Granite Xhaka

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Granite Xhaka
Xhaka 2018.png
in the jersey of Arsenal FC (2018)
Personnel
birthday September 27, 1992
place of birth Basel ,  Switzerland
Size 185 cm
position midfield
Juniors
Years station
1997-2002 FC Concordia Basel
2003-2009 FC Basel
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2010–2012 FC Basel 44 0(2)
2012-2016 Borussia Monchengladbach 108 0(6)
2016– Arsenal FC 121 0(7)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2008-2009 Switzerland U-17 14 0(2)
2009-2010 Switzerland U-18 14 0(3)
2010-2011 Switzerland U-19 10 0(3)
2010-2011 Switzerland U-21 5 0(0)
2011– Switzerland 82 (12)
1 Only league games are given.
As of March 14, 2020

2 As of November 18, 2019

Granit Xhaka [ ˈʤaka ] (born September 27, 1992 in Basel ) is a Swiss football player . He is used as a central, defensive or attacking midfielder and is under contract with Arsenal FC .

In 2017, Xhaka was named Swiss Footballer of the Year .

Birth and childhood

Granit Xhaka is the son of Kosovar Albanian parents who came from Pristina , then Yugoslavia . He grew up with his older brother Taulant , who is also a professional footballer but is an Albanian national player , in the Basel district of St. Johann. At the EM 2016 , the brothers met in the international match in the group stage on June 11th.

Career

societies

Started at Concordia and FC Basel

When he was four years old, Xhaka was taken to training at FC Concordia Basel by his father and brother . In January 2003 he moved to the youth department of FC Basel . Three years later he played for their U-21 team. Between 2008 and 2010 he played 37 games and scored eleven goals.

From the 2010/11 season Xhaka was in the squad of the first team. He made his official game debut on July 28, 2010 in the qualifying game for the 2010/11 Champions League season against VSC Debrecen . This away game at Budapest's Szusza Ferenc Stadium was won 2-0 by FC Basel, with Granit Xhaka scoring the second goal. He scored his first goal in the Swiss football championship in the meantime 3-1 in the 5-1 home win against FC Thun on May 15, 2011.

In the 2010/11 and 2011/12 seasons , Xhaka became Swiss champions with FC Basel and the 2011/12 cup winners as well.

Xhaka in Gladbacher Training (2012)

Borussia Monchengladbach

For the season 2012/13 undertook Borussia Moenchengladbach Xhaka. He signed a five-year contract until June 30, 2017. Xhaka made his debut for Gladbach on August 18, 2012, when he was in the starting eleven in the 2-0 win in the first round of the DFB Cup against Alemannia Aachen and played through. He made his Bundesliga debut on August 25, 2012, when he was used in the 2-1 win on the first match day against TSG 1899 Hoffenheim ; his first Bundesliga goal was on September 15, 2012, when he scored the equalizer for Gladbach in a 3-2 defeat on matchday three against 1. FC Nürnberg . Xhaka was a regular at the start of the season before a crisis ensued. After a 4-0 defeat against SV Werder in October 2012 , Granit Xhaka lost his regular place due to a more defensive style of play. So he was mostly substituted from the ninth game day. After strong performances in the 2014/15 season , his contract was extended to June 30, 2019. With the change of coach in September 2015, he became team captain and was able to confirm his strong performances during the season. In the summer of 2016, Xhaka moved to Arsenal for a rumored transfer fee of 45 million euros , making it Borussia's record transfer. In total, he completed 140 competitive games for the club during his time in Mönchengladbach and scored nine goals.

Arsenal FC

On May 25, 2016, Xhaka and Arsenal agreed to switch to the 2016/17 season . Xhaka signed a contract that runs until June 30, 2021. He made his Premier League debut on August 14 in a 3: 4 home defeat by Liverpool . Head coach Unai Emery appointed the Swiss in September 2019 as the new team captain to succeed Laurent Koscielny . At the beginning of November 2019, after a falling out with fans, Xhaka was removed as captain again; he was followed by his teammate Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang .

National team

Granit Xhaka in a duel with Lionel Messi (2012)

For the Swiss U-17 national team , he played 12 games and scored two goals. He made his debut on September 24, 2008 in a 2-1 home win in the World Cup qualifier against Iceland . With the team he was world champion at the U-17 World Cup in Nigeria in 2009 .

