Toulouse international full-back Maxime Médard will retire at the end of the season, the 35-year-old announced on his Twitter account on Friday. “I am here to announce that a page is turning for me: I made the decision to stop my career at the end of this season”, explained Médard (63 selections between 2008 and 2019).
Arrived at Stade Toulouse in 2000, he won the Top 14 five times (2008, 2011, 2012, 2019 and 2021) and three times the European Cup (2005, 2010, 2021). Médard, author of 14 tries in Blues, also reached the final of the 2011 World Cup in New Zealand, lost to the All Blacks (8-7).
The winger or fullback is a one-club man like Fulgence Ouedraogo at Montpellier or Aurélien Rougerie at Clermont before him. “I had the incredible chance, throughout my career, to live incredible moments with the Toulouse stadium and the French team: moments of glory, of doubt too… Victories, defeats but in any case , I regret nothing. Today, I am starting a new chapter, necessarily on new ground”, he further specified, referring to “projects that resemble me”.
This season, Médard has played 15 Top 14 games, including 14 as a starter. He also played two European Cup matches.