Fatmire Alushi

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Fatmire Alushi
File:Fatmire Bajramaj 2013 1.jpg
Fatmire Alushi in 2013
Personal information
Full name Fatmire Lira Alushi
Date of birth (1988-04-01) 1 April 1988 (age 36)
Place of birth Istog, SFR Yugoslavia
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Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team
 Paris Saint-Germain
Number 19
Youth career
1993–1998 DJK/VfL Giesenkirchen
1998–2004 FSC Mönchengladbach
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2004–2009 FCR 2001 Duisburg 84 (30)
2009–2011 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam 40 (29)
2011–2014 1. FFC Frankfurt 27 (10)
2014– Paris Saint-Germain 14 (5)
International career‡
2003 Germany U15 2 (0)
2004 Germany U17 7 (0)
2005–2006 Germany U19 16 (1)
2005– Germany 79 (18)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 10:53, 8 June 2015 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 17:06, 11 March 2015 (UTC)[1]

Fatmire "Lira" Alushi (née Bajramaj; born 1 April 1988), is a German footballer. She plays as an attacking midfielder for Paris Saint-Germain in the Division 1 Féminine and the German national team. She placed third in 2010 FIFA Ballon d'Or competition, an annual award given to the world's best player.

Career

Club

Alushi began her career at DJK/VfL Giesenkirchen. From 1997 to 2004 she played for FSC Mönchengladbach, before moving to the Bundesliga side and joining FCR 2001 Duisburg.[2][3] She made her Bundesliga debut in September 2004 for the club and scored her first goal one month later. Alushi immediately became a regular starter for Duisburg. She was runner-up with Duisburg for four seasons in a row from 2005 to 2008. During the 2008–09 season, Alushi won the UEFA Women's Champions League. She also claimed the 2009 German Cup title, where she scored in the final.

After five seasons at Duisburg, Alushi moved to league rivals 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam for the 2009–10 season.[4] At her new club, she won the Bundesliga title in 2010 and 2011. In the 2009–10 season, Potsdam also claimed the inaugural UEFA Women's Champions League title, with Bajramaj scoring during the penalty shoot-out in the final.[5] One year later, Potsdam again made it to the final, but lost against Olympique Lyonnais.

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Alushi with PSG during a Champions League semifinal match against Wolfsburg.

Alushi came in third place for the 2010 FIFA Ballon d'Or award. She has announced to move to 1. FFC Frankfurt for the 2011–12 season. The transfer is the most expensive in women's Bundesliga history.[6]

In 2014 she transferred to Paris.[7]

International

Alushi made her debut for Germany’s senior national team in October 2005 against Scotland. One year later, she won 2006 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship at junior level.[1] At the 2006 FIFA U-20 Women's World Championship, the German team was eliminated in the quarter-finals. Alushi started in all four of the team's matches and scored three goals during the tournament.[8]

She won her first major international title at the 2007 FIFA Women’s World Cup. She was a reserve player for Germany, appearing in four games, including the tournament's final, in which she won the corner that let to Germany's second goal. One year later, Alushi claimed bronze with Germany at the 2008 Summer Olympics. She was brought on after 62 minutes in the third-place play-off and scored both goals in Germany's 2–0 win over Japan. In 2009, Alushi won her first European trophy at the 2009 European Championship, where Germany claimed its seventh title. She was also called up for Germany's 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup squad.[1]

International goals

Scores and results list Germany's goal tally first:

Source:[1]

Personal life

File:Fatmire Bajramaj.jpg
Alushi at practice with Potsdam in 2009.

Alushi's parents Ismet and Ganimete, who are Kosovar-Albanians, moved their family from Istog, Kosovo to Germany in 1993.[9] In 2007, she began a relationship with the Kosovo-Albanian actor and model Eshref Durmishi.[10] In October 2009, she published her autobiography Mein Tor ins Leben – Vom Flüchtling zur Weltmeisterin (My Gate [wordplay: German "Tor" translates to both "Goal"/"Gate"] into Life – From Refugee to World Champion).[11] In June 2011 she began dating fellow footballer Enis Alushi. Both their fathers are working together as police officers in Kosovo.[12] The couple announced its engagement the following year. Shortly after, in September 2012 both suffered anterior cruciate ligament injuries in matches within 72 hours of each other.[13] The couple got married in December 2013.[14] Following the 2015 UEFA Women's Champions League Final, she announced that she was pregnant and would be forced to miss the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup in Canada. She stated that she expected to get back to the pitch eventually but that "there are things in life that are simply more important than football".[15]

Honours

Club

FCR 2001 Duisburg
Turbine Potsdam
FFC Frankfurt

International

Individual

References

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  14. ↑ http://www.albinfo.ch/sq/e-diaspora/bajramaj-prej-dje-fatmire-alushi
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