Olivier Boumelaha
FullnameOlivier Hakim Boumelaha
Height1.80 m
Birth date27 May 1981 (age 45)
Birth placeMulhouse, France
PositionStriker
Years 11998–2000
Years 22000–2001
Years 32001–2002
Years 42002–2003
Years 52003–2004
Years 62004–2005
Years 72005–2006
Years 82006–2007
Years 92007–2008
Years 102008
Years 112011
Clubs 1FC Basel
Clubs 2FC St. Gallen
Clubs 3Etoile Carouge FC
Clubs 4FC St. Gallen
Clubs 5FC La Chaux-de-Fonds
Clubs 6Al-Ittihad
Clubs 7IFK Mariehamn
Clubs 8PP-70
Clubs 9Al Ahli
Clubs 10FC Gossau
Clubs 11TOT FC
Caps 11
Goals 10
Caps 22
Goals 20
Caps 31
Goals 30
Caps 48
Goals 41
Caps 514
Goals 54
Caps 615
Goals 67
Caps 75
Goals 72
Caps 89
Goals 87
Caps 910
Goals 95
Caps 109
Goals 104
Pcupdate13:58, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

Olivier Hakim Boumelaha (born 27 May 1981) is a French former footballer who played as a striker. He last played for FC Gossau in the Swiss Challenge League. He is the older brother of Virgile Boumelaha and Sabri Boumelaha.

Career

Boumelaha began his career with FC Basel in 1998 but made only one appearance for the club before moving on to FC St. Gallen in 2000. He failed to break into the first team there, also, and after a short spell at Etoile Carouge FC, he signed for FC La Chaux-de-Fonds where he played 14 games over the course of the 2004–05 season. He then moved to the United Arab Emirates with Al-Ittihad in July 2004 where he scored seven goals in just 15 appearances. This caught the eye of many European clubs and IFK Mariehamn of the Finnish Veikkausliiga acquired his services the next season. He scored twice in five matches there, but never broke into the starting XI and dropped down to the Ykkönen (Finland's second division) with Tampereen Peli-Pojat -70 in 2006. He scored goals despite a relatively low number of appearances at PP-70 but returned to the Middle East during the Summer of 2007, this time with Al Ahli of Bahrain. After just one season with The Eagles, he made his way back to Switzerland with FC Gossau of the Challenge League, he left on 18 December 2008 Gossau and will go to Dubai.[1]

References

  1. ^ "Toggenburger Tagblatt Online – Gossau verlängert auslaufende Verträge nicht". Archived from the original on 7 July 2011. Retrieved 14 January 2009.