Boumedienne Allam

Boumedienne Allam

Date of birth	(1979-11-19) 19 November 1979 (age 44)
Place of birth	Avignon
Height	1.95 m (6 ft 5 in)
Weight	110 kg (17 st 5 lb)
Rugby union career
Position(s) Number eight Senior career Years Team Apps (Points) 1994–1996 1996–1997 1997–2000 2000–2003 2003–2004 2004–2005 2005–2006 2006–2008 2008–2009 2009–2010 2010–2012 2012– Apt Cavaillon RC Toulon RC Narbonne Tarbes Pyrénées Rugby FC Auch FC Barcelona Blagnac SCR Doncaster Knights Le Bugue AC AS Mâcon () International career Years Team Apps (Points) 2007-   Algeria

Boumedienne Allam (born Avignon, 19 November 1979) is a French and Algerian rugby union player. He plays as a number eight.

After his young years at Apt (1994–1996) and Cavaillon (1996–1997), he became a famous figure as a RC Toulon player (1997–2000), where he won the Cup of France Frantz Reichel, in 1998. He moved to RC Narbonne (2000–2003), and latter to Tarbes Pyrénées Rugby (2003–2004) and to FC Auch (2004–2005). After a season at FC Barcelona, in Spain (2005–2006), he moved back to France, where he played for Blagnac SCR. ^[1] He played for the Doncaster Knights, in England, in 2008/09. He returned to France, playing for Le Bugue AC, in 2009/10. He played for AS Mâcon, from 2010/11 to 2011/12, and currently plays for AGDE, since the 2012/13 season.

International career

Allam was capped for the France U-21 squad, winning the Six Nations Tournament of that category with them in 2000. A few years later, Allam switched alliance and chose the country of his grandparents to represent in senior fixtures. He was a member of the historical unofficial first game of Algeria, on 24 February 2007, as well as the official first match for Algeria on 18 December since creating the Algerian rugby federation a month earlier. This significant match was also the first rugby international played on Algerian soil which was televised.

References

1. "Profile". L'Équipe. France. Retrieved 30 January 2010.^{[ dead link ]}