On June 4, 2011, he made his debut for the Swiss senior team in the European Championship qualifier against England at Wembley Stadium . He scored his first international goal in the friendly on November 15, 2011 in the 1-0 away win against Luxembourg at the Josy Barthel Stadium .

Xhaka was in the 2014 World Cup in Brazil in the squad of Switzerland , studied there until retirement in knockout round against Argentina all games and scored in the defeat in the first round against France 's only goal to the final score of 2: 5th

At the 2016 European Championships in France, he was included in the Swiss squad and started the tournament in the regular team. There he met his brother Taulant , who played for Albania , which was the first time that two brothers faced each other in a European Championship match. He played all four games over the full length of the game. In the second round against Poland he missed the penalty shootout only player his penalty; Switzerland dropped out.

Xhaka took part in the 2018 World Cup with the national team. In the second group game against Serbia he scored the goal to 1: 1; The Swiss won the game 2-1.

titles and achievements

FC Basel
Arsenal FC
National team

Awards

Others

In the 2015/16 season, he set the Bundesliga record for the most dismissals in a season, which he holds together with four other players with three dismissals.

Personal

Xhaka married his girlfriend in July 2017.

Web links

Commons : Granit Xhaka  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ SRF: Xhaka honored as Footballer of the Year , accessed on August 29, 2017
  2. ↑ Granit Xhaka: "The question is: when do I go?" on TagesWoche from January 9, 2012
  3. ↑ The brother duel. Retrieved on March 14, 2019 (Swiss Standard German).
  4. ↑ fifa.com: "Granit Xhaka plays against his brother"
  5. ↑ Albania vs. Switzerland: Xhaka against Xhaka in Spiegel online from June 11, 2016
  6. ↑ Football star Granit Xhaka: I give all my money to my parents , www.sonntagonline.ch from December 15, 2012
  7. ↑ Player profile ( memento from June 30, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), www.swisslife.ch
  8. ↑ Xhaka index card
  9. ↑ Match report VSC Debrecen - FC Basel 1893 on www.transfermarkt.ch
  10. ↑ Champions League: Important FCB victory at Debrecen on Swiss television on July 28, 2010
  11. ↑ In the 5: 1 of Basel against Thun Granit Xhaka scored his 1st goal in his 18th Super League appearance  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on Swiss television from May 15, 2011@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.srf.ch  
  12. ↑ FC Basel are Swiss champions . fussball.ch. May 25, 2011. Retrieved May 31, 2011.
  13. ↑ Borussia sign Granit Xhaka . borussia.de. May 18, 2012. Retrieved May 18, 2012.
  14. ↑ David Nienhaus: Gladbach's miraculous transformation in Game 1 according to Lucien Favre - and what the new Captain Granit Xhaka has to do with it . In: watson.ch . September 24th 15.
  15. ↑ Arsenal agree deal with Granit Xhaka . Arsenal.com, accessed May 25, 2016
  16. ↑ Xhaka moves to Arsenal London (sic!) Borussia.de, accessed on June 22, 2016
  17. ↑ Match Report on Arsenal.com, accessed September 9, 2016
  18. ↑ Granit Xhaka: Arsenal manager Unai Emery names midfielder as new captain , bbc.com, accessed September 28, 2019
  19. ↑ Xhaka deposed as captain of Arsenal , srf.ch, accessed on November 6, 2019
  20. ↑ Xhaka: “I don't want to end up on the street” ( memento from November 24, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) on blick.ch from November 20, 2009
  21. ↑ Granit Xhaka: “(Almost) everything again as before” ( Memento from November 22, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) on 20 minutes from November 18, 2009
  22. ↑ Swiss team with debutante . Neue Zürcher Zeitung AG. 2011. Retrieved June 4, 2011.
  23. ↑ Match report England-Switzerland . In: transfermarkt.ch . 2011. Retrieved June 4, 2011.
  24. ^ A weak performance for Switzerland Match report Luxembourg-Switzerland November 15, 2011 . In: weltfussball.de . 2011. Retrieved November 15, 2011.
  25. ^ Erb Dominik: Switzerland turns the game against Serbia . ( football.ch [accessed June 23, 2018]).
  26. ↑ Granit Xhaka only has one pass. In: Tages-Anzeiger / SonntagsZeitung on July 14, 2018.
  27. ↑ Max Kern: Granit Xhaka is under the hood. Blick.ch , July 6, 2017, accessed on June 26, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Xhaka, granite
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss football player
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1992
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel , Switzerland