Mehmet Hetemaj
 |
||||||||||||
| Personal information | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 8 December 1987 | |||||||||||
| Place of birth | Srbica, SFR Yugoslavia | |||||||||||
| Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) | |||||||||||
| Playing position | Centre-back, Defensive midfielder | |||||||||||
| Club information | ||||||||||||
|
Current team
|
SJK | |||||||||||
| Number | 58 | |||||||||||
| Youth career | ||||||||||||
| 1996–2006 | HJK | |||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||
| 2005–2007 | HJK | 17 | (1) | |||||||||
| 2007 | → Viikingit (loan) | 10 | (0) | |||||||||
| 2008–2010 | Panionios | 11 | (0) | |||||||||
| 2009 | → Thrasyvoulos (loan) | 9 | (0) | |||||||||
| 2009–2010 | → AlbinoLeffe (loan) | 23 | (1) | |||||||||
| 2010–2014 | AlbinoLeffe | 76 | (0) | |||||||||
| 2012–2013 | → Reggina (loan) | 29 | (0) | |||||||||
| 2014 | → Honka (loan) | 16 | (1) | |||||||||
| 2014 | → Monza (loan) | 17 | (0) | |||||||||
| 2015– | SJK | 37 | (2) | |||||||||
| National team‡ | ||||||||||||
| –2009 | Finland U21 | 18 | (2) | |||||||||
| 2009– | Finland | 5 | (0) | |||||||||
| 2014– | Kosovo | 1 | (0) | |||||||||
|
Honours
|
||||||||||||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 25 July 2016. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 13 January 2016 |
||||||||||||
Mehmet Hetemaj (born 8 December 1987), is a naturalized Finnish professional football centre-back and defensive midfielder of Kosovar Albanian descent who plays for Finnish Veikkausliiga side SJK. He has represented Finland national team, before switching to the Kosovo national football team after it was newly established. He started his football career in HJK youth team.
Hetemaj started his career in Finland in HJK Helsinki where he made 17 appearances between 2006 and 2007. During 2007 season he was loaned to Viikingit for 9 matches.
In 2008, he agreed a move to Greek club Panionios F.C.. In June 2009 he was loaned out to Serie B outfit AlbinoLeffe, where he established himself as a regular.
In June 2010 AlbinoLeffe announced to have completed a bid to sign the player on a permanent basis from Panionios. He signed a 4-year contract. In July 2012 he was loaned out to Serie B outfit Reggina Calcio. The loan contract with Reggina ended after the 2012/13 season and Hetemaj returned to AlbinoLeffe. In January 2014 it was announced that Hetemaj had signed a loan contract until the end of August 2014 with a Finnish Premier League team Honka. in July 2014 before Hetemaj´s loan contract with Honka had ended AlbinoLeffe loaned Hetemaj to Monza.
Hetemaj, along with his older brother Përparim Hetemaj, was called up to represent Finland U-21 at the 2009 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship.
...
Wikipedia