- Franck Ribéry
Franck Ribéry is a French football player who currently plays for FC Bayern München, and recently has been touted by the media as the successor to Zinedine Zidane as the star of the French national team, due to his increasingly impressive performances. Franck Ribéry's face suffered severe scarring when he was only 2 years old because of being involved, with his parents, in a serious car accident.
- Emmanuel Adebayor
Emmanuel Adebayor is a Togolese football player who currently plays for Arsenal. He had previously played for FC Metz and AS Monaco. Nicknamed "Sheyi", he is of Nigerian descent via his parents who were born in the Osun State in south-west Nigeria.
- Daniel Gygax
Daniel Gygax is a Swiss football midfielder who currently, as of February 2007, plays for FC Metz on loan from Lille OSC. He currently has 20 caps for the Swiss national team, and has been called up to the 2006 FIFA World Cup. He also participated at the 2004 European Football Championship.
- Didier Six
Didier Six (born August 21st, 1954 in Lille) is a French former footballer. He played as a winger and he earned 52 caps and scored 13 goals for the France national football team. He played in the 1978 FIFA World Cup and the 1982 FIFA World Cup, and was also part of the winning team of Euro 84. He also acquired Turkish citizenship in order to play as a neutral player at Galatasaray.
- Almamy Schuman Bah
Almamy Schuman Bah (born August 24, 1974) is a Guinean football player. He was part of the Guinean 2004 African Nations Cup team, who finished second in their group in the first round of competition, before losing in the quarter finals to Mali. In 2004, he went from FC Metz to Turkish Super League team Malatyaspor.
- Lionel Letizi
Lionel Letizi (born May 28, 1973 in Nice, France) is a French professional football goalkeeper currently with OGC Nice, joining the club in the most recent (January 2007) transfer window after being released by Scottish Premier League club Rangers.
- Louis Saha
Louis Laurent Saha is a French international footballer of Guadaloupian descent who plays for the English club, Manchester United. He made his English football debut on loan from F.C. Metz to Newcastle United in 1999, making 11 appearances and scoring one goal before returning to Metz. He was transferred to Fulham for £2.1million in 2000. During a spell of nearly four years at the club, …
- Alexandre Frutos
Alexandre Frutos is a professional football player currently playing for Brighton and Hove Albion. The left footed winger began his football career in France for Metz in 2000. In 2004, he joined french Ligue 1 side Châteauroux on loan before joining Brighton and Hove Albion the following season with French compatriot Sébastian Carole. Frutos made 36 appearances for Brighton in the Football League Championship during the 2005/2006 season, scoring 3 goals.
- David Klein
David Klein, born August 13, 1973 in Mulhouse, France is a French goalkeeper currently playing for Niort. His previous clubs include RC Strasbourg, FC Toulouse, AC Ajaccio and FC Metz.
- Oguchi Onyewu
Oguchialu Chilioke "Oguchi" Onyewu or "Gooch" (born May 13, 1982 in Washington, D.C.) is an American soccer player who plays in defense for Standard Liège and the United States. Onyewu's parents moved to the United States from Nigeria to attend Howard University in Washington, D.C. Onyewu has two brothers, Uche and Nonye, and two sisters, Chi-Chi and Ogechi. Growing up in Silver Spring and later Olney, Maryland, …
- Rigobert Song
Rigobert Song Bahanag (born July 1, 1976) is a Cameroonian football player who, as of 2007, is playing for Galatasaray.
- Babacar Gueye
Babacar Gueye (born 2 March, 1986 in Dakar) is a Senegalese football (soccer) striker. He currently plays for FC Metz.
- Guy Hellers
Guy Hellers is a Luxembourgian football manager and retired footballer. He is currently the head coach of the Luxembourg national team, having succeeded Dane Allan Simonsen in 2004. During his playing career, Hellers played overseas for FC Metz and Standard Liège, in addition to domestic Luxembourgian clubs. His entire coaching career has been spent with the Luxembourg Football Federation, …
- Carl Medjani
Carl Medjani (born May 15, 1985 in Lyon) is a French football player with Lorient. His parents are of Algerian origin. After spending his youth development years at Saint-Étienne he was signed by Liverpool's manager Gérard Houllier in August 2003. Liverpool beat off stiff competition from Premiership rivals Arsenal, Manchester United and German giants Bayern Munich to secure his services.
