Imran Bunjaku
Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 18 October 1992 | ||
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 professional footballer who plays as a midfielder.[1][2] Born in Switzerland, he plays for the Kosovo national team.
Club career
[edit]Before the 2021–22 season, he returned to Grasshoppers after six-and-a-half seasons at Schaffhausen. On 30 August 2021, he moved to Aarau on 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 in Slovenia.[5]
He officially gained Albanian citizenship on 26 August 2011 along with his Grasshopper teammate Mërgim Brahimi, in order to compete in the UEFA Under-21 Championship qualifiers.[6][7]
Since 2014 Bunjaku also received call-up from Kosovo[8] and he made his debut for Kosovo in a May 2014 friendly match against Senegal and 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]- ^ UEFA Profile
- ^ Footballdatabase profile
- ^ "BUNJAKU ON LOAN TO FC AARAU RIBEIRO LEAVES GC". Grasshoppers. 30 August 2021. Retrieved 19 October 2021.
- ^ "Imran Bunjaku hat seinen Vertrag beim FC Aarau verlängert". nau.ch. 2022-06-14. Retrieved 2022-07-15.
- ^ "Bushati merr 10 talentë në Slloveni" (in Albanian). Panorama Sport. 2011-03-16. Archived from the original on 2011-10-04. Retrieved 2011-05-06.
- ^ "Brahimi e Bunjaku bëhen "shqiptarë"" (in Albanian). Koha. 2011-08-27. Retrieved 2011-08-27.
- ^ "Brahimi e Bunjaku bëhen "shqiptarë"" (in Albanian). RTV 21. 2011-08-27. Archived from the original on 2012-03-18. Retrieved 2011-08-27.
- ^ "Më 31 gusht nis grumbullimi i Përfaqësueses" (in Albanian). Football Federation of Kosovo. 22 August 2015. Retrieved 11 October 2016.
- ^ "Player Database". eu-football.info. Retrieved 2019-01-27.
External links
[edit]- Imran Bunjaku at National-Football-Teams.com
- Imran Bunjaku at Soccerway
- 1992 births
- Living people
- Footballers from Zürich
- Kosovo Albanians
- Swiss people of Kosovan descent
- Swiss people of Albanian descent
- Sportspeople of Albanian descent
- Men's association football midfielders
- Kosovan men's footballers
- Kosovo men's international footballers
- Albanian men's footballers
- Albania men's youth international footballers
- Swiss men's footballers
- Grasshopper Club Zurich players
- FC Schaffhausen players
- FC Aarau players
- Swiss Super League players
- Swiss Challenge League players
- Kosovan expatriate men's footballers
- Kosovan expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland
- Albanian expatriate men's footballers
- Albanian expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland
- Expatriate men's footballers in Switzerland