Valon Behrami

Valon Behrami 2008

Biography

1990, when he was five years old, Valon Behrami came with his family from the former Yugoslavia to Switzerland. He grew up in Stabio, a village in the Italian-speaking Switzerland, on; He was naturalized in 2002. Behramis first interest was not for the football, but athletics irritated him. In the cross-country race he won four regional titles.

Career

Clubs

As a teenager, Behrami became interested only after 13 years of football. First, he played for FC Stabio before moving to the adjacent FC Chiasso. There he played for three years. In this time of FC Lugano was, at that time the most famous club in the canton of Ticino, noticed him and signed him. Since the club was forced to declare bankruptcy, be Behrami was looking for a new club. In Switzerland, FC Basel and Grasshoppers Zurich interested in him. As the supply of Grasshoppers was too bad, this club was out of the question for him. When the FC Basel but reported Behrami had already signed with the Italian club Genoa. Through his style of play, he also made clubs from Serie A 's attention.

After a year at the Genoa Behrami went to Hellas Verona, in the 2004/05 season he was voted the best player of the series B and drew attention to himself by his performance top clubs such as Lazio, Juventus, Tottenham Hotspur and Inter Milan. The race for Behrami then made Lazio, which transferred a total of six million euros to Verona and Genoa, as he was one of two clubs in equal parts.

During the summer break of 2008 Behrami moved to the English Premier League club West Ham United. After two and a half years of ups and downs, he returned in January 2011 returned to Italy and with that came the wish of his family to that probably not felt in England. When ACF Fiorentina, he signed a contract until 2015, but then changed in July 2012 with a five-year contract for SSC Napoli. In his first season Valon Behrami convinced immediately as Abräumer front of the defense.

National

Valon Behrami was on 8 October 2005 his international debut for Switzerland in the qualifying match for the 2006 World Cup against France (1-1). He scored his first international goal on 12 Nov. 2005, three minutes after coming off the bench against the Turkish national team. During the World Cup 2006, Behrami injured during training. For him, the World Cup was over practically and an insert did not seem possible. In the match against South Korea, he was but a substitute in the final stage for six minutes.

In the 2008 European Football Championship in Austria and Switzerland, he was in the squad of Switzerland as well as in the Football World Cup 2010 in South Africa. There he received in his first game against Chile a sending off.