Hicham Mahdoufi (born 5 August 1983, in

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) is a professional

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Career

Mahdoufi was born in

. During his teenage years, he began playing for his local club,

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. In summer 2007, a number of

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an clubs began taking an interest in him. In July, Mahdoufi trained with

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and on was loaned out to the club. Having played several matches for the second team, he failed to secure a place in the first team, and on August 30, Dynamo announced that Mahdoufi would be loaned to

FC Metalist Kharkiv Football Club Metalist Kharkiv ( uk, Футбо́льний Клуб Металі́ст Ха́рків ) is a Ukrainian football club based in Kharkiv that plays in the Ukrainian First League during the 2021–22 season. It was revived 5 years ...

. He scored his first goal for Metalist against Everton in the

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on 4 October 2007. On 17 June 2010 resigned his contract with his youthclub

International career

Mahdoufi is also a member of the

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