Xherdan Shaqiri

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Xherdan Shaqiri
Xherdan Shaqiri 2018.jpg
Recording from 2018
Personnel
birthday October 10, 1991
place of birth Gnjilane ,  SFR Yugoslavia
Size 165 cm
position midfield
Juniors
Years station
1995-2000 SV Augst
2000-2008 FC Basel
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2008-2009 FC Basel U21 19 0(8)
2009–2012 FC Basel 92 (18)
2012-2015 FC Bayern Munich 52 (11)
2015 Inter Milan 15 0(1)
2015-2018 Stoke City 84 (15)
2018– Liverpool FC 31 0(7)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2007-2008 Switzerland U17 10 0(0)
2008-2009 Switzerland U18 5 0(0)
2009 Switzerland U19 5 0(3)
2009-2011 Switzerland U21 7 0(1)
2010– Switzerland 81 (22)
1 Only league games are given.
Status: July 16, 2020

2 As of June 5, 2019

Xherdan Shaqiri [ d͡ʒɛɾˈdan ʃaˈciɾɨ ] (born October 10, 1991 in Gnjilane , SFR Yugoslavia ) is a Swiss football player . The midfielder is a Swiss national player and has been under contract with Liverpool FC in the English Premier League since July 2018 .

Birth and childhood

Xherdan Shaqiri was born in 1991 to Albanian parents in Gnjilane, Yugoslavia (now Gjilan, Kosovo ). He and his family moved to Switzerland at an early age . Xherdan grew up on a farm in Augst .

His brother Erdin plays in the 2nd division for FC Dardania Basel and works as a player's agent.

societies

youth

Shaqiri began playing football at SV Augst when he was four and moved to the youth department of FC Basel when he was eight . At the “U-15 Nike Cup 2007” he was named the best player of the tournament. For the 2nd team he scored eight goals in 19 games in the 1st division between 2008 and 2009 .

FC Basel

As a 17-year-old, he received a three-year professional contract with FC Basel on January 2, 2009. He made his debut on July 12, 2009 on the first day of the game in the 2-0 defeat in the away game against FC St. Gallen , when he came on for Valentin Stocker in the 62nd minute of the game . He scored his first goal on November 9, 2009 (16th matchday) in a 4-1 home win against Neuchâtel Xamax - substituted in the 89th minute - with the goal to make it 3-1 in the 90th minute. Shaqiri won the double in his first professional season with FC Basel and the Swiss football championship again the following season . Overall, he won three championships and twice the Swiss Cup with FC Basel .

FC Bayern Munich

Shaqiri moved to FC Bayern Munich for the 2012/13 season . He signed a contract that ran until June 30, 2016. After a successful preparation for the season, during which he scored seven goals in nine games, he won his first title with FC Bayern Munich on August 12, 2012. In the game for the DFL Supercup his team won 2-1 against the champions Borussia Dortmund , with Shaqiri coming on for Arjen Robben in the 86th minute . In the first round of the DFB Cup , he was at the beginning of the second half for Franck Ribéry on as a substitute and scored the 4: 0 victory at Jahn Regensburg a hit and was preparing two more in front, while the other two new additions were Mario Mandzukic and Claudio Pizarro the Goal scorers. He made his Bundesliga debut on August 25, 2012 (1st matchday) in a 3-0 win in the away game against SpVgg Greuther Fürth . In the 72nd minute he was substituted for Bastian Schweinsteiger . After Shaqiri had already prepared Mario Gómez's 1-0 win in the 4-1 win in the Champions League game against BATE Baryssau , he scored his first goal for Bayern in the Champions League with a header to make it 3-0. Shaqiri scored his first Bundesliga goal on December 14, 2012 (17th matchday) in a 1-1 draw against Borussia Mönchengladbach with the goal of the final score in the 59th minute. In his first season he won the triple with Bayern Munich , in his second the double .

Inter Milan

After Shaqiri only made nine appearances in the first half of the 2014/15 Bundesliga season, despite many injuries, in which he scored a goal, he moved to the Italian first division club Inter Milan on January 9, 2015 . He was initially loaned to Inter until the end of the season, but at the same time it was agreed that Inter would tie him to itself for around 18 million euros in the summer and provide him with a contract that ran until June 30, 2019. He made his Serie A debut on January 17, 2015 (19th matchday) in a goalless draw in the away game against FC Empoli with a substitution for Lukas Podolski in the 74th minute. He scored his first goal on February 15, 2015 (23rd matchday) in a 4-1 win in the away game against Atalanta Bergamo with a penalty in the third minute. Shaqiri made his debut in the Europa League on February 19, 2015 in Glasgow. He was also in the starting line-up in the next round, the round of 16 against VfL Wolfsburg , but later retired with Inter.

