Fanol Perdedaj

Fanol Perdedaj

Perdedaj with Hertha in 2011.
Personal information
Full name	Fanol Perdedaj
Date of birth	(1991-07-16) 16 July 1991
Place of birth	Gjakova, SFR Yugoslavia
Height
Position(s)	Defensive midfielder
Team information
Current team	FSV Frankfurt
Number	8
Youth career
	1. FC Wilmersdorf
2002–2009	Hertha BSC
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2009–2014	Hertha BSC II	51	(3)
2009–2014	Hertha BSC	24	(0)
2012–2013	→ Lyngby BK (loan)	22	(0)
2014–2015	FC Energie Cottbus	48	(0)
2015–	FSV Frankfurt	30	(3)
International career‡
2009–2010	Germany U19	5	(0)
2010–2014	Germany U21	1	(0)
2014–	Kosovo	5	(0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 05:01, 19 May 2016 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 15 March 2014

Fanol Perdedaj (born 16 July 1991) is a Kosovar footballer who plays for FSV Frankfurt. He was raised in Germany, and represented their youth football teams, before switching to the Kosovo NT.

Career

Youth

Perdedaj began his career for TSV Lichtenberg, and later he came to 1. FC Wilmersdorf. On July 2002, he transferred to the junior section of Hertha BSC.

Club

In the 2009–10 pre-season, he was called to the professional squad by his coach Lucien Favre. However, he was only used for the second team in the Regionalliga Nord and he was on the bench repeatedly for the first team.

Due to the injuries of Fabian Lustenberger and Dárdai, Perdedaj debuted for the first team on 14 August 2010 in the first round match of DFB-Pokal against SC Pfullendorf, where they won 2–0.

Six days later, Perdedaj played for his first time in a match of the 2. Bundesliga where they won against Rot-Weiß Oberhausen 3–2. Over the course of that season, Perdedaj went on to make 15 more appearances in the 2. Bundesliga.

In November 2010, he renewed his contract with Hertha BSC until 2015. On 4 March 2012, Perdedaj made his Bundesliga debut. In an interview following this match, Hertha-coach Otto Rehhagel nicknamed him "Paradise", partly due to his performance in the match, partly due to the fact that Rehhagel could not pronounce "Perdedaj" correctly. Perdedaj went on play in seven of Hertha's ten remaining games that season.

The following season, he left Hertha on the last day of the summer transfer window, and signed a loan deal with Lyngby Boldklub. In his first six months in Denmark, Perdedaj struggled to establish himself as a starter for Lyngnby, starting eight of nineteen matches before the winter break, and coming on as substitute in another four. He briefly returned to Berlin in January to participate in the Hertha BSC training camp to stay fit over the break, which is much longer in Denmark than in Germany.

He signed a contract with FC Energie Cottbus on 17 January 2014 for a year and a half.

National team

Having received the German citizenship on 21 September 2009, Perdedaj has represented Germany at various youth levels. He was first nominated for the German U19 team by Horst Hrubesch where he debuted on 18 November 2009 in a match against Scotland.

He featured repeatedly in qualifying for the 2010 U19-European Championship, but missed the finals due to injury.

He made his debut for the U-21 team on 11 October 2010 in match against the Ukraine, coming on as a substitute for Christoph Moritz.

External links

• Fanol Perdedaj at goal.com
• Fanol Perdedaj at kicker.de (German)
• Fanol Perdedaj at worldfootball.net
• Fanol Perdedaj profile at Fussballdaten