The Lucerne player is one of the brightest talents in Swiss football.
A good medium needs to grow close to thewater, as if to assimilate their characteristics and make them the strengths of one’s way of being on the pitch. There calm of windless days, in the management of the ball; the forza of the waves, in recoveries; there capillarity, the ability to be anywhere and reach any corner of the pitch. Although there are obviously exceptions, most of the best performers in different footballing eras were born and/or raised in cities that are reflected in seas, rivers, lakes or at least canals.
Sergio Busquets was born in the Catalan hinterland, in Sabadell, but it was on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea that he trained as a footballer, in quarry of Barça. Jorginho He was born in Imbituba, on the coast of the state of Santa Catarina, south of São Paulo, and it was on the sands kissed by the waves of the Atlantic Ocean that he kicked his first balls. Calhanoglu is Mannheim, even enclosed between two rivers, the Rhine and the Necker. A Rijkaardinstead, the artificial waters of the Amsterdam canals were enough to become the metronome of one of the strongest teams in history.
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These represent excellence in role interpretation. Like them, there are others who have inherited the properties of H2O molecules in their football DNA.
Among these there is Ardon Jashari, captain of Lucerne and future metronome of Switzerland. In his life, even before coming into the world, water has always had an important place: the family is originally from North Macedoniamore precisely from the Vardar region, which takes its name from the river of the same name, and chose to settle in Chamin Switzerland, where Ardon was born and raised.
If you take the panoramic train from Milan to Zurich, once you have passed the rockiest area you will find yourself catching glimpses, every now and then, of the lake, with the sailboats standing still like in a postcard. It is the lake Zugwhich gives its name to the canton. At one end lies the town of Cham. The canton of Zug does not offer much in terms of football: as a young man, Jashari was forced to move about twenty kilometers to the southwest, on the shores of another lake, that of Lantern.
There he grew up, without too many expectations, as an attacking midfielder. Despite his quality, the delay in physical development meant that he did not particularly steal the eye: Ardon is not never been called up to the youth national teams before the under 21s. The classic adolescence of “one of many”, after all. Life and career change when his role changes: from an insipid attacking midfielder he transforms into a complete modern midfielder. Strong, calm and capillary, like the water that has always cradled its dreams and restlessness.
He made his first team debut on 31 July 2020, in the midst of the pandemic, against Zurich. It was launched by the current Basel coach, Fabio Castellini, but it is with Mario Frick who becomes the starter and cornerstone of the team. In the summer of 2022, at the age of 20, Jashari wears the captain’s armband for the first time: again against Zurich, a few months after scoring the first goal, in the 3-0 defeat of the relegation play-off against Schaffhausen.
On September 19, 2022, thanks to Okafor’s package, the first call-up to the national team, 10 years after the last time for a Lucerne player (Alain Wiss). He made his debut in the second match of that break, against the Czech Republic. His entry into Freuler’s place has all the appearances of a handover.
What a player Ardon Jashari is
Ardon Jashari and I modern mediumwho can play both as a two-man midfielder and as a three-man midfielder. He touches a lot of balls, almost always two touchesand with a great variety of solutions: high, low, long, short ball, it’s always necessary ed aesthetically pleasing. He often drops deep to get the ball, his teammates rely on him when they find themselves in uncomfortable situations: Jashari is always there and cleans up every ball with wisdom, technique and elegance.
He is also very good at primo dribbling and in the vertical progression with the ball at your feetwith which he breaks the opponent’s lines and gives the go-ahead to offensive transitions. Over the years he has also improved a lot in the finishing and conclusion phase: he closed the last season with 6 gol (double the number he had scored in his career up until then) e 4 assist.
In defensive phase he knows how to use the 181cm x 81kg very well. He has good readings, is good at interceptions and phenomenal at recoveries in running backs. When he plays as a two, he presides over the internal corridor of competence very well, while as a low top three he often seems a bit content to maintain his position. He still can improve in containing 1vs1s and managing energy: after halfway through the second half he often seems very tired and his performances drop.
It vaguely reminds me Zubimendi (by the way, they are the same height), but with an aura of Balkan street football. At home they compare it to Xhakaboth for the Origins Albanian-Kosovar and for technical characteristics. The two, among other things, have already been at the center of a detail political episode: after a match won against Serbia, the Swiss captain celebrated by showing a shirt of his young teammate Jashari. This gesture, apparently harmless, hid an ambiguity, immediately pointed out: the young Ardon has the same surname as Adem Jasharione of the architects of the liberation of Kosovo.
What does this have to do with Switzerland-Italy?
What does all this have to do with the eighth finals between Italy and Switzerland? Probably nothing: even if after the excellent season with Lucerne Jashari was called up for Euro 2024in the hierarchies he has experienced players such as Xhaka, Freuler, Aebischer and the Toulouse midfielder Sierro in front of him. He hasn’t taken the field yet in Germany, and he is unlikely to do so in such a delicate match.
There are some points of contact with our football. In the latest market sessionsseveral specialized media have reported it linked several times to Serie A. In 2023 he was followed by Bologna and from Veronawhich then had Freuler and Serdar respectively. In January 2024 his name had been put forward for the Napolilooking for a deputy-Lobotka, and for the Sassuolo.
In the end, no one made a definitive move: Jashari, despite the interest of many other teams – Arsenal, Sporting, Ajax, Real Sociedad and Basel – remained in Lucerne, where he became captain and had the opportunity to demonstrate that he had very little to do with the chicken salvation of the Swiss championship. In the end, we will not see Ardon Jashari even in Serie A.
Before the start of the European Championship, the Club Brugge he anticipated everyone, closing a deal from 6 million euros – no, the subtitle wasn’t a cliché, it was a spoiler vero (sorry). For Jashari it is the first big leap of his career: from a province in the Swiss mountains to a club expert in launching a myriad of talents in the last decade and which plays in European cups every year. In Belgium he will be able to grow up calmly, among the picturesque canals of one of the most beautiful cities in Belgium. Who knows, maybe in the future we will find him in front of us, orchestrating the Swiss midfield, taking up Xhaka’s legacy, or on any Sunday afternoon in Serie A.
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2024-06-29 08:00:00
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