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Hamzah Sadiek (Amstelveen 18 october 1994) is a Dutch professional football scout.

Career
Sadiek played football in his youth for Legmeervogels, SV Argon and USV Elinkwijk. On a professional level in youth, Sadiek played for HFC Haarlem and five seasons with FC Utrecht. He also played in various youth teams at the KNVB. After several cruciate ligament injuries at FC Utrecht, Sadiek tried again in the top class at EVV in Echt in combination with his law study at Maastricht University, but stopped playing football after one season to fully concentrate on his scouting career. He attended a football scouting course.

From 2018 to 2020, as a 23-year-old, according to Transfermarkt research, he was the youngest head scout in the world. He held this position at the Belgian football club Koninklijke Patro Eisden Maasmechelen,  where he immediately obtained his doctorate in his first year. Sadiek combined the position of chief scout with that of commercial manager within the youth academy in Maasmechelen.

After his employment with Koninklijke Patro Eisden Maasmechelen, Sadiek became a scout for the Surinamese Football Association in 2020. In that year, it was adopted in Suriname for the first time in regulations that professional football players in Europe and all over the world with a Dutch passport were also allowed to leave for Suriname. come. In this year, Suriname participated in the CONCACAF Gold Cup for the first time in history. In March 2022, Sadiek signed a three-year contract at the age of 27 in the Spanish La Liga with Cádiz CF as an international scout at the highest level.

Together with Humphry Nijman, Sadiek developed the Created Crowd app in 2020 with which stadiums are virtually filled with audiences, as a result of the empty stadiums during the corona pandemic.

Sources, notes and/or references

 * 1) ↑ 'Being the youngest Chief Scout on this planet makes me very proud' . Football zone ( May 25, 2019 ). Accessed May 17, 2022.
 * 2) ↑ Hamzah Sadiek is Patro's new chief scout: “Learned a lot from Leo Beenhakker” . The Importance of Limburg ( November 18, 2018 ). Accessed May 16, 2022.
 * 3) ↑ The Dutchman who starts working in LaLiga at the age of 27 . Football zone ( March 27, 2022 ). Accessed July 5, 2022.
 * 4) ↑ ( s ) Hamzah Sadiek - Manager profile . www.transfermarkt.com . Accessed May 17, 2022.
 * 5) ↑ With this app you will soon be virtually in a football stadium . FunX.nl ( September 4, 2020 ). Accessed July 5, 2022.
 * 6) ↑ Suriname shows interest in 'Created Crowd' . Waterfront ( August 7, 2021 ).