Malik Hamadache
Malik Hamadache is a French-Algerian rugby union player who currently plays for Section Paloise and is an Algeria national [rugby union team|Algerian] international. He plays as a Rugby [union positions#Prop|prop].
Playing career
Malik Hamadache was born in Avignon in a family where the practice of rugby is a tradition. His father Boualem, played as a prop for the local club of Sorgues and his elder brother, Laïd, plays Monteux in Fédérale 2, He came through the academy of the Bourgoin-Jallieu and made his debut in the Fédérale 2 aged 18. He is a member of the rugby union team">Rugby football">rugby union team which played a friendly match against pro team, in 2008, before leaving Marseille to join Rugby [Club Stade Phocéen|Stade Phocéen] in Fédérale 1. He remained there for two seasons, playing in the same team as Jonah Lomu. In 2009, he was again selected by Algeria to play a match against the academy squad of Stade Français, which his team won 19–17. In 2010, he signed with the Racing club [de l'agglomération de Cergy-Pontoise|Cergy Pontoise] to play in Fédérale 1. When the team was relegated at the end of the 2010–11 season, he joined the Dijon.
Algeria
Hamadache got his first international cap for Algeria on 26 October 2010 against in the 2010 CAR Development Trophy in Cairo, Egypt.