Arianit Shaqiri

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Arianit Shaqiri
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Personal information
Full name Arianit Shaqiri
Date of birth (1988-08-27) 27 August 1988 (age 33)[1]
Place of birth Zhegër, Gjilan, SFR Yugoslavia (now Kosovo)
Position(s) Midfielder[1]
Youth career
0000 SV Augst
0000 FC Pratteln
0000–2010 Basel
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2010–2012 FC Oberdorf 12 (2)
2012–2015 FC Pratteln
2015–2017 Dardania Basel
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Arianit "Ari" Shaqiri (born 27 August 1988)[1] is a Swiss-Albanian youth football coach and the founder of PrioSocc Academy.[2][3] He is the eldest brother of Swiss-Albanian professional football player Xherdan Shaqiri.[4][2][3][5]

Early life[]

Arianit Shaqiri was born on 27 August 1988 in Zhegër,[1] Gjilan, Kosovo.[4] He is the oldest of four siblings, one of them being the professional footballer Xherdan Shaqiri.[2] His parents, Isa and Fatime, are Kosovo Albanian immigrants who migrated from Kosovo to Augst, Switzerland when Shaqiri was very young.[4][6] His father worked as a laborer, while his mother as a cleaner.[6]

While growing up, Shaqiri wanted to become a police officer. In 2012, he completed his apprenticeship as an auto mechanic and a full-service as a fusilier in the Swiss Armed Forces.[7][6]

Career[]

Shaqiri started his football career by playing in the FC Augst and FC Pratteln youth teams.[8] Later, he played in the FC Basel's U14 to the U18 teams.[2] His teammates there included Ivan Rakitić, Yann Sommer, Zdravko Kuzmanović, Timm Klose, and Simone Grippo, who were later called to play for the Switzerland national football youth teams.[7][9] Due to a knee injury, Shaqiri was unable to become a professional footballer,[2] and made it only to the 2. Liga Interregional.[7]

In 2012, Shaqiri moved in Munich, Germany to live with his brother Xherdan who transferred to FC Bayern Munich. When Xherdan transferred to Inter Milan in 2015, Arianit briefly lived in Milan, Italy with him,[9] then moved back to Switzerland to live with his other family members.[7] There, he established PrioSocc Academy, a football camp for kids aged 6 to 16 that has six coaches, five of whom are Albanian from Kosovo and North Macedonia.[3][9]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d "Arianit Shaqiri". Playmaker. Retrieved 2021-02-17.
  2. ^ a b c d e Latscha, Heiko (2017-07-05). "Arianit Shaqiri setzt auf die Zukunft". Telebasel (in German). Retrieved 2021-02-17.
  3. ^ a b c "Big Mama në akademinë e futbollit të vëllait të Xherdan Shaqirit". RTV21 (in Albanian). 2019-02-10. Retrieved 2021-02-17.
  4. ^ a b c Zimmerli, Jill (2014-06-04). "World Cup 2014: Switzerland profile – Xherdan Shaqiri". The Guardian. Retrieved 2021-02-17.
  5. ^ Böni, Andreas (2018-10-01). "Shaq sucht das grösste Schweizer Talent". Blick (in German). Retrieved 2021-02-17.
  6. ^ a b c Eisenring, Yvonne (2012-08-07). "Xherdan Shaqiri: eine Begegnung mit dem besten Fussballspieler der Schweiz". Annabelle (in German). Retrieved 2021-02-17.
  7. ^ a b c d Böni, Andreas (2019-03-13). "Xherdan wird Gänsehaut haben". Blick (in German). Retrieved 2021-02-17.
  8. ^ Strasser, Patrick (2012-10-28). "Shaqiri: "Braver Bruder statt Bad Boy"". Abendzeitung (in German). Retrieved 2021-02-18.
  9. ^ a b c Dika, Fitim (2018-06-12). "Arianit Shaqiri tregon prapaskenat e Xherdanit, ja pse tre vëllezërit nuk kanë tatu". Albinfo (in Albanian). Retrieved 2021-02-18.

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