Olivier Boumelaha

Olivier Boumelaha
Personal information
Full name	Olivier Hakim Boumelaha
Date of birth	27 May 1981 (age 43)
Place of birth	Mulhouse, France
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s)	Striker
Senior career*
Years	Team
1998–2000	FC Basel
2000–2001	FC St. Gallen
2001–2002	Etoile Carouge FC
2002–2003	FC St. Gallen
2003–2004	FC La Chaux-de-Fonds
2004–2005	Al-Ittihad
2005–2006	IFK Mariehamn
2006–2007	PP-70
2007–2008	Al Ahli
2008	FC Gossau
2011	TOT FC
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 13:58, 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

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

External links

Stats at Swiss Football League
Olivier Boumelaha at WorldFootball.net

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

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