Salim Kerkar (born 4 August 1987) is a

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby le ...

who plays for

Kuwaiti Division One The Kuwaiti Division One is a second-tier professional Kuwaiti football league. Winners of the league are promoted to the Kuwait Premier League. Kuwaiti Division One was introduced for the 2006–07 season, when the bottom 6 clubs in the Premier ...

club

Burgan SC Burgan Sports Club ( ar, نادي برقان الرياضي ) is a professional sports club best known for its football team. Based in Al Farwaniyah, the club competes in the Kuwaiti Division One. History 2014–15 inaugural season Burgan SC ...

. Kerkar has previously played for

Gueugnon Gueugnon () is a commune in the Saône-et-Loire department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France. Population Economy The primary industry in the town is a stainless-steel factory run by Aperam. A huge part of Gueugnon ...

Calais Calais ( , , traditionally , ) is a port city in the Pas-de-Calais department, of which it is a subprefecture. Although Calais is by far the largest city in Pas-de-Calais, the department's prefecture is its third-largest city of Arras. Th ...

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Charlton Athletic Charlton Athletic Football Club is an English professional football club based in Charlton, south-east London, which compete in . Their home ground is The Valley, where the club have played since 1919. They have also played at The Mount in C ...

Beroe Stara Zagora Beroe ( bg, Берое) is a Bulgarian professional association football club based in Stara Zagora, that competes in the First League, the top division of the Bulgarian football league system. The club was founded in 1916 under the name ''Vere ...

and Vereya.

Club career

On 8 September 2006, Kerkar made his professional debut, starting for

FC Gueugnon Football Club Gueugnonnais (commonly called Gueugnon ) is a French association football club based in Gueugnon, Burgundy. The club was formed in 1940 and plays its home matches at the Stade Jean Laville located within the city. The club has ...

in a

Ligue 2 Ligue 2 (, League 2), also known as Ligue 2 BKT due to sponsor (commercial), sponsorship by Balkrishna Industries, is a French professional football league. The league serves as the second division of French football and is one of two divisions ...

game against

Tours FC Tours Football Club, commonly referred to as simply Tours (), is a French association football club based in Tours, the capital city of the Indre-et-Loire department. The club was formed in 1919 and currently play at the fifth level of French ...

. On 5 May 2007, he signed his first professional contract with

. On 17 August 2010, Kerkar went on trial with

Scottish Premier League The Scottish Premier League (SPL) was the top level league competition for professional football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football' ...

side

, scoring a goal in a 5–0 friendly over

Partick Thistle Partick Thistle Football Club are a professional association football, football club from Glasgow, Scotland. Despite their name, the club are based at Firhill Stadium in the Maryhill area of the city, and have not played in Partick since 1908. ...

. On 28 October, Rangers boss Walter Smith announced that Kerkar was no longer a target as his old club

were demanding up to €360,000 compensation.

then retracted their demand for compensation and instead opted for a sell-on clause, allowing Kerkar to sign for the Ibrox club. He made his debut as a substitute in the 5-0 win against

Motherwell Motherwell ( sco, Mitherwall, gd, Tobar na Màthar) is a town and former burgh in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, south east of Glasgow. It has a population of around 32,120. Historically in the parish of Dalziel and part of Lanarks ...

at Fir Park on 30 April 2011. He scored his first goal for Rangers in the Scottish Cup against Arbroath on 8 January 2012, celebrating with a flute playing imitation in the mould of Gazza. On 18 July 2012, Kerkar went on trial with

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side Charlton. He signed for Charlton on 1 August 2012. He was released by Charlton at the end of the

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season. After seven months without club, Kerkar signed with Bulgarian side

on 13 February 2014. On 20 October 2016, following a trial period, Kerkar signed a one-year contract with the other club from

Stara Zagora Stara Zagora ( bg, Стара Загора, ) is the sixth-largest city in Bulgaria, and the administrative capital of the homonymous Stara Zagora Province. Name The name comes from the Slavic root ''star'' ("old") and the name of the medieva ...

Vereya.

International career

In 2014, Algeria's manager

Christian Gourcuff Christian Jean Gourcuff (born 5 April 1955) is a French professional Manager (association football), football manager and former Football player, player who was most recently the manager of Ligue 1 club FC Nantes, Nantes. Club career During his ...

announced that he wanted Salim to play for Algeria, due to his Algerian family background.

Personal life

Kerkar is the younger brother of former Algerian international footballer Karim Kerkar.

Honours

Rangers *

(1):

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* Scottish League Cup (1):

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Kerkar, Salim 1987 births Living people People from Givors Sportspeople from Lyon Metropolis Association football midfielders Association football wingers Algerian footballers French footballers FC Gueugnon players French sportspeople of Algerian descent Ligue 2 players Scottish Premier League players English Football League players First Professional Football League (Bulgaria) players Calais RUFC players Rangers F.C. players Charlton Athletic F.C. players PFC Beroe Stara Zagora players FC Vereya players French expatriate footballers Expatriate footballers in Scotland Algerian expatriates in the United Kingdom Expatriate footballers in England Expatriate footballers in Bulgaria Footballers from Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes