Early Career
He began his professional career in 2006 at Almere City in the Eerste Divisie (the Dutch 2nd tier of Football). After two seasons with the club from Almere, where he scored 3 goals in 36 games, he moved to De Graafschap to play in the Eredivisie, the top flight of Dutch football in the summer of 2008. Assaidi spent just one year with the club, before moving to SC Heerenveen on the last day of the transfer window. The move was seen as surprising because Heerenveen had said that they were not planning to buy any new players, but the performance of Oussama at the beginning of the 2009–10 Eredivisie, scoring 5 goals in 5 games, meant that an exception was made to bring Assaidi to the club.
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