Labinot Harbuzi

Labinot Harbuzi
Harbuzi in the Jersey of Manisaspor (February 2011)
Personnel
birthday	April 4, 1986
place of birth	Lund ,  Sweden
date of death	October 11, 2018
Place of death	Malmo ,  Sweden
position	midfield player
Juniors
Years	station
1992-1993	Håkanstorp BK
1994-1998	Malmo BI
1999-2000	Falkenbergs FF
2000-2001	Malmö FF
2001-2004	Feyenoord
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2004-2006	Feyenoord	0 (0)
2004-2005	→  SBV Excelsior  (loan)	9 (0)
2006-2009	Malmö FF	50 (4)
2009-2011	Gençlerbirliği	36 (4)
2012	Manisaspor	5 (0)
2012	Syrianska FC	3 (0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
2001	Sweden U-15	3 (2)
2002	Sweden U-16	9 (1)
2003	Sweden U-17	8 (2)
2004	Sweden U18	5 (1)
2006-2009	Sweden U-21	6 (1)
1 Only league games are given.

Labinot Harbuzi (born April 4, 1986 in Lund , † October 11, 2018 in Malmö ) was a Swedish football player . The midfielder , who went through all of the Swedish youth selections, began his professional career in the Netherlands.

Career

Harbuzi's parents come from Kosovo , but Harbuzi himself was Swede. He started playing football at Håkanstorp BK. In 1994 he joined the Malmö BI youth team before moving to Falkenbergs FF in 1999. In 2000 he went to Malmö FF for a short time and then moved to Feyenoord in the Netherlands at the age of 15 . At the same time he was appointed by Hans Lindbom for the first time in the Swedish youth selection, in which he was subsequently able to establish himself.

In 2004 Feyenoord awarded Harbuzi to the Rotterdam local rivals SBV Excelsior in the second-class Eerste Divisie . At the end of the season he returned after nine league games, but was not used in the honor division . Nevertheless, he moved up to the Swedish U-21 national team , in which he made his debut in February 2006 in the 0-1 loss to the Irish youth team by a goal by Ian Ward as a substitute from the 74th minute for Fredrik Petersson .

In March 2006, the Swedish club Malmö FF signed Harbuzi before the start of the 2006 season . Due to an injury, the former youth player of the club hardly played in his first two years in Sweden, so that he was no longer included in the junior selection. In the course of the 2008 season , the midfielder made his breakthrough at Malmö FF and in the following season he played eleven of the twelve season games right up to the summer break. Although he has not played another game for the U-21s since his debut, he was surprisingly appointed to the squad for the U-21 European Championship in Sweden in late May . In the squad of the selection coach Jörgen Lennartsson and Tommy Söderberg , he was next to Guillermo Molins one of two players at Malmö FF. In the course of the tournament he came to three short appearances and reached the semi-finals with the team, in which they were defeated by the English U-21 selection on penalties.

In July 2009 Harbuzi left Sweden and joined the Turkish club Gençlerbirliği , with whom he signed a contract valid until 2012. At the beginning he moved to the second line under the new coach Fuat Çapa in 2011. In December, the player and club dissolved his contract at the turn of the year. During the winter break he therefore moved to league rivals Manisaspor on a free transfer , for whom he played five league games until mid-March. Towards the end of the season he was no longer included in the squad. The club missed relegation at the end of the season, its expiring contract was not extended.

Harbuzi then returned to Sweden, where he signed a contract with first division club Syrianska FC in mid-August 2012 until the end of the year. At his new club he was unable to assert himself. By the end of the year he played only three season games as a substitute. After his contract expired at the turn of the year, he subsequently remained without a club.

death

Harbuzi died on October 11, 2018. According to his friend and football colleague Paweł Cibicki , with whom he met the previous day, Harbuzi showed no signs of illness. The next morning, Harbuzi suffered cardiac arrest and was found in critical condition by his father. After his parents performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation , an ambulance took him to the hospital, where he later died. Harbuzi was 32 years old.

Web links

• Labinot Harbuzi in the database of svenskfotboll.se
• Labinot Harbuzi in the database of weltfussball.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Förre MFF-spelaren Labinot Harbuzi död. In: Expressen . October 11, 2018, accessed October 12, 2018 (Swedish). 
2. ↑ Malmö: Harbuzi vill få chansen. In: svenskfotboll.se. November 8, 2008, accessed October 13, 2018 (Swedish). 
3. ↑ U21: Irländsk 1-0 seger mot Sverige. In: svenskfotboll.se. February 28, 2006, Retrieved October 13, 2018 (Swedish). 
4. ↑ Harbuzi återvänder till MFF. (No longer available online.) In: Sydsvenska Dagblad . March 25, 2006, archived from the original on December 27, 2015 ; Retrieved October 13, 2018 (Swedish). 
5. ↑ Stefan Persson: Harbuzi skadad. In: Aftonbladet . May 25, 2009, Retrieved October 13, 2018 (Swedish). 
6. ↑ U21 mr: EM troops uttagen. (No longer available online.) In: svenskfotboll.se. May 23, 2009, archived from the original on September 27, 2013 ; Retrieved October 13, 2018 (Swedish). 
7. ↑ Stefan Persson: Harbuzi clear for Gençlerbirligi. In: Aftonbladet . July 11, 2009, accessed October 13, 2018 (Swedish). 
8. ^ Oskar Månsson: Labinot Harbuzi river sitt contract. In: Aftonbladet . December 20, 2011, accessed October 13, 2018 (Swedish). 
9. ↑ January Grigo: Labinot Harbuzi till Syrianska FC. (No longer available online.) In: syrianskafc.com. Archived from the original on February 3, 2013 ; Retrieved October 13, 2018 (Swedish). 
10. ↑ Labinot Harbuzi död - blev 32 år. In: Aftonbladet . October 11, 2018, accessed October 12, 2018 (Swedish). 
11. ↑ Kristoffer Bergström: Pappan: “Vi har folk som gästar och stöttar oss”. In: Aftonbladet. October 11, 2018, accessed October 12, 2018 (Swedish).