Valon Behrami
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Behrami with Switzerland in 2015
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Valon Behrami | ||
| Date of birth | 19 April 1985 | ||
| Place of birth | Titova Mitrovica, Yugoslavia | ||
| Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||
| Playing position | Midfielder | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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Watford | ||
| Number | 11 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1993–1997 | Stabio | ||
| 1997–2000 | Chiasso | ||
| 2000–2002 | Lugano | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2002–2003 | Lugano | 2 | (0) |
| 2003–2005 | Genoa | 24 | (0) |
| 2004–2005 | → Verona (loan) | 32 | (3) |
| 2005–2008 | Lazio | 65 | (4) |
| 2008–2011 | West Ham United | 58 | (4) |
| 2011–2012 | Fiorentina | 48 | (0) |
| 2012–2014 | Napoli | 54 | (0) |
| 2014–2015 | Hamburger SV | 22 | (0) |
| 2015– | Watford | 39 | (0) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 2005– | Switzerland | 73 | (2) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 15:17, 28 January 2017 (UTC). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 13 November 2016 |
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Valon Behrami (born 19 April 1985) is a Swiss professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for English club Watford. His previous clubs include Stabio, Chiasso, Lugano, Genoa, Verona, Lazio, West Ham United, Fiorentina, and Napoli.
Behrami has been capped over 60 times at international level by the Switzerland national team, playing at three World Cups and Euro 2008 since his debut in 2005.
Behrami was born to Albanian parents in Titova Mitrovica, SFR Yugoslavia. When he was five, his parents both lost their jobs; his mother Halime as a secretary and his father Ragip as a manager of a plastics company. As a result, Behrami along with his parents and older sister Valentina moved to Stabio, a village in Ticino, the Italian-speaking canton of Switzerland. Behrami's mother described him as energetic: "As a child, running was Valon's favourite pastime – he just never got tired. Even now, he can hardly sit still for a second. He always needs a ball at his feet."
Behrami started out playing football with Swiss club sides FC Stabio, FC Chiasso and FC Lugano. After a number of impressive appearances with Lugano, he was signed by Italian team Genoa in the 2003–04 season, and played for them in the Serie B championship. In January 2004 he joined Udinese along with Rodrigue Boisfer in exchange for Mohammed Gargo and Vittorio Micolucci, in flopped transfer price in co-ownership deal to create "paper" profit.
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