Leart Paqarada
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Leart Paqarada | ||
Date of birth | 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 | |||
–2003 | Werder Bremen | ||
2003–2013 | Bayer Leverkusen | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2012–2014 | Bayer Leverkusen II | 30 | (1) |
2014– | SV Sandhausen | 55 | (0) |
National team‡ | |||
2009–2010 | Germany U16[1] | 7 | (0) |
2010–2011 | Germany U17[2] | 6 | (0) |
2012–2015 | Albania U21 | 1 | (0) |
2015– | Kosovo | 8 | (0) |
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 13:04, 20 December 2016 (UTC). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 03:53, 16 June 2016 (UTC) |
Leart Paqarada (born 8 October 1994) is a German-born Kosovo Albanian footballer who plays as a left-back for SV Sandhausen in the 2. Bundesliga.[3] He was born in Germany and is of Albanian ethnicity. He played for German youth national teams and Albania U21, before switching to the Kosovo national football team.[4]
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.[5]
International
In 2012, Paqarada became an Albanian citizen and played a match with the Albania national under-21 football team. On 1 October 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 U21s.[6] He switched again to the Kosovo national team and has been the starting left-back.
References
- ↑ "U 16-Junioren: Leart Paqarada" [U 16-juniors: Leart Paqarada] (in German). DFB. Retrieved 1 March 2015.
- ↑ "U 17-Junioren: Leart Paqarada" [U 17-juniors: Leart Paqarada] (in German). DFB. Retrieved 1 March 2015.
- ↑ "Germany - L. Paqarada - Profile with news, career statistics and history - Soccerway". soccerway.com. Retrieved 2014-09-15.
- ↑ "Football MATCH: 10.10.2015 Kosovo v Equatorial Guinea". 10 October 2015. Retrieved 16 June 2016.
- ↑ "Sandhausen vs. Kaiserslautern - 10 August 2014 - Soccerway". soccerway.com. Retrieved 2014-09-15.
- ↑ U-21 ben gati miqesoren kunder Rumanise