- Ronaldinho
Ronaldo de Assís Moreira is a Brazilian footballer, also known as Ronaldinho "Gaúcho" (due to him being from the Rio Grande do Sul state of Brazil), or simply and most commonly Ronaldinho. He became a naturalized Spanish citizen in January 2007. Ronaldinho, meaning "little Ronaldo", is better known in Brazil by the nickname Ronaldinho "Gaúcho", in order to distinguish him from Ronaldo (already called Ronaldinho in Brazil).
- Paul Le Guen
Paul Le Guen (born March 1, 1964 in Pencran, Brittany) is a former French international footballer and a football manager. He is currently the manager of Paris Saint-Germain. Le Guen had a successful managerial career in France, most notably leading Olympique Lyonnais to three consecutive Ligue 1 titles. He has also managed Rennes and had a brief spell at Rangers. During his playing career he enjoyed successful stays at FC Nantes and Paris St.
- Raymond Domenech
Raymond Domenech (born January 24, 1952 in Lyon) is a former French football player and the current manager of the French national team. He is of partly Southern Catalan descent. His father fled Spain during the rule of Francisco Franco.
- Bernard Mendy
Bernard Mendy is a French Norman football player. He plays as a right wing defender for Paris Saint-Germain (PSG). A great fan of the PSG since his childhood, Mendy achieved his ambitions in 2000 when he joined PSG from SM Caen. Even though he had impressed a lot of people by his qualities during his first two seasons at PSG, he was loaned to Bolton Wanderers of England for a year, where he was appreciated for his offensive and speedy style.
- Jay-Jay Okocha
Augustine Azuka "Jay-Jay" Okocha (born August 14, 1973 in Enugu) is a Nigerian football midfielder who currently plays in the Qatar league for Qatar SC, a move that was completed in July 2006.
- Laurent Robert
Laurent Robert (born May 21, 1975 in Saint Benoît, Réunion, French Overseas Departments) is a French left winger who currently plays for Levante UD of the Spanish La Liga.
- Xavier Gravelaine
Xavier Gravelaine (born October 5, 1968 in Tours) is a French football manager and former football player, who played for many clubs in France and Europe and for France national team. He was sometimes seen as a mercenary because of the impressive number of teams he played for but often appreciated by supporters.After his retirement, he became a coach at FC Istres, but did not manage to save the team from the relegation.He is currently a consultant on France Televisions.
- Gabriel Heinze
Gabriel Iván Heinze is an Argentine footballer who currently plays for the English Premier League team Manchester United as a left-back, having transferred from Paris Saint-Germain in the summer of 2004. Heinze is a descendant of Volga German immigrants that settled in Argentina. His ever solid displays for Manchester United in his first season saw him win fans' Player of the Year award.
- David Rozehnal
David Rozehnal is a Czech football player who plays for the FA Premier League club Newcastle United. Rozehnal played for the Czech Republic at the Euro 2004 and all three of their games at the 2006 FIFA World Cup. At club level, he has represented Sigma Olomouc and Club Brugge. He won the title with Brugge in 2005. Rozehnal impressed at Paris Saint Germain in the 2006-07 season and was named as the club's Player of the Year.
- Didier Digard
Didier Digard (born 12 July 1986 in Gisors) is a French football midfielder for Paris Saint-Germain in French Ligue 1.
- Pierre Dréossi
Pierre Dréossi, born 12 October, 1959, in Roubaix, France, is a football manager, currently managing Stade Rennais.
- Yann Lachuer
Yann Lachuer is a footballer from France who currently plays as a midfielder for Troyes AC in the French Ligue 1. Lachuer began his career in the 1992-93 season with US Créteil-Lusitanos in Ligue 2 the second tier of French Football, making 31 appearances and scoring 5 goals. His displays brought him to the attention of AJ Auxerre, for whom he signed in 1993.
- Jean Djorkaeff
Jean "Tchouki" Djorkaeff is a retired French football player. He was born in the French commune of Charvieu, located in the "département" of Isère and is ethnically Kalmyk. He made his debut as a professional footballer playing for Lyon in a match against Limoges on December 28 1958. Though he started out as a striker, he was famous for his work as central defender and appeared in over 500 matches in the French football league.
- 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.
