Dormushali Safet Saidhodzha or simply Mushi ( bg, Дормушали Саидходжа, tr, Saffet Durmuş Ali Saidhoca (born 16 May 1986) is a

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n football striker of Turkish heritage.

Career

Botev Plovdiv

Saidhodzha started to play in local team Asenovets. Then he moved to Botev Plovdiv. Three years later he signed his first professional contract with Botev Plovdiv. He made his official debut for Botev in a match against

Lokomotiv Sofia Lokomotiv 1929 ( bg, Локомотив 1929) is a Bulgarian professional association football club based in Sofia, which currently plays in the First League, the top tier of Bulgarian football. Founded as Railway Sports Club in 1929, and refou ...

on 29 November 2003. He substituted Stefan Kostadinov in the second half and played for 26 minutes. The result of the match was a 0:1 loss for Botev. On 6 April 2005 Muscho, as he is known among the Botev supporters, scored six goals against

Lokomotiv Gorna Oryahovitsa Lokomotiv ( bg, Локомотив) is a Bulgarian association football club based in Gorna Oryahovitsa, which currently competes in the Third League, the third level of Bulgarian football. Established in 1932 as a sports association of the rai ...

in a match from Bulgarian second division. He scored in the 5th, 42nd, 59th, 61st, 77th and 79th minute. The result of the match was an 8:0 win for Botev. In January 2007 Saidhodzha was loaned out for six months to Danish professional football team

Randers FC Randers FC () is a professional football club based in Randers, East Jutland, Denmark, that plays in the Danish Superliga, the top flight of the Danish football league system. Founded on 1 January 2003, the club builds upon the license of Rande ...

. However, he played in only two matches and returned to Botev in June 2007. On 25 August 2008 it was reported in the Bulgaria media that he was a target for Austria side

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. Few days later

officially invited Saidhodzha to join the training sessions of their first team for a week.

CSKA Sofia

In the winter break of 2008-09 season he moved to

CSKA Sofia CSKA Sofia ( bg, ЦСКА София) is a Bulgarian professional association football club based in Sofia and currently competing in the country's premier football competition, the First League. ''CSKA'' is an abbreviation for ''Central Sport ...

. He scored in his unofficial debut for the club against

FK Jagodina Fudbalski klub Jagodina () is a Serbian professional football club based in the city of Jagodina, which plays in the Serbian First League, the second tier in Serbia's football league. The club was founded in 1919 under the name ''JSK Zora'', jus ...

netting the third goal for the final 4:1 win for CSKA. He scored 9 goals in 13 matches for CSKA and a total 15 goals in 29 matches for

and Botev Plovdiv.

Litex Lovech

On 31 August 2009, several hours before the end of the summer transfer window, he was loaned to

Litex Lovech Litex ( bg, Литекс) is a Bulgarian professional association football club based in Lovech, which currently competes in the Second League. The club was founded in 1921 as Hisarya Sports Club. The club's home ground is the Gradski Stadion ...

for six months. In his spell at Litex, Saidhodzha made 18 appearances and scored 6 goals.

AEP Paphos

In the summer of 2011 Saidhodzha signed with

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side

AEP Paphos AEP Paphos ( el, Αθλητική Ένωση Πάφος, ''Athlitiki Enosi Pafos''; "Athletic Union Paphos") was a Cypriot football club based in Paphos. The club was formed in 2000 after the merger of the two clubs of Paphos, APOP and Evagoras. ...

Etar Veliko Tarnovo

During the 2012/2013 A PFG season he played for Etar Veliko Tarnovo, captaining the team on occasions.

International career

Between 2006 and 2007 Saidhodzha played for the

Bulgaria national under-21 football team The Bulgaria national under-21 football team ( bg, Mладежки национален отбор на България по футбол) is considered to be the feeder team for the Bulgaria national football team. This team is for Bulgarian pl ...

Honours

Bulgarian Supercup The Bulgarian Supercup ( bg, Суперкупа на България) is the trophy won in a football match held between the football club that has won the Bulgarian first football division in the season that ended in the year of the match an ...

Runners-up 2009 * Bulgarian A PFG 2009-10

* Bulgarian A PFG 2008-09 Runners-up

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Saidhodzha, Dormushali Bulgarian footballers 1986 births Living people People from Asenovgrad Association football forwards Bulgarian expatriate footballers Botev Plovdiv players Randers FC players PFC CSKA Sofia players PFC Litex Lovech players FC Lokomotiv 1929 Sofia players First Professional Football League (Bulgaria) players Danish Superliga players Expatriate men's footballers in Denmark Bulgarian people of Turkish descent