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Omar Abdou Saad (عمر عبده سعد; born 24 September 2001) is a professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for La Liga club Real Madrid.

Abdou started his senior career at Chelsea in 2019. He was loaned to Eredivise side Vitesse in 2019, Moroccan club Wydad AC in 2020, and Stoke City of the EFL Championship in 2021 before signing for Stoke in 2022. He moved to Feyenoord in January of 2023 and spent the next one and a half seasons with the club, helping them to finish in second place in the Eredivisie both seasons and winning the KNVB Cup in 2024. In August of 2024, Abdou signed for Real Madrid.

Having been born and raised in Spain with parents who emigrated from Morocco, Abdou is eligible for both nations. He was called up once for the Spanish U19 team before switching his allegiance to Morocco in 2020. He has yet to make a senior international appearance.

Early life
Abdou was born in Murcia, Spain to Moroccan parents originally from Casablanca. His father, Youssef Abdou, is a former semi-professional footballer and his mother, Amina Saad, is a schoolteacher.

Early career
Abdou started in the academy of local club Atlético Ciudad at the age of six, before the club dissolved in 2010. At this point, he was picked up by Real Murcia's academy, who had previously noticed his talent. He quickly became a hot prospect and caught the eye of multiple European clubs at a U14 tournament in 2013.

Chelsea
Abdou subsequently joined the Chelsea youth system in 2014, and stayed there for the rest of his youth development. He found success in the under-18 and under-21 sides, being a part of the teams that won the FA Youth Cup in 2017 and 2018, and signed his first professional contract with the club in 2018. Abdou was first named in a senior matchday squad on 31 October 2018, when Chelsea defeated Derby County 3-2 in the fourth round of the EFL Cup. He was also an unused substitute in a 2-0 victory in the third round of the FA Cup against Nottingham Forest on 5 January 2019.

Abdou would later state that while his time at the club was very helpful due to the quality of coaching and opposition, the move was largely motivated by the wages offered by Chelsea and the ability to support his family, and that he had to leave in order to progress and get playing time at the senior level. He ultimately left the club without having made a single senior appearance.

Loan to Vitesse
Upon turning 18, Abdou was sent on loan for the 2019-20 season to Vitesse, a Dutch Eredivisie club known for its tendency to take players on loan from Chelsea. He was named on the bench multiple times, but saw the field very few times. His first appearance for the club was a fifteen-minute cameo at the end of Vitesse's first round KNVB Cup tie against De Graafschap. Abdou made three more substitute appearances in both the Eredivise and the Cup before his loan was mutually terminated in January of 2020 due to a lack of playing time and poor fit within the Vitesse squad. He spent the rest of the season playing for Chelsea's youth teams.