Emir Bajrami
Bajrami in the service of FC Twente (2010)
Emir Bajrami ( born March 7, 1988 in Pristina ) is a Swedish football player. The offensive player with the IF Elfsborg won the Swedish championship in 2006, debuted in 2010 in the Swedish national team.
Career
Career Start and breakthrough in Sweden
Born in Kosovo Bajrami came with his family to Sweden in 1992. There he grew up in Köpings and started at the local club Köpings FF playing football. For the club he made his debut in 2005 in the men's team, which contested the Division 3 Västra Svealand fourth-rate.
In 2006, Bajrami to IF Elfsborg in the Allsvenskan. The perspective players came in his first season to a short-term use and was therefore unable to be celebrated as Swedish champion at the end of the 2006. In his second season he was often used, however, was only four of his 14 games in the season starting. In addition, he was able to gain experience in European competition when he landed as a substitute use time in several games.
With increasing use of time in the Elite Series in the 2007 he also made the Swedish Under-21 coach Tommy Söderberg attention to himself and came on 12 October 2007 for his debut in the junior national team when he at the 2:3 defeat to the Irish Youth selection came on in the 64th minute for the game Christer Youssef. In his second four days later, a 5-1 drubbing of the Belgian youth team, he was wearing for the first time into the top scorer of the team. In the following years, he established himself in the squad and was regularly used.
Over the 2008 to Bajrami won a regular place at IFE. On the first two match days he sat at start of the game still on the bench, he was put on Matchday coach Magnus Haglund 's 1-1 draw at Malmö FF in the starting lineup and thanked in the 19th minute with his first goal of the season game. Thus he was able to win a place in the starting eleven and came to the end of the season in 28 of 30 games this season for use. After Bajrami was able to maintain his place in the club team at the start of the following season, end of May 2009 nominated him the team coach Tommy Söderberg and Jörgen Lennartsson on the side of his club colleagues Denni Avdić for the U- 21 European Championship Finals in their own country. There Bajrami came in all three group matches are used. The semi-final in which Sweden was eliminated, he missed, because he had seen a total of two yellow cards in the previous tournament games and was therefore blocked.
National debut and moving abroad
By the end of the season 2009 Bajrami convinced as a regular in the Allsvenskan, so that the new coach Erik Hamrén nominated him for the kick-off matches in January 2010. On 20 January, he was in the 1-0 victory over the national team of Oman with a goal by Anders Svensson on the side of another debutant Guillermo Molins, Tom Söderberg and Daniel Larsson in the starting lineup until replaced him in the 64 minutes Alexander Farnerud. In the following season he defended his place at the club and had a good performance. While on one hand, established himself in the circle of the national team, this also other European clubs did not go unnoticed and in the summer of 2010 gave the Dutch champions FC Twente Enschede known to have committed Bajrami.
In the Eredivisie Bajrami was early in the season alongside Bryan Ruiz, Wout Brama, Luuk de Jong and Theo Janssen as a regular player on the court. In September, however, he fell in training with his compatriot Rasmus Bengtsson each other, the injured him in a tackle. Then he fell out until after the winter break. In the second half, he returned to the football field back, but did not go much beyond the role of the complement player and was mainly a substitute. In the final of the KNVB Cup Ajax Amsterdam shortly before the season ends coach Michel Preud'homme joined him with the score at 2-2 in the extension of one, thanks to a goal from fellow substitute Marc Janko he won his first title abroad. Even in a direct duel for the title against the same opponents on the final day a week later he came on, but the game was lost with a 1-3 defeat and thus missed the club as a runner-up the double. Although he did not belong to the tribe at club side, he had established himself in the national squad and played in a group with his choice of Dutch adopted country to qualify for the European Championship finals in 2012.
Under the new coach Co Adriaanse Bajrami moved during the following season in the starting lineup. While he stated with the club until the fall in the front third of the table, managed by a 3-2 win in October 2011 in a direct duel with the already fixed as group winners Dutch national team as best runners- direct qualification for the finals. Although he was held back until the end of the season again and again from different injuries, so that he had played only 22 of the 34 season games, coach Erik Hamrén called him shortly before the end of the season in its full 23 player squad for the European Championship finals. For the 2012/13 season Bajrami was loaned by the Dutch to the AS Monaco. The team from the Principality of Monaco plays in the Ligue 2 in neighboring France.
2013 moved to the Greek first division club Panathinaikos Athens Bajrami.
Achievements
- Dutch Cup winner with FC Twente: 2011
- Dutch runners-up: 2011