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 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

  1. ↑ "U 16-Junioren: Leart Paqarada" [U 16-juniors: Leart Paqarada] (in German). DFB. Retrieved 1 March 2015.
  2. ↑ "U 17-Junioren: Leart Paqarada" [U 17-juniors: Leart Paqarada] (in German). DFB. Retrieved 1 March 2015.
  3. ↑ "Germany - L. Paqarada - Profile with news, career statistics and history - Soccerway". soccerway.com. Retrieved 2014-09-15.
  4. ↑ "Football MATCH: 10.10.2015 Kosovo v Equatorial Guinea". 10 October 2015. Retrieved 16 June 2016.
  5. ↑ "Sandhausen vs. Kaiserslautern - 10 August 2014 - Soccerway". soccerway.com. Retrieved 2014-09-15.
  6. ↑ U-21 ben gati miqesoren kunder Rumanise
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