# Dani Kiki

Dani Ayman Kiki (Bulgarian: Дани Айман Кики; born 8 January 1988) is a retired Bulgarian professional footballer, who played as a midfielder. He is of Syrian Kurdish descent, as his father is from Syria.

## Career
### Early career

Kiki started to play football in the private junior football academy Botev 2002 in Plovdiv. His first coach was Marin Bakalov. In 2004, at the age of 16, he went to Spartak Plovdiv.

### Lokomotiv Plovdiv

In 2006, only 18 years old, Dani Kiki signed his first professional contract with Lokomotiv Plovdiv.
Kiki made his official debut in the Bulgarian first division in a match against Lokomotiv Sofia on 17 September 2006 as a 77th-minute substitute and played for 13 minutes. The result of the match was a 0:2 loss for The Smurfs.
Six days later, Kiki scored his first goal for Lokomotiv Plovdiv against PFC Chernomorets Burgas Sofia. He netted a goal in the 90th minute. The result of the match was a 6:0 win for Loko.
On 31 October 2009, he was involved in a brawl, along with several other players, following his team's 0-1 loss to Botev Plovdiv.

### Chernomorets Burgas

After a five-year spell at Lauta and some problems with the club, Kiki was released from Lokomotiv Plovdiv. He relocated to Burgas, to sign a contract with Chernomorets Burgas. He was released in January 2012.

### Return to Lokomotiv Plovdiv

On 29 October 2016 he scored the winning goal for Lokomotiv Plovdiv in the game against CSKA Sofia.

### Cherno More Varna

On 16 January 2018 Kiki joined Cherno More Varna after he had left Lokomotiv Plovdiv in the end of 2017.

### Krumovgrad

In July 2021, Kiki joined Levski Krumovgrad.

## Career statistics

    As of 1 July 2019
| Club performance | Club performance | Club performance | League | League | Cup | Cup | Continental | Continental | Other | Other | Total | Total |
| Club | League | Season | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| Lokomotiv Plovdiv | A Group | 2006–07 | 17 | 2 | 4 | 2 | – | – | – | – | 21 | 4 |
| Lokomotiv Plovdiv | A Group | 2007–08 | 24 | 0 | 2 | 0 | – | – | – | – | 26 | 0 |
| Lokomotiv Plovdiv | A Group | 2008–09 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 0 | – | – | – | – | 10 | 3 |
| Lokomotiv Plovdiv | A Group | 2009–10 | 19 | 2 | 0 | 0 | – | – | – | – | 19 | 2 |
| Lokomotiv Plovdiv | A Group | 2010–11 | 14 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | – | – | – | 15 | 0 |
| Chernomorets Burgas | A Group | 2011–12 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | – | – | 2 | 0 |
| Rakovski | V AFG | 2011–12 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – | – | – | – | 4 | 1 |
| Lokomotiv Sofia | A Group | 2012–13 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | – | – | 2 | 0 |
| Lokomotiv Plovdiv | A Group | 2013–14 | 22 | 2 | 4 | 0 | – | – | – | – | 26 | 2 |
| Lokomotiv Plovdiv | A Group | 2014–15 | 24 | 3 | 4 | 0 | – | – | – | – | 27 | 3 |
| Lokomotiv Plovdiv | A Group | 2015–16 | 21 | 3 | 2 | 0 | – | – | – | – | 23 | 3 |
| Lokomotiv Plovdiv | First League | 2016–17 | 33 | 6 | 2 | 0 | – | – | – | – | 35 | 6 |
| Lokomotiv Plovdiv | First League | 2017–18 | 13 | 2 | 1 | 0 | – | – | – | – | 14 | 2 |
| Cherno More | First League | 2017–18 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – | – | – | – | 9 | 1 |
| Cherno More | First League | 2018–19 | 22 | 4 | 1 | 0 | – | – | – | – | 23 | 4 |
| Cherno More | First League | 2019–20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | – | – | 0 | 0 |
| Career total | Career total | Career total | 236 | 29 | 21 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 257 | 31 |
* ↑ Includes Bulgarian Supercup matches.

## International career

In November 2007 of that time the Bulgarian national under-21 coach Aleksandar Stankov called Kiki up for Bulgaria national under-21 football team for a matches with England U21 and Ireland U21. On 16 November 2007, on stadium:mk in Milton Keynes he made his official debut for Bulgaria U21 against England U21. For Bulgaria U21, Kiki was capped five times.