When Xhaka was 19 Ottmar Hitzfeld gave him his Switzerland debut at Wembley against England in a Euro qualifier – and the midfielder has not looked back since. His father, Ragip, was arrested in Kosovo in 1986 as a 22-year-old during a demonstration against the communist central government of Yugoslavia and sentenced to six years in prison...
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