Xherdan Shaqiri • Top 10 goals
Shaqiri played for SV Augst's and FC Basel's youth team. While on Basel's youth team, he played in the Under-15 Nike Cup 2007 and was named the best player of the tournament, and, despite having several other clubs attempting to sign him, he decided to stay with Basel. He then played for their reserve team from 2007 to 2009 in the Swiss 1. Liga and just two years later, Shaqiri signed his first professional contract with Basel on 2 January 2009. The new contract was set to keep him at St. Jakob-Park until June 2014.[5] Shaqiri made his Basel debut as a substitute on 12 July 2009 in Basel's 2009–10 season opening game against FC St. Gallen at the AFG Arena.[6] On 9 November, he scored his first goal for Basel in a 4–1 win over Neuchâtel Xamax at home.[7] At the end of the 2009–10 season, Shaqiri won the national Double with Basel and a year later won the League Championship title again. On 7 December 2011, Shaqiri provided two assists in the match against Manchester United. The match ended in an upset with Basel winning 2–1.[8] At the end of the 2011–12 season, for the second time in his Basel stint, he won the Double, the League Championship title[9] and the Swiss Cup[10] with Basel.
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