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Valon Behrami

Valon Behrami was born in the year 1985, he is a professional footballer of Swiss citizenship and he plays for midfielder under English Club called Watford. He has also played in Napoli, Fiorentina, West Ham United, Lazio, Verona, Genoa, Lugano, Chiasso and Stabio. Valon Behrami had been capped for over 60 times with the international level for Switzerland National team and he played for World Cups three times and Euro of 2008 from the time he started to play in the year 2005.

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Valon Behrami has Albanian parents in the city of Titova Mitrovica, in SFR Yugoslavia. At the time he was five, the parents lost their jobs. The mother is Halime and she was a secretary and the father is Ragip and he was a manager of Plastics Company. This is why the family moved to live in Stabio, which is a village of Ticino, a canton that speak Italian in Switzerland. His mother says that he has always been energetic and was running around which was his favorite pastime. He was never tired and even now, he cannot sit still without having a ball with him.

From his biography, Valon Behrami started to play the football in the Swiss clubs like FC Lugano, FC Chiasso and FC Stabio. After appearing with Lugano for some time, he got signed with the Italian team called Genoa. He played in the Serie B Championship and he joined Udinese with Rodrigue Boister in the exchange of the Mohammed Cargo and of Vittorio Micolucci.

Valon Behrami got capped for Swiss National Team for Under 18 and for Under 19 with A Levels and this made him to be in 2006 FIFA World cup and for 2010 FiFA World cup and of 1014 FIFA World Cup. He scored the key goal while playing against Turkey and it was at the Stade De Suisse. In the world cup period of 2006, he got the groin injury and it put him to the sidelines for two group matches. For the third match playing against Korea, he was to be substituted in the game afterwards. He was not in the games that made his team to lose to Ukraine. In the world cup of 2010, he appeared as if he was elbowing Arturo Vidal who is a Chilean player and he was given the red card. This made him to be the first Swiss player who got sent home in the World Cup Match.

Valon Behrami’s girlfriend was Elena Bonzani and afterwards, he married her. The date of wedding is not known. Elena is a model and they have one child. Valon Behrami wished to play football from the time he was still young and she got involved into the football at the age of eight years. His net worth is 1.4 million Euro and his hair has inspired some artist for their hair cartoon.


Quick Facts
Birth Date: 19 Apr, 1985
Age: 35 yrs
Occupations: Association football player
Citizenship: Switzerland
Birth Place: Mitrovica
Gender: Male
Description: Swiss footballer
Spouse: Lara Gut-Behrami [M. 2018]
Net Worth 2021: 3 million
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Last Modified: Jun 27 2020
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