Shkodran Mustafi

**Shkodran Mustafi** (born 17 Apryle 1992) is a German perfaisional fitbawer wha plays as a defender for the Inglis club Arsenal an the Germany naitional team.

## Club career
### Early career
Mustafi wis born in Bad Hersfeld, Germany, tae an Albanie faimily, oreeginally frae Gostivar which is in Macedonie.  He stairtit his career in the youth seestem o 1. FV Bebra an efter o SV Rotenburg. Atween 2006 an 2009 Mustafi played for Hamburger SV afore joinin Everton.

### Everton
In Mey 2009 Mustafi jyned Everton, initially assigned tae the Academy team. He later statit that "Goodison Park feels like hame", efter turnin doun affers frae Manchester City an Newcastle.

Mustafi made his competitive debut versus BATE Borisov on 16 Dizember 2009 in the UEFA Europa League bi comin on as a substitute for Tony Hibbert. He wis an aa named on the bench for the Premier League matches against Arsenal an Manchester City in Januar, but remained unuised.

Mustafi anerly appeared on the bench nine times in the follaein twa campaigns, but niver played in ony further matches.

### Sampdoria
In Januar 2012 Mustafi muivit tae Italian Serie B side U.C. Sampdoria, in a free transfer. The deal wis later describit as an "attempt tae raise cash for new signins" bi manager David Moyes.

Mustafi made his *Samp* debut on 26 Mey 2012, stairtin an playin the full 90 minutes o a 1–3 loss at Varese. It wis his maiden appearance in the competeetion, as Sampdoria returned tae Serie A at first attempt.

Mustafi made his debut in the Italian tap flicht on 11 November 2012, stairtin in a 0–2 loss at Palermo. On 26 October o the follaein year he scored his first profeesional goal, nettin the gemme's anerly against Atalanta at the *[[Stadio Luigi Ferraris]]*.

### Valencia
On 7 August 2014 Mustafi signed a five-year deal wi La Liga's Valencia CF, for a undisclosed fee, rumoured tae be € 8 million.

## Internaitional
Mustafi haes played for Germany's unner-17 team, winnin the 2009 UEFA European Under-17 Fitbaa Championship wi thaim. Housomeivver, he expressed tae the media his desire tae play for Albanie, the kintra his faimily is frae. On 22 Januar 2014, Albanian media reportit that Mustafi mey be cried up for Albanie's next friendly, this wis confirmit bi coach Gianni de Biasi an aw.

Housomeivver, on 28 Februar 2014, Joachim Löw cried up Mustafi tae the German naitional squad for a friendly match against Chile. On 13 Mey, he made his internaitional debut in a friendly match against Poland.

Mustafi wis selectit in Germany's 30-man proveesional squad afore the 2014 FIFA Warld Cup bi Löw. Efter initially no makkin Germany's Warld Cup squad, he wis subsequently nominatit as the replacement for the injured Marco Reus.

On 16 Juin 2014, Mustafi appeared as a substitute in Germany's openin Warld Cup gemme against Portugal, comin on in the 73rd minute tae win his seicont cap. In the team's seicont match, he again came on as a substitute, replacin Jérôme Boateng at hauf time against Ghana. He wis selectit tae stairt at richt back in Germany's roond o 16 match against Algerie, but wis substitutit in the 70t minute due tae a injury in his left thigh. It wis later confirmit bi the DFB that Mustafi wad tak nae further pairt in the Warld Cup due tae the torn feebre muscle.

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## Honours
**Germany U17**
*UEFA European Under-17 Football Championship: 2009

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