Leart Paqarada

Leart Paqarada
Personal information
Full name	Leart Paqarada
Date of birth	(1994-11-08) 8 November 1994
Place of birth	Bremen, Germany
Height	1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Playing position	Left back
Club information
Current team	SV Sandhausen
Number	19
Youth career
0000–2003	Werder Bremen
2003–2013	Bayer Leverkusen
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps^†	(Gls)^†
2012–2014	Bayer Leverkusen II	29	(1)
2014–	SV Sandhausen	14	(0)
National team^‡
2009–2010	Germany U16^[1]	7	(0)
2010–2011	Germany U17^[2]	6	(0)
2012	Albania U-21	1	(0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 15:59, 1 March 2015 (UTC). † Appearances (Goals). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 5 March 2014

Leart Paqarada (born 8 October 1994) is a Albanian footballer of Kosovar ancestry who plays as a left back for SV Sandhausen in the 2. Bundesliga.^[3]

Club career

Paqarada joined SV Sandhausen in 2014 from Bayer 04 Leverkusen II. He made his 2. Bundesliga debut on 10 August 2014 against 1. FC Kaiserslautern. He played the full game in a 1-1 draw. ^[4]

In 2012 Paqarada became an Albanian citizen and played a match with the Albania national under-21 football team. On October 1, 2014 Paqarada received his first call up from Skënder Gega, to play with Albania national under-21 football team in a friendly match against Romania U21.^[5]

SV Sandhausen – current squad

1 Knaller 4 M. Müller 5 Schulz 6 Linsmayer 7 Thiede 8 Adler 9 Bouhaddouz 10 Zillner 11 Kuhn 12 Wooten 13 Gartler 14 Kister 15 Bieler 17 Hübner 18 Zellner 19 Paqarada 20 Okoronkwo 21 Stiefler 22 Hiegl 23 Kratz 24 Nono 26 Jovanović 27 Olajengbesi 29 Schaaf 30 Kübler 31 Kulovits 32 Achenbach 33 Riemann 34 Pfertzel 36 Machmeier Manager: Schwartz