Përparim Hetemaj
Hetemaj in 2015
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Përparim Hetemaj | ||
| Date of birth | 12 December 1986 | ||
| Place of birth | Skenderaj, Kosovo, SFR Yugoslavia | ||
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||
| Playing position | Midfielder | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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Chievo | ||
| Number | 56 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1993–2003 | HJK | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2004–2006 | HJK | 33 | (1) |
| 2004 | → Klubi-04 (loan) | 21 | (6) |
| 2006–2009 | AEK Athens | 25 | (0) |
| 2008 | → Apollon Kalamarias (loan) | 10 | (1) |
| 2009–2010 | Twente | 0 | (0) |
| 2010–2011 | Brescia | 34 | (2) |
| 2011– | Chievo | 170 | (1) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 2004–2005 | Finland U-19 | 4 | (2) |
| 2005–2009 | Finland U-21 | 16 | (3) |
| 2009– | Finland | 44 | (4) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 12 February 2017. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 9 August 2016 |
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Përparim Hetemaj (born 12 December 1986) is a Finnish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Italian club Chievo and the Finnish national team. Born in Kosovo, Hetemaj arrived in Finland when he was 6 years old and played for HJK Helsinki's youth teams; signing a professional contract in 2004 at age 17. He joined Greek side AEK Athens in 2006, and moved to Twente in 2009. Subsequently, in 2010, he was signed by Brescia and was transferred to Chievo in 2011.
Hetemaj made his international debut for Finland in February 2009, at the age of 22.
Of Albanian ethnicity, Hetemaj was born in Srbica, Yugoslavia (now Kosovo), and moved to Finland in 1992. His family first arrived at Oulu but they moved to Helsinki due to his father, Miftar, having asthma. He has a younger brother, the footballer Mehmet, and two sisters, Fatlume and Fatbardhe. In 2004, he acquired Finnish citizenship.
He started his career at the youth academy of HJK Helsinki, and in 2004 played for its second team, Klubi-04, in 26 Ykkönen—the second division of Finnish football—matches, in which he scored six goals. He played 26 matches and scored a goal in the 2005–06 season of Veikkausliiga—the premier division of Finnish football. After playing seven matches for HJK during the 2006–07, he was sold to AEK Athens for a fee of €450.000.
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