Danel Sinani

Danel Sinani (Serbian Cyrillic: Данел Синани, born 5 April 1997) is a Luxembourgish professional footballer who plays club football for Norwich City, as a midfielder.

Danel Sinani
Personal information
Full name Danel Sinani
Date of birth (1997-04-05) 5 April 1997
Place of birth Belgrade, Yugoslavia
Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Playing position(s) Winger
Club information
Current team
 Norwich City
Youth career
0000–2012 FC Differdange 03
2012–2014 Racing FC
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2014–2017 Racing FC 72 (15)
2017–2020 Dudelange 64 (30)
2020– Norwich City 0 (0)
National team‡
2015 Luxembourg U19 3 (0)
2015– Luxembourg U21 11 (1)
2017– Luxembourg 21 (3)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 19:36, 18 May 2020 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 17 November 2019

Club career

Sinani played club football in Luxembourg for Racing FC Union Luxembourg before joining F91 Dudelange in 2017.[1][2] With the latter, he won two Luxembourg National Division titles and the Luxembourg Cup.[3] In November 2018, he scored against Olympiacos the first ever goal for a Luxembourgish club in the group stage of a major European competition.[3] In 2019, Sinani was given the Luxembourg Footballer of the Year award. It was his first award of the trophy, known as the Wanderpokal Challenge Guy Greffrath (Challenge Guy Greffrath Challenge Cup).[4] In the summer of 2019, Sinani was offered a move to R.E. Virton, who play in the Belgian league, but he refused the deal.[5] Later in the year, he scored two goals in a Europa League match against five time Europa League winners Sevilla.[3][6] As of 2020, he has scored 13 goals in UEFA Champions League and Europa League matches.[3] Sinani has scored 14 goals in 16 appearances in the 2019–20 Luxembourg National Division,[7] nine goals in the 2019–20 UEFA Europa League, and 24 goals in 30 matches in all competitions.[8]

In April 2020, he signed for Norwich City for the 2020–21 season.[9] His contract is until 2023,[7] and he is the first Luxembourgish Norwich City player.[10]

International career

He made his international debut for Luxembourg in 2017.[1] Kosovo approached Sinani about representing them internationally, as his parents are from Dragaš. Sinani refused the meeting to discuss it, as he sees Luxembourg as his home.[11] Sinani scored three goals for Luxembourg during their 2018–19 UEFA Nations League D campaign.[3]

Personal life

Sinani was born in Belgrade, Serbia, FR Yugoslavia to ethnic Gorani parents from Dragaš. He moved to Luxembourg along with his family at the age of 5.[12]

International goals
Scores and results list Luxembourg's goal tally first.[1]
NoDateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
18 September 2018Stade Josy Barthel, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg Moldova3–04–02018–19 UEFA Nations League D
211 September 2018San Marino Stadium, Serravalle, San Marino San Marino3–03–0
315 October 2018Stade Josy Barthel, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg San Marino2–03–0

Honours

Dudelange

Individual

References
  1. Danel Sinani at National-Football-Teams.com
  2. Danel Sinani at Soccerway
  3. "Factfile: Danel Sinani". Norwich City F.C. 10 April 2020. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
  4. "Danel Sinani ist Fußballer des Jahres". wort.lu (in German). 27 September 2019. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
  5. Mollereau, Julien (3 April 2020). "Mon contrat ? J'ai tout simplement signé et tout renvoyé par la poste". Le Quotidien (in French). Retrieved 11 April 2020.
  6. "Europa League: Sinani rettet die F91-Ehre gegen Sevilla". Tageblatt (in German). 7 November 2019. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
  7. "Norwich sign Danel Sinani from F91 Dudelange after placing staff on furlough". ESPN. 10 April 2020. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
  8. "Daniel Sinani: Luxembourg international striker agrees Norwich transfer". Sky Sports. 10 April 2020. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
  9. "Norwich sign Luxembourg forward Danel Sinani". BBC Sport. 10 April 2020. Retrieved 10 April 2020.
  10. "Norwich City complete signing of Danel Sinani". The Pink'un. 10 April 2020. Retrieved 10 April 2020.
  11. CVETKOVIĆ, Ivan (10 September 2019). "Srbiju večeras napada Beograđanin Danel Sinani!". sportske.net (in Bosnian). Retrieved 11 April 2020.
  12. "Historia e Danel Sinanit, djalit nga Sharri që nuk është… shqiptar" [The history of Danel Sinani, the boy from Sharr who is not an… Albanian] (in Albanian). Sport Ekspres. 5 September 2018. Retrieved 3 January 2019.
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