Nolan Roux (born 1 March 1988) is a French professional

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who plays as a striker for

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club

Châteauroux Châteauroux (; ; oc, Chasteurós) is the capital city of the French department of Indre, central France and the second-largest town in the province of Berry, after Bourges. Its residents are called ''Castelroussins'' () in French. Climate Ch ...

. He is a former French youth international, having previously represented the France under-21 team.

Club career

Roux scored 15 goals in 34 games for

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in Ligue 2 during the 2009–2010 season and 6 goals in 28 games in

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during the 2010–11 season. On 21 January 2012, he joined defending champions

Lille Lille ( , ; nl, Rijsel ; pcd, Lile; vls, Rysel) is a city in the northern part of France, in French Flanders. On the river Deûle, near France's border with Belgium, it is the capital of the Hauts-de-France Regions of France, region, the Pref ...

from Brest on a four-and-a-half year deal. In 2015, Roux left Lille to sign a three-year deal with

side

Saint-Étienne Saint-Étienne (; frp, Sant-Etiève; oc, Sant Estève, ) is a city and the prefecture of the Loire department in eastern-central France, in the Massif Central, southwest of Lyon in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. Saint-Étienne is the t ...

. On 20 July 2017, he signed a three-year deal to join league rivals

Metz Metz ( , , lat, Divodurum Mediomatricorum, then ) is a city in northeast France located at the confluence of the Moselle and the Seille rivers. Metz is the prefecture of the Moselle department and the seat of the parliament of the Grand E ...

for an undisclosed fee. In the

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season, Roux scored 15 goals for Metz despite the club finishing last and being relegated to Ligue 2. On 19 June 2018, Roux signed a two-year deal to join

Guingamp Guingamp (; ) is a commune in the Côtes-d'Armor department in Brittany in northwestern France. With a population of 6,895 as of 2017, Guingamp is one of the smallest towns in Europe to have a top-tier professional football team: En Avant Guinga ...

International career

Roux was a French youth international having made his debut with the under-21 team on 2 March 2010. He has scored twice in two appearances.

Personal life

Nolan is the son of former professional footballer

Bruno Roux Bruno Roux (born 1 July 1963) is a French Association football, football manager and former professional player who played as a Forward (association football), forward. As of the 2021–22 season, he is the head coach of Départemental 1 club US ...

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