nationalcaps birth_date currentclub pcupdate years youthyears caps goals nationalyears image fullname caption ntupdate birth_place nationalteam height clubnumber nationalgoals youthclubs clubs position article_title
14 14 10 5 35 27 september 1992 borussia mönchengladbach 15 february 2014 2000 -- 2002 2002 -- 2010 2000 -- 2002 2002 -- 2010 44 68 2 3 2008 2010 -- 2011 2011 -- -- 2009 2009 -- 2010 2010 -- 2011 xhakabmg.jpg granit xhaka granit xhaka playing for borussia mönchengladbach in 2014 31 march 2015 basel , switzerland switzerland u17 switzerland u18 switzerland u19 switzerland u21 switzerland 1.85 march 2015 34 1 3 3 0 6 concordia basel basel concordia basel basel midfielder granit xhaka

granit xhaka

granit xhaka -lrb- ; born 27 september 1992 -rrb- is a swiss professional footballer of kosovo-albanian descent who plays as a midfielder for german club borussia mönchengladbach .
a full international for switzerland since 2011 , he has gained over 30 caps and was included in their squad for the 2014 fifa world cup .
swiss national manager ottmar hitzfeld once dubbed him the `` young schweinsteiger '' , however , because of his intelligence and his love for science , he is now known more commonly amongst his teammates as `` young einstein '' .
