Anel Raskaj
Anel Raskaj with Halmstad in 2010
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Anel Raskaj | ||
| Date of birth | 19 August 1989 | ||
| Place of birth | Prizren,SFR Yugoslavia | ||
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||
| Playing position | Midfielder | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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AFC Eskilstuna | ||
| Number | 21 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| KF Liria | |||
| 2003 | IF Leikin | ||
| 2003–2006 | Halmstads BK | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2007–2011 | Halmstads BK | 112 | (2) |
| 2012–2016 | Sandnes Ulf | 131 | (5) |
| 2017– | AFC Eskilstuna | 1 | (0) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 2009– | Kosovo | 4 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 8 April 2017. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 7 September 2014 |
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Anel Raskaj (born 19 August 1989) is a Kosovo Albanian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Swedish club AFC Eskilstuna.
Anel Raskaj started to play football for KF Liria, in Prizren, SFR Yugoslavia. At the age of 14 he moved with is his family to Halmstad in Sweden, where he continued his football career in IF Leikin, however only for a few months before leaving for local rivals Halmstads BK. Although he had not been selected as a trainee, a youth team player training with the senior squad, in 2007 he was put on the bench home against IFK Göteborg in Allsvenskan and in the following away game against Kalmar FF he made his debut, replacing Martin Fribrock, just days following his 18th birthday.
Prior to the 2008 season. He was raised from the youth team to become a full member of the senior squad, mainly being used as left winger. In 2009 Raskaj and Michael Görlitz was the only players to have played in all league games of the season, 30 matches in total, he also represented the club in all the other 17 games of the year, 2 cup and 15 friendly matches, thus being the only player that had played in all the clubs matches in that year. Anel Raskaj scored his first league goal in 2009 against Kalmar FF.
The 2010 season saw Janne Andersson leave as Halmstads BK manager and being replaced by Lars Jacobsson, the former assistant manager. Lars continued with Janne's 4-5-1 system, Raskaj played most of his matches on the right side of the midfield, few times being used as left winger, scoring his second goal early in the season in Halmstad's 4-0 win over Åtvidabergs FF. The 2011 season started as the one before, Lars Jacobsson left the club and be replaced by Spanish Josep Clotet Ruiz, along with the new manager came a number of Spanish midfielders, which saw Anel moved from the starting lineup to the bench in the beginning of the league season, against many people's expectations. In the mid of the 2011 season the Spanish players left as their loan ended with the club and Clotet Ruiz was sacked following a long serie of poor results, under new manager Jens Gustafsson Raskaj returned to the starting lineup, he was however unable to help Halmstad from bein relegated by the end of the season.
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