Philippe Dufour

Goalkeeper - Chamois Niortais U18
19 Sep 2027
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Marked for Philippe Dufour

11 Edition

The Chamois Niortais Herald

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad12 Oct 2026

Philippe Dufour breaks a bone — 16 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 16 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Christophe Marie in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Chamois Niortais this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings12 Oct 2026

Marcel André was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 21. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Match10 Oct 2026

A bad afternoon for Chamois Niortais against Nimes

0‑2 to Nimes, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

The dugout12 Oct 2026

The manager makes an example of Roger Caron

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Words at Chamois Niortais training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Karl Madianga is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Julien Muller stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Julien Muller and Chamois Niortais agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

The dugout12 Oct 2026

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑2 Guillaume Dufour left the room before anybody could ask which.

Looking ahead12 Oct 2026

Chamois Niortais take on the side everybody is chasing

AS Nancy arrive as leaders. A side at the top is beaten roughly once a month, and the club that does it gets a week it remembers for a year.

In brief

Back issues
10 Edition

The Chamois Niortais Herald

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad5 Oct 2026

23 days out for Philippe Dufour after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Chamois Niortais will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Squad5 Oct 2026

A one-man rearguard from Roger Caron

There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Player ratings5 Oct 2026

Nobody could get near Christophe Marie

Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market5 Oct 2026

Christophe Marie raises the bar for Chamois Niortais

“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Chamois Niortais heard it as anything else.

Squad5 Oct 2026

A falling-out at Chamois Niortais

Christophe Marie and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Hervé Roger falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Player ratings5 Oct 2026

Ninety minutes of Nicolas Aubry at his very best

Marked 8.00. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Chamois Niortais.

The dugout5 Oct 2026

Reda Rabeï gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Match3 Oct 2026

Chamois Niortais share the spoils with Valenciennes

A 2‑2 draw with Valenciennes leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

In brief

9 Edition

The Chamois Niortais Herald

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad28 Sep 2026

A fracture rules Philippe Dufour out for 31 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Chamois Niortais will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Player ratings28 Sep 2026

David Collet runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 28. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Words exchanged at Chamois Niortais

Christophe Marie and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Match26 Sep 2026

Clermont Foot take the points off Chamois Niortais

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad28 Sep 2026

A row about effort at Chamois Niortais

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Hervé Roger was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout28 Sep 2026

No hiding place for Marcel André

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Marcel André, and the manager let it.

The dugout28 Sep 2026

Guillaume Dufour: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑1, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

The dugout28 Sep 2026

Roger Caron gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Roger Caron is on it.

Squad28 Sep 2026

The weekend belonged to Nicolas Aubry

Player of the week, judged against every other man in the division. A small award, and one most careers never collect.

In brief