- Plamen Markov
Plamen Markov (born September 11, 1957 in Sevlievo) is a retired Bulgarian football player, currently working as a football manager. He played for Bulgaria national football team (24 caps/7 goals) and was a participant at the 1986 FIFA World Cup.In clubs, he played for CSKA Sofia (1975-1985), FC Metz (1985-1987) and Grenoble Foot (1987-1990). He has coached Bulgaria at the 2004 UEFA European Championship, PFC CSKA Sofia and PFC Vidima-Rakovski Sevlievo.
- Henk Vos
Hendricus ("Henk") Johannes Petrus Vos (born June 5, 1968 in Wouw, Noord-Brabant) is a football striker from the Netherlands, who started his professional career in the 1984-1985 season for RBC Roosendaal. Later on he played in Belgium and France. Currently he's back at RBC Roosendaal, for what propably is his last season.
- Dalian Atkinson
Dalian Atkinson is an English former footballer who played at centre-forward. Atkinson is probably most famous for scoring a memorable solo run and superb finish against Wimbledon which won a BBC Match of the Day Goal of the Season competition. He is also famous with Aston Villa fans for scoring in the 1994 League Cup final against Manchester United. He has also played for Fenerbahçe, Real Sociedad, Ipswich Town and Sheffield Wednesday.
- Patrick Mboma
Henri Patrick Mboma Dem is a former Cameroonian football striker, the all-time top goal-scorer for the Cameroonian national team. He started his domestic football career in 1993, and during his career played for Châteauroux, Paris Saint-Germain, FC Metz, Gamba Osaka, Cagliari, Parma, Sunderland,Al Ittihad, Tokyo Verdy and Vissel Kobe, before retiring on May 16, 2005. After first being capped for Cameroon in 1995, Mboma has scored 33 goals in 57 matches.
- Landry Bonnefoi
Landry Bonnefoi (born 20 September 1983 in Villeparisis) is a French footballer, who is the goalkeeper for Metz, on loan from Juventus. Bonnefoi was signed by Juventus from AS Cannes in 2001. Bonnefoi then spent two seasons playing for the Juventus youth team. On season 2003-04 he was on loan at Messina, but only played one game for the Sicilian side. He was brought back to the club in 2004. In 2006, wanting more appearances and home sick, …
- Richard Socrier
Richard Socrier (born March 28, 1979 in XIVe arrondissement, Paris) is a football striker from France. He plays for French Ligue 2 club Stade Brest 29 and has represented the Guadeloupe national football team.
- Jean-Louis Zanon
Jean-Louis Zanon (born December 23, 1961 in Metz) is a French former professional football (soccer) player. Zanon was a member of the French squad that won the gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.
- Kossi Agassa
Kossi Agassa is an Togolese football goalkeeper who currently, as of July 2006, plays for Hércules CF. He is a member of the national team, and was called up to the 2006 World Cup. Coming out of the group stage he had the most saves of any keeper with 36. He is known as "Magic Hands" because he once had surgery to fix a cartilage injury.
- Joseph Ujlaki
Joseph Ujlaki was a French footballer with Hungarian descent, one of the best strikers in Division 1 (189 goals) in the 1950's and 1960's.
- Luc Sonor
Luc Sonor is a former professional footballer in France and Scotland. His clubs include FC Metz, AS Monaco and Ayr United. An uncomprising defender, he won the French Cup three times, twice with AS Monaco and once with FC Metz. He also won the French Championship with Monaco where he played under Arsène Wenger. Capped by the French National Side on six occasions, including a famous 2-0 defeat to Scotland at Hampden Park, Glasgow on March 8, 1989.
- Eric Hassli
Eric Hassli is a French football striker currently playing for FC Zürich in the Swiss Super League.
- Ludovic Butelle
Ludovic Butelle is a French football goalkeeper, who currently plays for Real Valladolid on loan from Valencia CF. Standing at 1.88 metres, the French keeper is an exciting prospect, and much talked about in the Valencia camp as the possible replacement for the evergreen Santiago Cañizares. Although he is highly talented, Butelle is very inexperienced having just been promoted from the Valencia B team, after the injury of Juan Luis Mora.
- Sylvain Marchal
Sylvain Marchal is a French professional football (soccer) player, currently with FC Lorient. Marchal began his career at FC Metz, making his Ligue 1 debut on 10 March1999 in the 0-0 draw at AS Monaco. It was in the latter half of the 2001-02 season that he established himself as a regular in the Metz lineup, but fell out of favour by August 2004, when he was loaned out to Ligue 2 club LB Châteauroux.
