Berat Sadik ( sq, Berat Sadiku; born 14 September 1986) is a Finnish

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby le ...

who plays as a striker for

Doxa Katokopias Doxa Katokopias FC ( el, Δόξα Κατωκοπιάς) is a Cypriot football team from Katokopia in the Nicosia District. Since the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974, Katokopia is under Turkish occupation, and the club moved to Peristerona, w ...

Early life

Sadik was born in

Skopje Skopje ( , , ; mk, Скопје ; sq, Shkup) is the capital and largest city of North Macedonia. It is the country's political, cultural, economic, and academic centre. The territory of Skopje has been inhabited since at least 4000 BC; r ...

SR Macedonia The Socialist Republic of Macedonia ( mk, Социјалистичка Република Македонија, Socijalistička Republika Makedonija), or SR Macedonia, commonly referred to as Socialist Macedonia or Yugoslav Macedonia, was ...

, then still part of former

Yugoslavia Yugoslavia (; sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Jugoslavija, Југославија ; sl, Jugoslavija ; mk, Југославија ;; rup, Iugoslavia; hu, Jugoszlávia; rue, label=Pannonian Rusyn, Югославия, translit=Juhoslavija ...

, on 14 September 1986 to Albanian parents and moved to Finland with his family at the age of three.

Career

On 16 June 2008, it was published that

Arminia Bielefeld DSC Arminia Bielefeld (; full name: ; commonly known as Arminia Bielefeld (), also known as ''Die Arminen'' or ''Die Blauen'' ), or just Arminia (), is a German sports club from Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia. Arminia offers the sports of ...

was keen to sign him. Also

Ascoli Ascoli may refer to: Places in Italy *Ascoli Satriano, a town and ''comune'' in the province of Foggia in the Apulia region *Province of Ascoli Piceno, a province of the Marche region **Ascoli Piceno, a city which is the seat of the province above ...

Torino Turin ( , Piedmontese: ; it, Torino ) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in Northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital from 1861 to 1865. T ...

Larissa Larissa (; el, Λάρισα, , ) is the capital and largest city of the Thessaly region in Greece. It is the fifth-most populous city in Greece with a population of 144,651 according to the 2011 census. It is also capital of the Larissa regiona ...

Örebro Örebro ( , ) is the List of urban areas in Sweden by population, sixth-largest city in Sweden, the seat of Örebro Municipality, and capital of the Örebro County. It is situated by the Närke Plain, near the lake Hjälmaren, a few kilometers in ...

and Rosenborg were interested to sign Sadik. After visiting Ascoli and Bielefeld he chose to sign a three-year contract with Arminia. In December 2007, he was on trial to

Vicenza Calcio L.R. Vicenza, commonly referred to as Vicenza, is an Football in Italy, Italian football club based in Vicenza, Veneto. Founded in 1902 as Associazione del Calcio in Vicenza, they became Lanerossi Vicenza in 1953, then Vicenza Calcio from 1990 ...

. After just one year, he left

, where he played only thirteen games, and joined

SV Zulte Waregem Sportvereniging Zulte Waregem (), commonly known as Zulte Waregem or by their nickname Essevee (), is a Belgian professional football club based in Waregem, West Flanders. Zulte Waregem plays in the Belgian First Division A. Their highest finish ...

on loan for 10 months. He was released by Bielefeld in August 2010 and he rejoined the Veikkausliiga strugglers

FC Lahti FC Lahti is a Finnish football club based in the city of Lahti. It currently plays in the Finnish Premier League (''Veikkausliiga'') after placing first in the Finnish First Division (''Ykkönen'') during season 2011. The homeground of FC Lah ...

on 24 August 2010. He celebrated his comeback by scoring in his first appearance in a 1–1 draw against JJK. On 31 January 2011, Sadik signed a two-year contract with HJK. He finished the season with 15 goals, being the club's second-best goalscorer, one goal behind

Akseli Pelvas Akseli Pelvas (born 8 February 1989) is a retired Finnish footballer who played as a striker. Career Club Pelvas got started with football in the age of five, when he joined EsPa in Espoo. In 2003, he joined HJK’s juniors at the age of 14. ...

. On 22 January 2019, Sadik signed an 18-month deal with

Segunda División The Campeonato Nacional de Liga de Segunda División, commercially known as LaLiga SmartBank for sponsorship reasons, is the men's second professional association football division of the Spanish football league system. Administrated by the Lig ...

side

Gimnàstic de Tarragona Club Gimnàstic de Tarragona, commonly known as Gimnàstic Tarragona or sometimes just Nàstic, is a Spanish sports club based in Tarragona, in the autonomous community of Catalonia. Its football team plays in Primera División RFEF – Group 2. ...

. On 5 August, after suffering relegation, he terminated his contract.

International career

Sadik debuted for

Finland national football team The Finland national football team ( fi, Suomen jalkapallomaajoukkue, sv, Finlands fotbollslandslag) represents Finland in men's international football competitions and is controlled by the Football Association of Finland, the governing body ...

against

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on 29 May 2008.

Career statistics

Club

International goals

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Windsor Park Windsor Park is a football stadium in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It is the home ground of Linfield F.C. who own the land the stadium is built on, while the Irish Football Association own and operate the stadium and pay Linfield an annual rent ...

Belfast Belfast ( , ; from ga, Béal Feirste , meaning 'mouth of the sand-bank ford') is the capital and largest city of Northern Ireland, standing on the banks of the River Lagan on the east coast. It is the 12th-largest city in the United Kingdo ...

Northern Ireland Northern Ireland ( ga, Tuaisceart Éireann ; sco, label= Ulster-Scots, Norlin Airlann) is a part of the United Kingdom, situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, that is variously described as a country, province or region. Nort ...

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UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying The UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying tournament was a football competition that was played from September 2014 to November 2015 to determine the 23 UEFA member men's national teams joining the automatically qualified host team France in the UEFA Euro 2 ...

References

External links

Berat Sadik
at Arminia's official website * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Sadik, Berat 1986 births Living people Footballers from Skopje Men's association football forwards Finnish footballers Finnish expatriate footballers Finland men's international footballers Finland men's under-21 international footballers Finnish people of Albanian descent Finnish people of Macedonian descent Albanian footballers from North Macedonia FC Lahti players Arminia Bielefeld players S.V. Zulte Waregem players Helsingin Jalkapalloklubi players FC Thun players PFC Krylia Sovetov Samara players Kuopion Palloseura players Doxa Katokopias FC players Gimnàstic de Tarragona footballers Veikkausliiga players Bundesliga players Swiss Super League players Segunda División players Russian Premier League players Cypriot First Division players Expatriate footballers in Germany Finnish expatriate sportspeople in Germany Expatriate footballers in Belgium Finnish expatriate sportspeople in Belgium Expatriate footballers in Switzerland Finnish expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland Expatriate footballers in Russia Finnish expatriate sportspeople in Russia Expatriate footballers in Cyprus Finnish expatriate sportspeople in Cyprus Expatriate footballers in Spain Finnish expatriate sportspeople in Spain Macedonian emigrants to Finland