Frédéric Maillard

Left Wingback - Chamois Niortais
6 Sep 2026
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Marked for Frédéric Maillard

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The Chamois Niortais Herald

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad10 Aug 2026

A knee injury of the worst kind for Bruno Muller

127 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Chamois Niortais lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match8 Aug 2026

Chamois Niortais tear Sochaux apart

Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 5‑0 against Sochaux, and it could have been more.

Squad10 Aug 2026

3 goals for Emmanuel Meyer

The match ball belongs to Emmanuel Meyer, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.

Player ratings10 Aug 2026

Both of them Yves Colin's — 8.13

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.13, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Player ratings10 Aug 2026

Frédéric Maillard, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 7.81

A mark of 7.81 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Market10 Aug 2026

Paris FC join the queue for Marc Vidal

Add another name to the list: Paris FC have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Marc Vidal. The answer from Chamois Niortais has not changed — yet.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Arnaud Deschamps stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Arnaud Deschamps and Chamois Niortais agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Chamois Niortais

Emmanuel Meyer was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Player ratings10 Aug 2026

Emmanuel Meyer was on a different afternoon to everybody else

9.12. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

In brief

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The Chamois Niortais Herald

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Market3 Aug 2026

Emmanuel Meyer wants more than Chamois Niortais are offering

“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Emmanuel Meyer 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.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Yves Colin 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.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Bruno Muller signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Bruno Muller commits to Chamois Niortais for another 2 years.

Match1 Aug 2026

Yves Colin sends Chamois Niortais past Stade Lavallois

It finished 2‑0, and it was Yves Colin’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Chamois Niortais.

Player ratings3 Aug 2026

Jean-Luc Fontaine was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.21. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Player ratings3 Aug 2026

A masterclass from Yves Colin

Marked 8.01 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Arnaud Deschamps asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

Player ratings3 Aug 2026

Frédéric Maillard runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief