Përparim Hetemaj

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Përparim Hetemaj
Personnel
birthday	December 12, 1986
place of birth	Srbica ,  SFR Yugoslavia
size	176 cm
position	midfield
Juniors
Years	station
1993-2004	HJK Helsinki
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2004-2005	Club 04	21 (6)
2005-2006	HJK Helsinki	33 (2)
2006-2009	AEK Athens	16 (0)
2008	→  Apollon Kalamarias  (loan)	10 (1)
2009-2010	FC Twente Enschede	0 (0)
2010-2011	Brescia Calcio	30 (2)
2011–	Chievo Verona	177 (1)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
2005	Finland U-19	4 (2)
2005–	Finland U-21	16 (3)
2009–	Finland	48 (4)
1 Only league games are given. Status: end of season 2016/17 2 As of November 3, 2017

Përparim "Perpa" Hetemaj (born December 12, 1986 in Srbica , SFR Yugoslavia ) is a Finnish football player of Kosovo - Albanian descent. The midfielder has played for Chievo Verona in the Italian Serie A since 2011 . His brother Mehmet Hetemaj, who is almost a year younger to the day, is also a professional footballer.

Career

youth

Born in Kosovo, Hetemaj began his active football career in 1993 in the youth department of HJK Helsinki , just one year after he emigrated with his mother and brother to Malmi , a district of Helsinki . There he went through almost all youth league classes until 2004 and at the end of his youth playing time came to some missions for the fighting team of Klubi-04 , which is the reserve team of the first division club HJK Helsinki.

Club career

After only a short time in the reserve team, Hermaj made the leap into the professional team of the HJK, which has its game operations in the top division of Finnish football, the Veikkausliiga . There he made his professional debut on April 28, 2005 in a 2-0 home win over Tornion Palloveikot . His first goal as a professional footballer came on July 30, 2005 in a 7-0 home win over Rovaniemi PS .

After receiving an offer from the Greek Super League club AEK Athens , Hetemaj moved to this in the summer of 2006 for a transfer fee of 450,000 euros. He previously played 33 championship games for HJK Helsinki, scoring two goals and winning the 2006 Finnish Football Cup with the team . At the club from the Greek capital Athens he made his team and league debut on September 9, 2006 when he was substituted on for Panagiotis Lagos in the 81st minute of the 1-1 draw against city rivals Atromitos Athens . Shortly after his league debut, Hetemaj was used in the 2006/07 UEFA Champions League . In four games in Group H he was in action; He had his first in the 1-1 draw against RSC Anderlecht , when he was on the field from the start and was replaced by loan player Andrija Delibašić from the 71st minute onwards. After the six games in the group phase, the team was eliminated from the current competition in third place, as only the first and second placed in each group are eligible for promotion to the knockout round.

During the 2006/07 season , Perpa Hetemaj was used in seven championship games before he switched to league rivals Apollon Kalamarias on loan in early 2008 for the 2007/08 season. There he made his team debut on February 10th when he was on the pitch in the 2-2 draw against Diethnis Enosis Ergotelis and was replaced by Dimitrios Kontodimos from the 72nd minute . During the game, he provided the template for Luis Eduardo Brito's 1-0 opening goal . After ten championship appearances, as well as one hit and one template , he returned to his home club after the end of the season.

Immediately after his return he came to the team in the second qualifying round for the 2008/09 UEFA Cup for a 62-minute assignment. With a total score of 2: 3, the team was eliminated from the current competition in the second qualifying round against the Cypriot club Omonia Nicosia . Furthermore, Hetemaj came during the 2008/09 season to appearances in nine league games, as well as in three play-off games. He also came to the Kypello Elladas , the Greek football cup for a short term.

On August 31, 2009, Hetemaj's move to the Netherlands for FC Twente Enschede was announced. In return for Perpa Hetemaj's move to Twente Enschede, Youssouf Hersi came to AEK Athens, most recently at this club. Furthermore, the Finn was presented with a one-year contract with an option for an additional year.

He made his team debut on September 23, 2009 in an 8-0 win over SC Joure in the KNVB-Pokal , the Dutch cup competition. In the game he was substituted on in the 65th minute for Ismael Cheik Tioté .

International

Hetemaj first met the Finnish U-21 team in 2005 when he played for the first time in a game against the Estonian U-21s . What followed were 16 U-21 missions and three hits to date. Furthermore, Përparim Hetemaj was nominated together with his brother Mehmet for the U-21 European Championship 2009 in Sweden . There he represented Finland in all three group matches of the tournament before he was eliminated with the team.

On February 4, 2009 Përparim Hetemaj made his senior national team debut when he came into play in the 5-1 defeat against Japan's national team from the 84th minute for Kari Arkivuo . In the same game, Përparim's brother Mehmet made his A-team debut when he came on for Jussi Kujala in the 46th minute .

successes

• Finnish Cup Winner : 2006

Private

Together with his younger brother Mehmet he played in the youth department of Klubi-04, as well as in the Finnish U-21 and senior national team.

Web links

• Përparim Hetemaj in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Përparim Hetemaj in the database of weltfussball.de
• Interview with Përparim Hetemaj (May 11, 2007) (Finnish), accessed September 10, 2009

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Search engine for players of the Veikkausliiga ( Memento of the original from January 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Report on the change to FC Twente Enschede on their club homepage (Dutch), accessed on September 10, 2009