Virgile Boumelaha

Virgile Boumelaha (born 6 August, 1983 in Mulhouse) is a French association footballer of Algerian descent, he plays for FC Grenchen. Boumelaha began his career with FC Saint-Louis, he moved then to FC Basel and later to FC Sochaux-Montbéliard in 2002 but made two appearance for the club before joined to VfB Stuttgart in 2004. He failed to break into the first team there, also, signed for HJK Helsinki where he played 1 gam over the course of the ... more

Virgile Boumelaha (born 6 August, 1983 in Mulhouse) is a French association footballer of Algerian descent, he plays for FC Grenchen. Boumelaha began his career with FC Saint-Louis, he moved then to FC Basel and later to FC Sochaux-Montbéliard in 2002 but made two appearance for the club before joined to VfB Stuttgart in 2004. He failed to break into the first team there, also, signed for HJK Helsinki where he played 1 gam over the course of the 2005/06 season. He then moved to Switzerland with SR Delémont in January 2006 where play 19 games. After just two seasons with Delémont, he made his way to FC Gossau of the Challenge League, who he played 6 months between 18 December 2008 who left the team, he signed than in February 2009 with FC Grenchen. He is the younger brother of Olivier Boumelaha and the elder brother of Sabri Boumelaha. less