Şaban Özdoğan (born 14 March 1990) is a Danish

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who plays for

Ishøj IF Ishøj IF is a football club from Ishøj, Denmark. The club was founded in 2017. Its first squad plays in the Danish 3rd Division. The club has more than 1,000 members. Ishøj IF started its existence in the Zealand Series in 2017. The club wa ...

as a playing assistant manager. He previously played for

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club

F.C. Copenhagen Football Club Copenhagen ( da, Football Club København, ), commonly known as FC København, FC Copenhagen, Copenhagen or simply FCK, is a professional Danish football club in Copenhagen, Denmark. FCK was founded in 1992 as a superstructure on ...

Club career

Özdoğan started playing youth football at Avarta. He moved to

Kjøbenhavns Boldklub Kjøbenhavns Boldklub or KB is a Danish sports club based in Copenhagen. The club was founded 26 April 1876 on the grassy fields in outer Copenhagen which later became Fælledparken. Tennis has been played since 1883. The club hosted, in 1921, on ...

(KB) in 1999, the reserve team of multiple Danish champions

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. Özdoğan made his debut for Copenhagen, the defending

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champions, in the unofficial 2006

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tournament in May 2006, after playing the first half of the 2006–07 season for KB's youth team. On 3 December 2006, he made his official debut for the club in 1–0 home loss to Norwegian club

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in the

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, replacing

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in the 69th minute. In 2007, he was promoted to the KB senior squad, two years early, alongside Mads Laudrup. Ahead of the 2009–10 season, Özdoğan was promoted to the Copenhagen first team squad together with

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, under manager

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. Özdoğan made his Superliga debut in April 2010, and played two games as Copenhagen won the

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championship. In the following season, he played in four games, as FCK won the championship once again. Özdoğan played a total of 70 minutes in these six games for FCK. Özdoğan had his contract terminated in December 2011, as he was deemed surplus to requirements by Copenhagen's new manager

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. After undergoing a trial with Turkish

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club Kasımpaşa, Özdoğan chose not to sign with the club, suspecting that the contract offered was dubious. Following an unsuccessful trial with

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club Viborg, Özdoğan returned to his childhood club, Avarta, in the

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during the spring season of 2012. In August of the same year, he joined rival club Svebølle B&I, also in the 2nd Division. In the summer of 2019, Avarta announced that Özdoğan had departed the club and would take on the role of a playing assistant manager at

International career

He has played 26 games and scored a single goal for various Danish youth national teams. He made his debut for the Danish under-16 national team in January 2006, and played two matches for the team and scored a goal. In September 2006, he was called up for the Danish under-17 national team.

Honours

Copenhagen *

: 2009–10,

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ozdogan, Saban 1990 births Living people Danish men's footballers Danish people of Turkish descent F.C. Copenhagen players Men's association football wingers Boldklubben Avarta players Kjøbenhavns Boldklub players Danish Superliga players Ishøj IF players Denmark Series players Footballers from Copenhagen Holbæk B&I players