Abdisalam Ibrahim

Abdisalam Abdulkadir Ibrahim (born 1 May 1991) is a Norwegian-Somalian footballer who plays as a midfielder for Italian club Bisceglie.

Club Career

Early career

Born in Somalia, Ibrahim moved to Norway in 1998. He began his football career as a youth in Norway with Oyer-Tretten before eventually moving to Lorenskog, where he played for Fjellhamar. He got his debut for Fjellhamar's senior team in 2006.

He transferred to Manchester City effective from 1 July 2007. In the spring of 2008, he was on the winning team in the FA Youth Cup final, as Manchester City beat Chelsea 4–2 on aggregate.

Ibrahim played as a midfielder. At the age of 18, his style of play was compared by some at the club to then teammate Patrick Vieira.

Ibrahim made his senior debut starting on 24 January 2010, in the FA Cup game against Scunthorpe United. He was on the bench in the 3–1 defeat to Manchester United in the League Cup semi-final at Old Trafford, as well as the match against Portsmouth at Eastlands on 31 January. On 21 February 2010, he made his Premier League debut as a substitute for Manchester City in a 0–0 draw against Liverpool. Ibrahim was rewarded with a new contract on 7 April 2010, which tied him to the club until 2014. Ibrahim made his League Cup debut and first starting appearance at West Brom on Wednesday, 22 September 2010.

On 14 January 2011, it was announced that he would join Scunthorpe United on loan for one month, this loan period subsequently being extended in mid-February to the end of the season.

On 31 July 2011, it was announced that he would join Dutch Eredivisie side NEC on a season-long loan deal. Ibrahim featured in two cup matches and had eight Eredivisie spells scoring one goal before the loan deal was terminated on 22 March on mutual consent because Ibrahim had trouble with his role on the bench for most of the season.

Ibrahim spent the second half of the 2012 season on loan with Stromsgodset, before he again was on six-month loa

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