Shkodran Mustafi

My take on Shkodran Mustafi is that he belongs to a class of footballers I find quietly heroic: the centre-backs whose best work goes unnoticed. Born in Bad Hersfeld, Germany, he rose through the youth systems of Hamburg and Everton before forging a journeyman's path across several leagues. Defenders rarely get the glory, yet they shoulder the blame, and that asymmetry interests me. I respect the physical sacrifice and discipline his position demands, the willingness to be the last line of defence. Even with a Silbernes Lorbeerblatt to his name, his is a career defined by grit rather than glamour, and I admire that.

Name (English)

Shkodran Mustafi

Name (Japanese)

シュコドラン・ムスタフィ

Reading

しゅこどらん・むすたふぃ

Born

April 17, 1992 (age 34)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Monkey

Origin

Bad Hersfeld, Kassel Government Region, Germany

Height

184 cm

Occupation

association football player

Awards & achievements

• Silbernes Lorbeerblatt

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/shkodranmustafi/
• Xhttps://x.com/MustafiOfficial
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shkodran%20Mustafi
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A5%E3%82%B3%E3%83%89%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A0%E3%82%B9%E3%82%BF%E3%83%95%E3%82%A3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q694014

Tags

• Kassel Government Region
• association football player

Last updated

2026-06-21

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.