Personal information | |||
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Full name | Maxence Guy Lacroix [1] | ||
Date of birth | [2] | 6 April 2000||
Place of birth | Villeneuve-Saint-Georges, France | ||
Height | 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) [3] | ||
Position(s) | Centre-back | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | VfL Wolfsburg | ||
Number | 4 | ||
Youth career | |||
2006–2008 | Limeyrat | ||
2008–2011 | Montignacoise | ||
2011–2012 | FCTLF | ||
2012–2015 | Trélissac | ||
2015–2017 | Sochaux | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2017–2019 | Sochaux II | 13 | (0) |
2018–2020 | Sochaux | 27 | (0) |
2020– | VfL Wolfsburg | 85 | (2) |
International career‡ | |||
2016 | France U16 | 1 | (0) |
2017 | France U17 | 4 | (0) |
2017 | France U18 | 5 | (0) |
2019 | France U20 | 2 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 2 September 2023 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 25 January 2023 |
Maxence Guy Lacroix (born 6 April 2000) is a French professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Bundesliga club VfL Wolfsburg.
On 21 August 2017, Lacroix signed his first professional contract with FC Sochaux-Montbéliard. [4] Lacroix made his professional debut with Sochaux in a 1–0 Ligue 2 win over FC Lorient on 22 December 2018. [5]
On 25 August 2020, Lacroix joined VfL Wolfsburg on a four-year deal. [6] [7] On 27 February 2021, he scored his first Bundesliga goal in a 2–0 win over Hertha BSC. [8]
Lacroix is a youth international for France, and represented the France U17s at the 2017 UEFA European Under-17 Championship and 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup. [9]
Lacroix was born in Villeneuve-Saint-Georges, and his father is a nurse and his mother a doctor. He is of Guadeloupean and Malagasy descent through his father and mother. [10]
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