{"id":8766,"date":"2023-11-16T05:15:41","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T23:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/2023\/11\/16\/granit-xhaka-sets-switzerland-record-with-119th-appearance-during-israel-euro-2024-qualifiers\/"},"modified":"2023-11-16T05:15:41","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T23:45:41","slug":"granit-xhaka-sets-switzerland-record-with-119th-appearance-during-israel-euro-2024-qualifiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/2023\/11\/16\/granit-xhaka-sets-switzerland-record-with-119th-appearance-during-israel-euro-2024-qualifiers\/","title":{"rendered":"Granit Xhaka sets Switzerland record with 119th appearance during Israel Euro 2024 qualifiers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Granit Xhaka set a Switzerland record Wednesday by playing in a 119th game for the men\u2019s national team.<\/p>\n

Xhaka captained the team in a 1-1 draw against Israel in a European Championship qualifying game in Felcsut, Hungary. Israeli teams are playing \u201chome\u201d international games in neutral countries because of the war with Hamas.<\/p>\n

ALSO READ | Euro 2024 qualifiers: Israel, Switzerland play out 1-1 draw in Hungary<\/a><\/p>\n

Switzerland would have qualified for Euro 2024 in Germany \u2014 which would be Xhaka\u2019s sixth major finals tournament \u2014 with a win Wednesday though can still advance with a game to spare by beating Kosovo at home on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The 31-year-old Xhaka broke the record he shared with Heinz Hermann, who made his 118th appearance for Switzerland in 1991.<\/p>\n

Now with Bundesliga leader Bayer Leverkusen, Xhaka was an 18-year-old midfielder with Basel when he made his Switzerland debut against England in a 2-2 draw at Wembley Stadium in June 2011.<\/p>\n

He first moved to Germany to join Borussia M\u00f6nchengladbach then spent seven seasons with Arsenal.<\/p>\n

Xhaka has scored 14 goals for the Swiss national team. He is two appearances ahead of long-time teammate Xherdan Shaqiri, who was on the bench on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

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Xhaka, with 119 appearances for the national team, broke the record he shared with Heinz Hermann, who made his 118th appearance for Switzerland in 1991.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football-sport-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}