- Youri Djorkaeff
Youri Djorkaeff (born March 9, 1968 in Lyon) is a former French football (soccer) player, who played as a forward or as an attacking midfielder. He had fantastic technique, pace and fancy and effective dribbling. With the French national team, Djorkaeff won the 1998 FIFA World Cup and Euro 2000.
- Fabrice Pancrate
Fabrice Pancrate (born May 2, 1980 in Paris, France) is a French football player. He plays predominantly as an attacker, but has also been used as a midfielder, both right wing and on the position between the attack and the midfield. He started his professional career in Louhans-Cuiseaux in 1999 where he played 2 matches. Then went to Guingamp from 2000-02 and played 6 matches. From 2 August 2005 he went to Le Mans, and played 64 matches, and scored 8 goals.
- Vikash Dhorasoo
Vikash Dhorasoo is a French professional football midfielder, who is currently signed to Italian Serie A side Livorno. He has scored one goal in eighteen matches for the French national team, and he represented his country at the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany.
- Ray Wilkins
Raymond Colin 'Butch' Wilkins MBE (born September 14 1956 in Hillingdon, Middlesex) was an English football player, and now a highly respected coach and TV pundit and is the brother of Brighton & Hove Albion manager Dean Wilkins.
- George Weah
George Manneh Oppong Ousman Weah (born October 1, 1966 in Monrovia) is a Liberian politician and former football forward. He spent 14 years of his professional football career playing for clubs in France, Italy, and England, winning titles in two of the three countries. In 1995, he was named FIFA World Player of the Year, European Footballer of the Year, and African Footballer of the Year. He is commonly regarded as one of the greatest African footballers of all time.
- Pierre-Alain Frau
Pierre-Alain Frau is a French football player who plays as a forward. He is currently playing for PSG. He is also nicknamed 'PAF' in reference to the initials of his name. In the 2005/2006 season, he played RC Lens on loan from Olympique Lyonnais. For the new season, RC Lens wanted to keep him in Lens, but Frau has expressed desire to play for the capital club, hence the decision to move to PSG and the deal was finalised.
- Florian Maurice
Florian Maurice (born 20 January 1974) is a French former football player, who played as a striker, and most notably won the 1998 Coupe de France and Coupe de la Ligue with French team Paris Saint-Germain. He played six games and scored a single goal for the France national football team.
- 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.
- Sylvain Armand
Sylvain Armand is a French professional football (soccer) player in the left fullback position, who currently plays for Paris Saint-Germain in the French Ligue 1 championship. Born in Saint-Étienne, he started playing youth team football for AS Saint-Étienne in 1994. He moved to Clermont Foot in 1999, where he got his professional debut. In 2000, he changed to top-flight club FC Nantes Atlantique, with whom he won the 2001 Ligue 1 championship.
- Carlos Bueno
Carlos Bueno (born May 10, 1980 in Artigas) is a Uruguayan football player, who is under contract with PSG. Weighing in at 72 kg and standing 1,78 m tall, Bueno played for French side Paris Saint-Germain until 2006, when he was transferred to Sporting. Scored 4 goals (all of his league ones) in 20 minutes in an official match against Nacional.
- Stéphane Dalmat
Stéphane Dalmat is a professional French footballer. Dalmat plays in midfield and is a very versatile player who can occupy a variety of positions. He has good technique, good ball control and is pacey, which has often seen managers use him wide on the left of midfield. Despite being left footed, he is comfortable with either foot and also has a good engine and plenty of stamina. His first professional match was for Châteauroux against Cannes, …
- Sylvain Distin
Sylvain Distin (born December 16, 1977 in Bagnolet, France) is a French footballer who currently plays for Portsmouth, having joined them on a free transfer on 23 May 2007.
- Talal el Karkouri
Talal El Karkouri is a Moroccan professional footballer. He started his career in Raja Casablanca, and was discovered by French giants Paris Saint-Germain in 2000. He played in the UEFA Cup and UEFA Champions League, but failing to capture a regular place he was sent on loan to Aris in Greece and Sunderland in England. In the summer of 2004 he was bought by Charlton Athletic for £1m. El Karkouri has been capped 31 times and scored 1 goal for Morocco.