Stoke City

After half a year in Italy , Shaqiri moved to Stoke City for the 2015/16 season , for whom he made his 90-minute debut on August 22, 2015 (3rd matchday) in the 1-1 away game against Norwich City .

Liverpool FC

After Stoke City's relegation from the Premier League , Shaqiri announced that they would leave the club. In July 2018 he joined Liverpool FC and signed a five-year contract until the summer of 2023. Liverpool FC paid £ 13 million as a transfer fee to Stoke City . He made his debut on July 28, 2018 at the International Champions Cup against Manchester United . Shaqiri came on as a substitute for Mohamed Salah at the break and then prepared a goal and scored a fall retractor himself to make it 4-1. He won the 2019 Champions League with Liverpool ; he was not used in the final. In December 2019 Shaqiri and Liverpool won the 2019 FIFA Club World Cup against Flamengo Rio de Janeiro 1-0 after extra time.

National team

Shaqiri in the national team jersey (2012)

14 November 2009 Shaqiri debuted in the Swiss U-21 team , which in Trabzon the choice of Turkey with 3: defeated first He took part in the U-21 European Championship in Denmark from June 11 to 25, 2011 and scored the 1-0 winner in the first group game against the hosts . With the team he made it to the final , which was lost 2-0 to Spain .

He made his debut in the senior national team on March 3, 2010 in St. Gallen, losing 3-1 in the test international match against the Uruguayan national soccer team . Nominated by Ottmar Hitzfeld for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa in May, he played a twelve-minute mission in the last goalless group game against Honduras on June 25th . He scored his first international goal on September 7, 2010 in Basel when he lost 3-1 to England in the context of the European Championship qualification . On September 6, 2011, he managed a hat trick in the same competition in a 3-1 win against Bulgaria in St. Jakob-Park in Basel .

Shaqiri was also appointed to the Swiss national team for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil by coach Ottmar Hitzfeld . He was in the preliminary round against the selection of Ecuador (2: 1), France (2: 5) and Honduras (3: 0) in the starting line-up. In the game against Honduras he scored all three goals. Shaqiri was voted Man of the Match twice (games against Ecuador and Honduras) .

At the 2016 European Championships in France, he was part of the team . Shaqiri prepared the game-winning 1-0 through Fabian Schär in the opening game . He was also on the starting line-up in all other European Championship games and in the round of 16 against Poland he scored 1: 1 with a side pull from the edge of the penalty area just before the end of regular time. The goal was voted goal of the month in Germany . After the extension of the game he was one of the successful shooters in penalty shootouts ; since Granit Xhaka missed, his team was eliminated anyway.

He also took part in the 2018 World Cup with the Swiss national team and was part of the team . In the second group game against Serbia , he scored the winning goal in the last minute of the game to make it 2-1 for the Swiss.

successes

FC Basel

Bayern Munich

Liverpool FC

National team

Awards

Others

As a professional footballer, Xherdan Shaqiri is contractually prohibited from skiing or snowboarding . Regardless of this, at the end of 2013 he and his two older brothers entered into a cooperation with Switzerland Tourism and the holiday destination Arosa , the aim of which was to make winter sports better known among the second -class people living in Switzerland . In particular, Shaqiri's around 1,900,000 Facebook fans should be addressed directly.

According to FIFA information, Shaqiri is 1.65 m tall and weighs 78 kg, so he has a BMI of around 29 and was the outfield player with the highest BMI at the 2018 World Cup . Due to his stature, he is referred to by the media as a «power cube».

