Ardian Gashi

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Ardian Gashi
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Gashi with Vålerenga in 2006
Personal information
Date of birth (1981-06-20) 20 June 1981 (age 42)
Place of birth Gjakova, SFR Yugoslavia
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Position(s) Centre midfielder
Team information
Current team
 Odd
Number 3
Youth career
KIL/Hemne
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2001 Molde 4 (0)
2002–2003 Ørn Horten 39 (9)
2003 Vålerenga (loan) 14 (1)
2004–2006 Vålerenga 62 (10)
2006–2007 Brann 18 (0)
2007–2009 Fredrikstad 64 (10)
2010–2014 Helsingborg 124 (8)
2014– Odd 27 (0)
International career‡
2002–2003 Norway U21 18 (2)
2004–2013 Norway 14 (0)
2014– Kosovo 2 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 21 August 2015
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 11 March 2014

Ardian Gashi (born 20 June 1981) is a Kosovar-Norwegian footballer who plays as a midfielder for Norwegian club Odd. Gashi has previously played for Molde, Vålerenga, Brann and Fredrikstad in the Norwegian Premier League, and Helsingborg in Allsvenskan.

Gashi is from Kosovo, but his family moved to Norway when he was eight years old. He became a Norwegian citizen, and has played for the Norwegian national team until 2014, when he started to play for Kosovo.

Club career

Gashi was born in Gjakova, SFR Yugoslavia but Gashi's family, who is of Albanian ethnicity, moved from Kosovo to Norway as refugees when he was eight years old.[1][2] Gashi's family moved to Kyrksæterøra in Norway and he started to play football at the local club KIL/Hemne before he moved transferred to Molde in 1998.[3] After a spell at Ørn Horten he went to Oslo to play for Vålerenga on loan in 2003, and later permanently.

Gashi was an important player in Vålerenga's good 2004 season, when the club finished as runners-up in the Norwegian Premier League.

In the 2005 season Gashi missed a number of games in August, due to having to serve a prison sentence for breaking the speed limits while driving. He was sentenced to 18 days in prison, but was released after 14, for good behavior, and thus managed to play in Vålerenga's 1–0 loss.[4] He was later to play in the penalty shootout loss against Club Brugge in the last round of UEFA Champions League qualification.

On 30 August 2006, Gashi signed for Brann in a transfer worth about NOK 7.000.000. His stay in Bergen was of the short kind; On 25 July 2007 he signed with Fredrikstad FK. It was announced in December 2009 that he would join Swedish club Helsingborgs IF for the 2010 season.

In Helsingborg he become somewhat of and icon to the club and in the 2011 season he formed a very successful central midfield partnership with May Mahlangu which was a key to Helsingborg won both the cup and the league.

On 5 August 2014, he joined Odd, signing a contract until the summer of 2017.[5]

International career

Gashi played 18 matches for the Norwegian under-21 team between 2002 and 2003, scoring two goals.[6] He was later capped seven times for the senior team between 2004 and 2005, his last cap was the 2006 World Cup qualifying match against Belarus on 12 October 2005. In October 2012, Gashi was again called up for the national team squad, following Håvard Nordtveit's suspension ahead of the 2014 World Cup qualifying match against Cyprus[7][8] Gashi started the match on the bench, but came on as a substitute for Magnus Wolff Eikrem after 89 minutes.[9]

Even though Gashi has been capped for Norway, he has stated several times that his biggest dream is to represent Kosovo as a footballer.[10] He has also stated that, although he is ethnically Albanian, he would like to score against Albania in the qualifiers for the FIFA World Cup 2014, if he will be selected for the upcoming 2013 matches and won't follow the example of Granit Xhaka, another ethnic Albanian, playing for Switzerland, who graced Albania in their match against the Swiss.[2]

Ahead of the friendly match against South Africa in January 2013, Gashi persuaded Egil "Drillo" Olsen to play with him as the holding midfielder, and Drillo praised Gashi's performance after the match.[11]

Gashi switched to the Kosovar FA, and made an appearance for them in their first ever game against Haiti national football team in a 1-1 tie.

Career statistics

As of 24 February 2016[12]
Season Club Division League Cup Total
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
2001 Molde Tippeligaen 4 0 2 1 6 1
2002 Ørn Horten Adeccoligaen 26 8 2 1 27 9
2003 13 1 2 0 15 1
2003 Vålerenga Tippeligaen 14 1 2 0 16 1
2004 25 4 3 1 28 5
2005 22 6 4 2 26 8
2006 15 0 3 2 18 2
2006 Brann 7 0 0 0 7 0
2007 11 0 3 0 14 0
2007 Fredrikstad 11 5 0 0 11 5
2008 25 3 3 1 28 4
2009 28 2 4 1 32 3
2010 Helsingborg Allsvenskan 27 5 4 0 31 5
2011 30 1 4 0 34 1
2012 27 0 1 0 28 0
2013 27 2 0 0 27 2
2014 13 0 0 0 13 0
2014 Odd Tippeligaen 11 0 3 0 14 0
2015 16 0 3 1 19 1
2016 0 0 0 0 0 0
Career Total 352 38 43 10 395 48

Honors

Club

Vålerenga
Brann
Helsingborg

Individual

References

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  13. ↑ Kniksen-prisene 2004 – Eliteserien – NRK Sport

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