Freddie Veseli
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| Full name | Frédéric Shtjefan Veseli | |||||||||||
| Date of birth | 20 November 1992 | |||||||||||
| Place of birth | Renens, Switzerland | |||||||||||
| Height | 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in) | |||||||||||
| Playing position | Defender | |||||||||||
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Current team
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Empoli | |||||||||||
| Number | 13 | |||||||||||
| Youth career | ||||||||||||
| 2003–2005 | Renens | |||||||||||
| 2005–2008 | Lausanne-Sport | |||||||||||
| 2008–2010 | Manchester City | |||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||
| 2010–2012 | Manchester City | 0 | (0) | |||||||||
| 2012–2013 | Manchester United | 0 | (0) | |||||||||
| 2013–2015 | Ipswich Town | 0 | (0) | |||||||||
| 2014 | → Bury (loan) | 18 | (0) | |||||||||
| 2014 | → Port Vale (loan) | 15 | (0) | |||||||||
| 2015 | Port Vale | 22 | (1) | |||||||||
| 2015–2016 | Lugano | 33 | (0) | |||||||||
| 2016– | Empoli | 17 | (0) | |||||||||
| National team‡ | ||||||||||||
| 2007 | Switzerland U15 | 4 | (0) | |||||||||
| 2007–2008 | Switzerland U16 | 8 | (0) | |||||||||
| 2008–2009 | Switzerland U17 | 16 | (0) | |||||||||
| 2009–2010 | Switzerland U18 | 12 | (0) | |||||||||
| 2010–2011 | Switzerland U19 | 9 | (0) | |||||||||
| 2011–2012 | Switzerland U20 | 7 | (1) | |||||||||
| 2012 | Switzerland U21 | 1 | (0) | |||||||||
| 2015– | Albania | 7 | (0) | |||||||||
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Honours
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| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 18:42, 15 May 2017 (UTC). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 28 March 2017 |
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Frédéric Shtjefan Veseli (born 20 November 1992) is an Albanian professional footballer who plays as a defender for Italian Serie A side Empoli and the Albania national team.
Born in Renens, he began his youth career with local club FC Renens before joining Lausanne-Sport in 2005. In 2008, he was signed by English club Manchester City, before joining Manchester United in January 2012. Having failed to break into the first team, he was released in July 2013 and joined Ipswich Town, who allowed him to go on loan to Bury in the second half of the 2013–14 season. He was loaned out to Port Vale for the first half of the 2014–15 season, before joining permanently in January 2015. He returned to Switzerland in July 2015 to play for Lugano, before he signed with Italian side Empoli in August 2016.
He represented Switzerland at every level of youth football, and captained the Switzerland under-17s to victory in the 2009 FIFA U-17 World Cup. After refusing call-ups from Kosovo, in November 2015 he accepted the Albanian national team's invitation to continue his international career, and was named in the squad for UEFA Euro 2016.
Veseli started his football career with Renens. In 2005, he joined Lausanne-Sport, where he remained until 2008, when he moved to England to join Manchester City's Elite Development Squad. He would spend the next four seasons playing primarily for the reserve team. During the 2010–11 season, manager Roberto Mancini named Veseli on the bench for the first team in a Third Round League Cup match against West Bromwich Albion on 22 September. Prior to the 2011–12 season, Veseli featured prominently at the 2011 World Football Challenge but did not make any first-team appearance that year.
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