BIOGRAPHY

Born on September 15, 1985 in Béziers, Karim is a French rugby union player playing as a right pillar. He measures 1.80 cm for 125 kg, Karim started rugby in UNSS, at the Marcel Pagnol college in Sérignan, during the year 1998.
Gradually soaking up the atmosphere, moral values and the spirit of rugby. He chose to take a license in his native village in Villeneuve les Béziers.
Gradually blossoming with his friends, as well as in sports studies, Karim fully lives his passion for sport.
Failing to lay off the following year, Karim joined the Sérignan club before returning to Villeneuve les Béziers.
Jack-of-all-trades, sporty multitasker.
Karim exercises with passion in different sports fields. Swimming, judo, basketball.
During the year 2000, he combines swimming, boxing, and rugby in the same year.
With his appetite for sport and beginning to make a name for himself in the region, Karim was surveyed by recruiting sergeants from prestigious clubs in the region.
ASBH, MHR, NCR.
The regret Robert Labatut, a talent scout from Stade Toulousains, had come in person to ask for it.
Privileging the proximity Karim chose to commit to the ASBH from the 2000 season.
Under the advice of the teaching team at the time, he had to put an end to his other sports activities to devote himself fully to rugby.
With four years in Biterroises, Karim renounces the Paloise siren who came to make eyes at him during the year 2004, he finally remains one more year before committing to the Section Paloise for the 2005 season.
Trained in Pau at the Paloise Section during the 2005-2006 season, Karim played his first European Challenge matches against Parma and London Irish.
On December 23, 2005 Karim played his first Top16 match against Castres Olympique, in 2006 he chained a few matches,
Karim is part of this talented and hardworking golden generation, the Section Paloise reputed for its training center, does not hesitate to launch promising young people.
After a nightmarish season on several levels, the Section Paloise and relegate to ProD2.
Wishing to relaunch with it's young, the Béarnais club is considering a sports reconstruction project with local young people, and the acquisition of French and foreign talent.
Asking for a return to L'ASBH after having chained a few Top16 matches, Karim chose to stay in Béarn in Pau.
Relegated to ProD2, the Paloise Section offered him his first professional contract, Karim played around fifteen league matches during the 2006-2007 ProD2 season, then twenty-two the following season and twenty in 2008-2009.
Following a full 2009-2010 season with Section Paloise, twenty-four games, three tries.
Karim is courted by several Top14 clubs.
He finally chooses SU Agen, back in the elite of French Rugby. He took part in seventeen Top14 matches and eight in the European challenge.
Lacking playing time, it was in ProD2, in Aix-en-Provence at PARC, that he chose to bounce back for the 2011-2012 season where he played twenty-five games and scored two tries.
Karim finds the elite by committing to FC Grenoble for the 2012-2013 season. In the league, he played ten games and scored a try, also participating in six European challenge matches.
He joined US Carcassonne in July 2013. He played eighteen matches during the 2013-2014 ProD2 season, then fifteen matches and scored two tries the following season. After two seasons in Carcassonne, he joined Lyon, the LOU, for an ambitious short-term project.
The club finished at the top of the 2015-2016 ProD2 Championship, it ended up as French Prod2 champion with Lyon OU after a full season, thus returning to the Top14 in February 2016, then signing for the Béziers club.
He will remain there for three seasons, accumulating 25 games.
Subsequently, Karim committed to VRDR, a merger of the club of Valence and Romans-sur-Isère, to help the club to settle permanently in the French professional landscape.
The club being relegated to the lower floor, he chose to take a step back, studying several sports projects and other challenges.
He then joined the BSCR on the outskirts of Toulouse, in the Blagnac club in the brand new division created by the French Rugby Federation.
With an atypical background, an experienced player with a strong temperament, reputable and respected, Karim is an insurance in the delicate position of right pillars.
With a significant number of matches played, more than two hundred and forty in all divisions over fifteen years.
Karim is a guarantee of experience and guarantee in his position, French player of Algerian origin solicited by the FAR Algerian Rugby Federation.
Karim never responded to the requests.