23, 2009
- ↑ FC Twente signed Bajrami on May 25, 2010 on fctwente.de
- ↑ fotbollskanalen.se: "Bajrami skadad - av Rasmus Bengtsson" (accessed December 12, 2010)
- ↑ svenskfotboll.se: "EM troops uttagen" (accessed on June 11, 2012)
- ↑ Emir Bajrami op huurbasis naar AS Monaco , club website of FC Twente from 10 July 2012
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Bajrami, Emir |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 7, 1988 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pristina , SFR Yugoslavia |