

Towards the end of the match, he scored the second goal in Basel's 2–0 victory. He made his first team debut in the third qualifying round of the 2010–11 UEFA Champions League in the away match against Debrecen in the Szusza Ferenc Stadium. Since the beginning of the 2010–11 season, Xhaka played for the Basel first team. " Xherdan Shaqiri is the best talent in Switzerland.after Granit Xhaka." The Swiss national football coach, Ottmar Hitzfeld, has dubbed him the 'young Schweinsteiger.' Basel įormer Basel coach Thorsten Fink once said. Between 20, he played 37 games for the U-21 team, scoring eleven goals. He played for various Basel youth teams and since 2008 has been a member of the U-21 squad. Xhaka started his youth football with Concordia Basel and moved to Basel in 2002. The family moved from Podujevo to Basel, Switzerland that year where Granit and his older brother Taulant Xhaka were born. Granit Xhaka was born on 27 September 1992 in the city of Basel, Switzerland, into an ethnic Albanian family from Podujevo, Kosovo, then part of the FR Yugoslavia. He made his senior debut in 2011 and has won over 100 caps, representing the nation at the FIFA World Cup in 20, and the UEFA European Championship in 20. Xhaka was part of the Swiss team that won the 2009 FIFA U-17 World Cup. He completed a high-profile transfer to Arsenal in May 2016 for a fee in the region of £30 million. He was made captain of Borussia Mönchengladbach in 2015 at the age of 22, leading the team to UEFA Champions' League qualification for a second successive season. He then moved to Bundesliga team Borussia Mönchengladbach in 2012, developing a reputation as a technically gifted player and natural leader alongside criticism for his temperament. Xhaka began his career at hometown club Basel, winning the Swiss Super League in each of his first two seasons.
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Granit Xhaka (born 27 September 1992) is a Swiss professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Premier League club Arsenal and captains the Switzerland national team. ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 12 June 2022 *Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 18:43, 4 September 2022 (UTC)
