Mehmet Hetemaj
Hetemaj with SJK in 2018. | |||||||||||||
Personal information | |||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 8 December 1987 | ||||||||||||
Place of birth | Skenderaj, 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 | 17 | (0) | ||||||||||
2015– | SJK | 37 | (2) | ||||||||||
National team‡ | |||||||||||||
–2009 | Finland U21 | 18 | (2) | ||||||||||
2009– | Finland | 6 | (1) | ||||||||||
2014 | Kosovo | 1 | (0) | ||||||||||
Honours
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* 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 7 June 2017 |
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 both Finland national team and Kosovo national football team, but now he is no longer eligible to play for the latter. He started his football career in HJK youth team.
Club career
HJK Helsinki
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.
Panionios
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.
AlbinoLeffe
In June 2010 AlbinoLeffe announced to have completed a bid to sign the player on a permanent basis from Panionios.[1][2] He signed a 4-year contract. In July 2012 he was loaned out to Serie B outfit Reggina Calcio.[3] The loan contract with Reggina ended after the 2012/13 season and Hetemaj returned to AlbinoLeffe.[4] In January 2014 it was announced that Hetemaj had signed a loan contract with a Finnish Premier League team Honka.[5][6]
Monza
International career
Finland Under-21
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.[8]
Finland
Hetemaj made his senior debut for Finland against Japan in February 2009. After a convincing season in AlbinoLeffe he was called up again on 21 May 2010 for a match against Estonia.
Kosovo
Hetemaj made his senior debut for Kosovo in a 6–1 loss against Turkey in May 2014, a friendly match.[9] However, he lost his eligible to switch for Kosovo in competitive match after accepting the call-up from Finland in 2016, after Kosovo became a member of UEFA and FIFA.[10]
Personal life
Of Kosovar Albanian, Hetemaj was born in Srbica, SFR Yugoslavia, and moved to Finland in 1992. His family first arrived at Oulu but they moved to Helsinki, looking for a milder climate, due to his father, Miftar, having asthma. He has an older brother, the footballer Përparim, and two sisters, Fatlume and Fatbardhe.[11]
Honours
Club
- HJK Helsinki
Career statistics
Club
Club | Season | Division | League | Domestic Cups | Europe | Total | ||||
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Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | |||
Klubi-04 | ||||||||||
2005 | Kakkonen | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 0 | |
2006 | Ykkönen | 13 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 2 | |
Klubi-04 Total | 29 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 2 | ||
HJK Helsinki | ||||||||||
2006 | Veikkausliiga | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | |
2007 | Veikkausliiga | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 1 | |
HJK Total | 17 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 1 | ||
Viikingit | ||||||||||
2007 | Veikkausliiga | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | |
Viikingit Total | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | ||
Panionios | ||||||||||
2007–08 | Superleague | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | |
Panionios Total | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | ||
Thrasyvoulos | ||||||||||
2008–09 | Superleague | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | |
Thrasyvoulos Total | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | ||
AlbinoLeffe | ||||||||||
2009–10 | Serie B | 23 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 1 | |
2010–11 | Serie B | 36 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 38 | 0 | |
2011–12 | Serie B | 35 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 37 | 0 | |
AlbinoLeffe Total | 94 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 99 | 1 | ||
Reggina | ||||||||||
2012–13 | Serie B | 29 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 31 | 0 | |
Reggina Total | 29 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 31 | 0 | ||
AlbinoLeffe | ||||||||||
2013–14 | Lega Pro | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | |
AlbinoLeffe Total | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | ||
Honka | ||||||||||
2014 | Veikkausliiga | 16 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 21 | 2 | |
Honka Total | 16 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 21 | 2 | ||
Monza | ||||||||||
2014–15 | Lega Pro | 17 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 0 | |
Monza Total | 17 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 0 | ||
SJK | ||||||||||
2015 | Veikkausliiga | 31 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 37 | 2 | |
2016 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 0 | ||
SJK Total | 37 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 49 | 2 | ||
Career Total | 267 | 7 | 20 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 293 | 7 | ||
International
- As of 7 June 2017[14]
Finland national team | ||
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Year | Apps | Goals |
2009 | 1 | 0 |
2010 | 1 | 0 |
2011 | 0 | 0 |
2012 | 0 | 0 |
2013 | 0 | 0 |
2014 | 1 | 0 |
2015 | 0 | 0 |
2016 | 2 | 0 |
2017 | 1 | 1 |
Total | 6 | 1 |
International goals
- Scores and results list Finland's goal tally first.[13]
No | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
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1. | 7 June 2017 | Veritas Stadion, Turku, Finland | 1–0 | 1–1 | Friendly |
References
- ↑ "UFFICIALE: AlbinoLeffe, acquistato Mehmet Hetemaj dal Panionios" (in Italian). TuttoMercatoWeb. 2010-06-28. Retrieved 2010-06-28.
- ↑ "Mehmet Hetemaj acquistato a titolo definitivo dal Panionios FC" (Press release) (in Italian). U.C. AlbinoLeffe. 28 June 2010. Retrieved 2 July 2010.
- ↑ "Mehmet Hetemaj vaihtaa seuraa". mtv3.fi (in Finnish). 7 July 2012. Retrieved 9 August 2012.
- ↑ "Mehmet Hetemaj'n siirto jumissa". iltasanomat.fi (in Finnish). 9 August 2013. Retrieved 28 August 2013.
- ↑ "Hongan tuore vahvistus: "Maajoukkuetta on ollut ikävä"" (in Finnish). Iltalehti. 2014-01-08. Retrieved 2014-01-18.
- ↑ "Mehmet Hetemaj passa a titolo temporaneo al Honka" (Press release) (in Italian). U.C. AlbinoLeffe. 8 January 2014. Retrieved 9 June 2017.
- ↑ "Shefki Kuqi: "Mehu lähtee"" (in Finnish). Iltalehti. 2014-07-09. Retrieved 2014-12-22.
- ↑ "Finland squad". Uefa.com. 2010-09-17. Retrieved 2010-09-22.
- ↑ http://www.tff.org/default.aspx?pageID=471&ftxtID=20671
- ↑ "Change of association to the Football Federation of Kosovo". FIFA. 7 September 2016. Retrieved 9 June 2017.
- ↑ "Perhepoika ja suuri suu" (in Finnish). Ylioppilaslehti. 11 May 2007. Retrieved 1 February 2015.
- ↑ http://www.national-football-teams.com/player/29772/Jukka_Raitala.html
- 1 2 https://int.soccerway.com/players/mehmet-hetemaj/8488/
- ↑ http://www.national-football-teams.com/player/30459/Mehmet_Hetemaj.html
External links
- Mehmet Hetemaj at U.C. AlbinoLeffe (in Italian)
- Mehmet Hetemaj at National-Football-Teams.com
- Mehmet Hetemaj at Soccerbase
- Mehmet Hetemaj at Soccerway
- Profie at Welt Fussball (in German)