Blick scouted him: this boy is now Swiss champion and at the European Championship

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“If Bledian continues like this, he will be in the A-Nati in a year and a half. He has all the qualities.” This August 2021 prediction from national record scorer and current Aarau coach Alex Frei (43) did not come true – Bledian Krasniqi is still waiting for a call from Murat Yakin (48). nothing to be ashamed of: the national title with FC Zurich in the summer of 2022 and participation in the U21 European Championship are not bad alternatives.

When Frei praised Krasniqi two years ago, his star was just rising on the big stage. After returning on loan from Wil, he started at his regular club FC Zurich and became an important part of André Breitenreiter’s (49) puzzle master – and a household name among Swiss football fans.

Krasniqi and the “Goal of the Month” at Blick

Attentive Blick readers, on the other hand, have known Krasniqi for a long time. When Blick asked amateur and youth players eight years ago to send in videos of their best scenes on the football field, Krasniqi also felt addressed. He had just scored a dream goal for the FCZ U15s – and thought to himself: “I’ll try!” He even won the Goal of the Month award.

When Blick confronted him about the video in the national team’s U21 camp, Krasniqi grinned: “I don’t remember the award. But because I got a lot of reactions. And now that I see it again: It was a really nice goal .” It was the time when the dream of professional football first became tangible: “From the U15 onwards, the opponents are called Basel, GC or Servette. That’s when I started to believe in it.”

Alex Frei became his major sponsor

In 2018 he got a place in the FCZ professional team, a year later he was loaned to FC Wil. “In the beginning it was a setback. Then I said to myself: there is no point in being sad, I have to earn my return to FCZ.”

In his second season in Eastern Switzerland, Alex Frei became a trainer – and major sponsor of Krasniqi. “Alex is the person who has helped me the most in my career. He immediately understood me as a person and as a player. I owe the way I play now to him.” The original Basel player Frei made the original FCZ player Krasniqi (joined the club at the age of eight) fit for the championship title – that doesn’t happen every day.

Source : Blick