ORHAN ADEMI

Orhan Ademi

Nationality: Switzerland / Macedonia / Albania

Age: 21

D.O.B: 28/10/1991

Place of Birth: St. Gallen

Position: Forward

Club: Eintracht Braunschweig

Orham Ademi currently plays for Eintracht Braunschewig in the German 2 Bundesliga. He started his career playing in the Austrian Erste Liga where he played a total of 96 games scoring a rather impressive 30 goals (3.2 games per goal).

In the current 2012-13 season, Ademi has been snapped up by the 2 Bundesliga side where he has already found the net 4 times in 16 appearances as he establishes himself as a fundamental pillar of the current side.

Ademi was late last year called up to the Swiss national under 21 squad for the play-off games against Germany – however he did not make an appearance, which might prove beneficial should the Albanian FA want to pursue the youngsters services.

Orham Ademi is one of the latest in a string of Albanian players to feature for the Swiss national team, and it is a matter of time before he, like Xhaka and Shaqiri, is called up to represent the Swiss.

His time at Eintracht Braunschweig is bound to be cut short by offers once he is fully established as a player in the next season or so. Ademi has the speed and technique and game awareness to ensure that he makes a mark on the game. It will be highly unlikely for any of the Albanian speaking nations to convince him to represent them considering that his mentality may be slightly different from the rest of the Albanian players out there – he may have seen what his fellow Albanians are capable of doing when presented with the right opportunities (e.g. Xherdan Shaqiri) and as such his ambition may force him to seek the optimum conditions to develop his game.