- Abdelkrim Merry Krimau
Abdelkrim Merry Krimau (born 13 January, 1955 in Casablanca) is a Moroccan former professional football (soccer) player. He spent his entire professional career in France, reaching the 1978 UEFA Cup Final, with SC Bastia.He was also part of the Moroccan squad at the 1986 FIFA World Cup.
- Bernard Lama
Bernard Lama is a former French footballer born in the Indre-et-Loire "département" but originating from French Guiana who played as a goalkeeper, spending a number of years in goal for Lille and Paris Saint-Germain. He also played for Brest, Lens, Metz and West Ham. His debut with the France national team was on February 17, 1993 against Israel in a 4-0 victory, and he would go on to win 44 caps for his nation.
- Stéphane Morisot
Stéphane Morisot, born January 11, 1978 in Langres, France is a French defender currently playing for Niort. His previous clubs include FC Metz, Troyes AC and CS Sedan Ardennes.
- Sebastian Schemmel
Sebastian Schemmel (born 2 June 1975 in Nancy) is a French footballer who is currently without a club, although he has been linked with Sheffield Wednesday F.C, Norwich City and Ipswich Town. In his first season in the English Premiership (2001-02) he won 'Hammer of the Year' award (given to the most outstanding player at West Ham United, voted for by fans). The following season saw a downturn in form, perhaps caused by family problems.
- Moussa Latoundji
Moussa Latoundji (born August 13, 1978) is a Beninese football player who, as of 2004 was playing for FC Energie Cottbus. He was part of the Beninese 2004 African Nations Cup team, who finished bottom of their group in the first round of competition, thus failing to secure qualification for the quarter-finals.
- Jean-Philippe Rohr
Jean-Philippe Rohr (born December 23, 1961 in Metz) is a French former professional football (soccer) player. Rohr was a member of the French squad that won the gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.
- Eric Black
Eric Black (born 1 October, 1963 in Bellshill, Lanarkshire) is a former professional football player who played for Aberdeen and Metz. He played in attack. He won 2 international caps for Scotland. He was involved in possibly the best era ever for Aberdeen who, under the management of Sir Alex Ferguson, won the Cup Winners' Cup in 1983 with a 2-1 win over Real Madrid in which the then 19 year old Black scored the first goal.
- Szabolcs Huszti
Szabolcs Huszti is a Hungarian footballer who plays for German Bundesliga club Hannover 96. Huszti (his surname meaning to "come from Huszt [English: Khust]") began his professional career at the legendary Hungarian club Ferencváros. Following a solitary first team appearence, he was loaned out to fellow top flight team FC Sopron in December 2003. During this six-month stint, he impressed, scoring 6 goals in his 14 appearances.
- David Hodgson
David Hodgson, (born August 6 1960), was an English footballer who played for Middlesbrough, Liverpool, Norwich City, Sunderland and Sheffield Wednesday, as well as lower division clubs and teams in France, Japan, and Spain. He is currently without a job, after being sacked as Darlington manager on October 4 2006, where he was in his third spell in charge of the team.
- Franck Signorino
Franck Signorino is a French football defender, currently playing for French team Nantes. Its possible that Deportivo de La Coruña or Newcastle United sign this player in the next hours.
- Jeff Strasser
Jeff Strasser (born October 5, 1974 in Luxembourg City) is a Luxembourgian football defender. As one of the rare successful professional footballers from Luxembourg, he made a fairly successful career in French and German first divisions. After playing for French side FC Metz in Ligue 1 between 1993 and 1999, he moved to German Bundesliga side 1. FC Kaiserslautern and spent three seasons with the club before leaving it for Borussia Mönchengladbach in 2002.
- Dino Djiba
Dino Djiba (born 20 December, 1985 in Dakar) is a Senegalese-French football (soccer) midfielder. He currently plays for FC Metz.
- Pape Thiaw
Pape Thiaw is a Senegalese football player. He played for several clubs, including Lausanne Sports in Switzerland and Racing Strasbourg in France. He now plays in Spain for Lorca Deportiva on loan from Deportivo Alavés in Segunda División. He plays for Senegal national football team and was a participant at the 2002 FIFA World Cup.