- Vincent Fernandez
Vincent Fernandez is a French football goalkeeper. Trained by Paris Saint-Germain, he was lent to LB Châteauroux to experience first-team football. When he returned to Paris Saint-Germain, he became sub for Bernard Lama, and then Dominique Casagrande. The 1997-1998 season was one of his best, because even though he did not play much in the championship, he still won two cups. In 1998 Sochaux, who had recently reached Ligue 1, offered him a place, …
- Safet Sušić
Safet "Pape" Sušić is a football coach and former player from Bosnia and Herzegovina. Sušić began his career in with the Krivaja club in Zavidovići. As a young man he was transferred to FK Sarajevo where he played 600 games and scored 400 goals. During the 1979/80 season he led the Yugoslavian league with 21 goals. In 1979 he was honoured as the best football player in Yugoslavia and as the best athlete of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- Mario Yepes
Mario Alberto Yepes Díaz is a Colombian football player, currently playing as a central defender for Paris Saint-Germain. When Mario Yepes started his career with Cortulua, he was playing as a forward before Cortulua's coach converted him to a libero (sweeper). He really started his career in the club of the city where he was born when he was transferred to Deportivo Cali from Cortulua in 1998. He won two Colombian championships with Deportivo Cali.
- Peter Luccin
Peter Bernard Luccin is French football player who currently plays for Atlético Madrid of the Spanish La Liga. His usual demarcation is central midfielder.
- Jimmy Algerino
Jimmy Algerino, (born 28 October, 1971, in Toulouse, France) is a football former defender. He most notably played for Paris SG for 5 seasons and then had a short spell in Italy at S.S.C. Venezia.
- Souleymane Bamba
Souleymane Bamba is a French-Ivorian professional footballer currently playing for Scottish Premier League club Dunfermline Athletic. Nicknamed Sol, Bamba began his career with French Ligue 1 club Paris Saint Germain at the age of 14. Despite impressing for the youth and B teams, he failed to feature for the first team. He did however make his mark on the international stage, featuring in the 2005 African Youth Championship for his parent’s home land Côte d'Ivoire.
- Dominique Casagrande
Dominique Casagrande (born 8 may, 1971 in L'Union, Haute-Garonne) is a French football retired goalkeeper.
- Édouard Cissé
Édouard Cissé is a french football player who plays for Beşiktaş J.K. in Super League, the top league in Turkish football. He was born in Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, southwest France and wears the number eight shirt for PSG. He is a midfielder, 1.86 metres tall. He previously played for Monaco in France and West Ham in the English Premiership.
- Nicolas Anelka
Nicolas Anelka, or Abdul-Salam Bilal (born March 14, 1979 in Versailles, France) is a French footballer, preferring to play in the forward position. He plays for Bolton Wanderers in the Premier League. He won the 1998-99 PFA Young Player of the Year award after making his name at Arsenal, and has since changed clubs many times. Anelka is the son of two parents from Martinique, Marguerite and Jean-Philippe, who emigrated to Metropolitan France in 1974.
- Filipe Teixeira
Filipe de Andrade Teixeira (born October 2 1980 in Paris, France) is a Portuguese footballer. He currently plays with West Bromwich Albion in the Football League Championship. Teixeira started his career with Felgueiras in the Portuguese Third Division after good showings with the Third Division club. He then sealed a deal with Ligue 1 Club Istres after a good season, …
- Igor Yanovskiy
Igor Yanovskiy (born 3 August, 1974 in Vladikavkaz) is a retired Russian football player. He played for a few clubs, including Alania Vladikavkaz, Paris Saint-Germain (France), CSKA Moscow and now plays for LB Châteauroux (France). He played for Russia national football team and was a participant at the Euro 1996. Yanovskiy announced his retirement on 27 July 2006
- Carlos Bianchi
Carlos Bianchi is a former football (soccer) player and coach. Bianchi was top goalscorer of the French league for five years, and scored 385 goals in 546 first division matches (in Argentina and France). As a coach, he obtained 7 Argentine league titles and 8 international titles. He is also Boca Juniors' most successful coach with 8 titles overall. Nevertheless, he has never been able to reproduce with an important European team the successes he had in Argentina.
- Michel Bensoussan
Michel Bensoussan (born January 5, 1954 in Pau) is a French former professional football (soccer) player. Bensoussan was a member of the French squad that won the gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.