
Date of birth 17 April 1992 (age 22)
Place of birth Bad Hersfeld, Germany
Height 1.84 m (6 ft 1⁄2 in)
Weight 82 kg
Playing position Defender
Shkodran Mustafi (born 17 April 1992) is a German professional footballer of Albanian descent who plays as a defender for Italian club Sampdoria.
Club career
Early career
Mustafi was born in Bad Hersfeld, Germany, to an Albanian family, originally from Gostivar. He started his career in the youth system of 1. FV Bebra and after of SV Rotenburg. Between 2006 and 2009 Mustafi played for Hamburger SV before joining Everton.
Everton
Mustafi made his competitive debut versus BATE Borisov in December 2009 in the UEFA Europa League coming on as a substitute for Tony Hibbert. He made no further first team appearances and in January 2012 moved to U.C. Sampdoria, joining the Serie A club on a free transfer.
Sampdoria
Mustafi made his competitive debut on 26 May 2012, in a 3-1 loss to Varese in Serie B.[6] On 26 October 2013, he scored his first goal for the club in a 1-0 win over Atalanta in Serie A.
International
Mustafi has played for Germany's under-17 team, winning the 2009 UEFA European Under-17 Football Championship with them. However, he expressed to the media his desire to play for Albania, the country his family is from. On 22 January 2014, Albanian media reported that Mustafi may be called up for Albania's next friendly, this was also confirmed by coach Gianni de Biasi.
However, on 28 February 2014, Joachim Löw called up Mustafi to the German national squad for a friendly match against Chile. On 13 May, he made his international debut in a friendly match against Poland.
Mustafi was selected in Germany's 30-man provisional squad before the 2014 FIFA World Cup by Löw. After initially not making Germany's World Cup squad, he was subsequently nominated as the replacement for the injured Marco Reus.
On 16 June 2014, Mustafi appeared as a substitute in Germany's opening World Cup game against Portugal, coming on in the 73rd minute to win his second cap. In the team's second match, he again came on as a substitute, replacing Jérôme Boateng at half time against Ghana.[
