Career
In April 2007, he was banned three matches and fined 5000 RMB for misconduct for showing "All Referee of Chinese Super League were cheat." on his T-shirt after the match against Henan Jianye, to revenge the serious mistake of referee on the match Xiamen Lanshi against Shanghai Shenhua. Melkam transferred to in 2010. He made his China League One debut for Guangzhou against Beijing Bureau International du Travail or ILO on 3 April.
He finished runner up at the 1999 African Youth Championship and quarter-finalist at 1999 Fédération internationale de football association World Youth Championship.
The tie marked the debut of the then-Hansa Rostock defender Melkam, who narrowly missed out on a place in Nigeria"s 2004 Cup of Nations squad.