Leart Paqarada

Leart Paqarada

Personal information
Full name	Leart Paqarada
Date of birth	(1994-11-08) 8 November 1994
Place of birth	Bremen, Germany
Height	1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s)	Left back
Team information
Current team	SV Sandhausen
Number	19
Youth career
0000–2003	Werder Bremen
2003–2013	Bayer Leverkusen
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2012–2014	Bayer Leverkusen II	30	(1)
2014–	SV Sandhausen	43	(0)
International career‡
2009–2010	Germany U16	7	(0)
2010–2011	Germany U17	6	(0)
2012–2015	Albania U21	1	(0)
2015–	Kosovo	5	(0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 02:20, 20 May 2016 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 03:53, 16 June 2016 (UTC)

Leart Paqarada (born 8 October 1994) is a Kosovar-Albanian footballer who plays as a left-back for SV Sandhausen in the 2. Bundesliga. He was born in Germany and is of Albanian ethnicity. He played for both of their youth teams, before switching to the Kosovo national football team on 10 October 2015 in a friendly against Equatorial Guinea.

Club career

Paqarada joined SV Sandhausen in 2014 from Bayer 04 Leverkusen II. He made his 2. Bundesliga debut on 10 August 2014 against 1. FC Kaiserslautern. He played the full game in a 1–1 draw.

International

In 2012, Paqarada became an Albanian citizen and played a match with the Albania national under-21 football team. On 1 October 2014, Paqarada received his first call-up from Skënder Gega to play with Albania national under-21 football team in a friendly match against Romania U21s. He switched again to the Kosovo national team and has been the starting left-back.