Nicolas Seube (born 11 August 1979) is a French professional
football
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manager and a former player who played as a
midfielder
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Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...
. He is the manager of club
Caen
Caen (, ; nrf, Kaem) is a commune in northwestern France. It is the prefecture of the department of Calvados. The city proper has 105,512 inhabitants (), while its functional urban area has 470,000,Toulouse
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, Seube began his football career for
Toulouse FC
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but never played in its first team. In 2001, he was transferred to
Stade Malherbe Caen
Stade Malherbe Caen (; commonly known as SM Caen, SMC, or simply Caen) is a French professional football team, based in the city of Caen in Normandy, that competes in the Ligue 2. The club was founded on 17 November 1913 by the merger of ''C ...
, where he played firstly as a fullback. From the 2008–09 season, he preferred to play as a defensive midfielder.
He spent his whole career with
Stade Malherbe Caen
Stade Malherbe Caen (; commonly known as SM Caen, SMC, or simply Caen) is a French professional football team, based in the city of Caen in Normandy, that competes in the Ligue 2. The club was founded on 17 November 1913 by the merger of ''C ...
, scoring 10 goals in 424 appearances (6 goals in 179 in Ligue 1) between 2001 and 2015. He was promoted in
Ligue 1
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with his club in 2004, 2007, 2010, and 2014. He captained the club from 2006 to 2012.
In 2013, he surpassed Anthony Deroin's record of appearances for Caen and became the club's all-time leader in appearances.
He retired in 2017.
Coaching career
On 29 November 2023, Seube was appointed head coach by