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Imran Bunjaku

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Imran Bunjaku
Personal information
Date of birth (1992-10-18)18 October 1992(age 31)
Place of birth Zürich,Switzerland
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s) Defensive midfielder
Youth career
Grasshoppers
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2010–2014 Grasshoppers II 61 (0)
2013–2014 Grasshoppers 5 (0)
2014–2021 Schaffhausen 133 (6)
2021–2022 Grasshoppers 0 (0)
2021–2022 →Aarau(loan) 25 (1)
2022–2023 Aarau 23 (1)
International career‡
2011–2014 Albania U21 13 (0)
2014– Kosovo 3 (1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 18 June 2023
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 8 October 2011

Imran Bunjaku(born 18 October 1992) is a professionalfootballerwho plays as amidfielder.[1][2]Born in Switzerland, he plays for theKosovo national team.

Club career[edit]

Before the 2021–22 season, he returned toGrasshoppersafter six-and-a-half seasons atSchaffhausen.On 30 August 2021, he moved toAarauon loan.[3]On 14 June 2022, he signed a one-year contract with an option to extend with Aarau, after his contract at Grasshoppers was not renewed.[4]

International career[edit]

Originating from Kosovo with ethnic Albanian parents and born in Switzerland, Bunjaku was eligible to play for Switzerland, Albania and Kosovo if a national team should be formed, but in March 2011 he answered the call by Albania's Under-21 coach Artan Bushati for a non official friendly tournament held inSlovenia.[5]

He officially gained Albanian citizenship on 26 August 2011 along with his Grasshopper teammateMërgim Brahimi,in order to compete in theUEFA Under-21 Championshipqualifiers.[6][7]

Since 2014 Bunjaku also received call-up from Kosovo[8]and he made his debut forKosovoin a May 2014friendly matchagainstSenegaland has, as of January 2019, earned a total of 3 caps, scoring 1 goal.[9]However, he yet to make his competitive debut.

References[edit]

  1. ^UEFA Profile
  2. ^Footballdatabase profile
  3. ^"BUNJAKU ON LOAN TO FC AARAU RIBEIRO LEAVES GC".Grasshoppers.30 August 2021.Retrieved19 October2021.
  4. ^"Imran Bunjaku hat seinen Vertrag beim FC Aarau verlängert".nau.ch.2022-06-14.Retrieved2022-07-15.
  5. ^"Bushati merr 10 talentë në Slloveni"(in Albanian). Panorama Sport. 2011-03-16. Archived fromthe originalon 2011-10-04.Retrieved2011-05-06.
  6. ^"Brahimi e Bunjaku bëhen" shqiptarë ""(in Albanian). Koha. 2011-08-27.Retrieved2011-08-27.
  7. ^"Brahimi e Bunjaku bëhen" shqiptarë ""(in Albanian). RTV 21. 2011-08-27. Archived fromthe originalon 2012-03-18.Retrieved2011-08-27.
  8. ^"Më 31 gusht nis grumbullimi i Përfaqësueses"(in Albanian). Football Federation of Kosovo. 22 August 2015.Retrieved11 October2016.
  9. ^"Player Database".eu-football.info.Retrieved2019-01-27.

External links[edit]

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