Place of Birth: Gjilan, Yugoslavia (present-day Kosovo)
Date of Birth: October 9, 1991
Ethnicity: Albanian
Xherdan Shaqiri is a Swiss professional footballer. He is a midfielder and has played for Stoke City F.C. and the Swiss national football team.
Xherdan was born in Gjilan, in present-day Kosovo, to an ethnic Albanian family.
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