Web links

Commons : Xherdan Shaqiri  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Pronunciation of "Xherdan Shaqiri" on forvo.com
  2. ↑ Blick.ch (ed.): Shaqiri goes to Aargau. October 4, 2011, accessed September 6, 2012 .
  3. ↑ player profile , www.fussballd21.de
  4. ↑ Children interviewing FC Basel star Xherdan Shaqiri , www.sonntagonline.ch on April 28, 2012
  5. ↑ Three -year professional contract for Xherdan Shaqiri ( memento from July 30, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) on www.fcb.ch
  6. ↑ In the first round of the Axpo Super League, FC Basel lost 0: 2 against FC St. Gallen ( Memento from October 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on www.fcb.ch
  7. ↑ FC Basel continues to delight its fans. In the top game against Neuchâtel Xamax, FCB won 4: 1 ( memento from October 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on www.fcb.ch
  8. ↑ Xherdan Shaqiri will play for FC Bayern Munich from summer 2012. (No longer available online.) Official homepage of FC Basel, February 9, 2012, archived from the original on April 14, 2012 ; Retrieved December 8, 2012 .
  9. ↑ FC Bayern sign Xherdan Shaqiri. Official homepage of FC Bayern Munich, February 9, 2012, accessed on December 8, 2012 .
  10. ↑ Sebastian Winter: Bayern victory in the cup. New meets well. Spiegel Online , August 21, 2012, accessed August 21, 2012 .
  11. ↑ See the Inter Milan transfer list on the Serie A website (accessed January 9, 2015).
  12. ↑ kicker online : Shaqiri: Fix at Inter Milan , January 9, 2015, accessed on January 9, 2015.
  13. ^ Message on the Inter Milan website
  14. ↑ Shaqiri delighted to finally be a potter , Stoke City website, accessed on August 11, 2015
  15. ↑ Shaqiri in an interview: "I better not call my father right after a game". Watson.ch , June 2, 2018, accessed July 15, 2018 .
  16. ^ Liverpool complete Xherdan Shaqiri transfer. Liverpool FC, July 13, 2018, accessed July 15, 2018 .
  17. ↑ Liverpool sign Xherdan Shaqiri for £ 13m on five-year deal from Stoke. The Telegraph , July 13, 2018, accessed July 13, 2018 .
  18. ↑ FIFA Club World Cup 2019 , match report on soccerway.com, accessed December 21, 2019
  19. ↑ Xherdan Shaqiri for U21 nachselektioniert on www.fussball.ch
  20. ↑ Xherdan Shaqiri is in the official line-up of the senior national team for the international match against Uruguay on March 3rd in St. Gallen ( Memento from August 1st, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) on www.fcb.ch
  21. ↑ Four FCB players in the Swiss World Cup squad ( memento from July 31, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) on www.fcb.ch
  22. ↑ Match result Switzerland vs. England 7th September 2010
  23. ↑ Shaqiri, Shaqiri, Shaqiri - Switzerland is back in the running on 20min.ch
  24. ↑ Shaqiri at the 2014 World Cup. Kicker online, accessed on June 26, 2014 .
  25. ↑ Schweiger Shaqiri: Three crisp answers. kicker online, June 26, 2014, accessed June 26, 2014 .
  26. ↑ 2014 FIFA World Cup . FIFA.com. Retrieved July 7, 2014
  27. ^ Erb Dominik: Switzerland turns the game against Serbia . ( football.ch [accessed June 23, 2018]).
  28. ↑ Xherdan Shaqiri is online player of the year on NZZ
  29. ↑ Sportschau: Goal of the Month June 2016
  30. ↑ Shaqiri is supposed to turn Secondos into winter sports enthusiasts. In: www.srf.ch. December 27, 2013, accessed January 5, 2014 .
  31. ↑ The magical dwarf has reached the top. In: www.schweizer-illustrierte.ch. January 3, 2014, accessed January 5, 2014 .
  32. ^ List of Players. (PDF) 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia ™. FIFA, accessed June 18, 2018 .
  33. ↑ Shaqiri is the “thickest” outfield player - and 9 other exciting graphics for the World Cup . In: watson.ch . ( watson.ch [accessed June 18, 2018]).
  34. ^ Christian Eichler , Munich: Bayern Munich: Swiss power cubes . In: FAZ.NET . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed June 18, 2018]).
  35. ↑ WM - An encounter with the “magic dwarf” . In: Swiss Radio and Television (SRF) . ( srf.ch [accessed on June 18, 2018]).
  36. ↑ Blick: Power cube has to increase: Shaqiri is sweating in the torture cellar. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on June 18, 2018 ; accessed on June 18, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Shaqiri, Xherdan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss football player
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH Gnjilane , SFR Yugoslavia