Jérôme Rothen

Jérôme René Marcel Rothen, born on 31 March 1978, is a French former professional footballer who played as a winger and is now a football pundit. He trained at the Clairefontaine academy, started with Caen, moved to Troyes and then to Monaco in 2002, helping the club reach the 2004 Champions League final, which it lost to Porto. He joined Paris Saint-Germain in 2004, the club he had supported as a boy, and was known as a skilled winger who specialised in free kicks, crossing and passing. He later had a loan at Rangers, a spell with Ankaragücü and won the Ligue 2 title with Bastia in 2011-12 before returning to Caen and retiring on 1 January 2014. He won 13 caps for France, played at UEFA Euro 2004 and won the 2003 FIFA Confederations Cup.