Clubs:
AJ Auxerre, AS Roma
UEFA honours
UEFA European Under-21 Championship:
runner-up 2002
UEFA European Under-18 Championship:
winner 2000
? Born in Toulouse, Mexes joined Auxerre's youth development programme and made his
senior debut at the age of 17
in November 1999 against Troyes AC (0-1).
? A winner of the
European U18 title
with France in 2000, he was a runner-up at the U21 tournament two years later and won his
first senior cap
as a late substitute in a UEFA EURO 2004 qualifier against Malta (4-0) on 16 October 2002.
? Formed a youthful and fruitful central defensive partnership at Auxerre with U21 partner Jean-Alain Boumsong, making 133 appearances and scoring?seven goals before a contractually complex 2004 switch to Roma; won the
2003 French Cup
with Auxerre and the
FIFA Confederations Cup
with France a few weeks later.
? Despite becoming a regular in Luciano Spalletti's Roma side, the elegant centre-back was
not called up by France coach Raymond Domenech for the 2006 FIFA World Cup, UEFA EURO 2008 or the 2010 World Cup
?? but did start the first six games of new coach Laurent Blanc's reign in autumn 2010.
? A
Coppa Italia winner in 2007 and 2008
, he finished as a Serie A runner-up with Roma for the fourth time in 2010; took his cumulative tally of UEFA club competition appearances to 66 in the 2010/11 UEFA Champions League group stage, in which he scored his
first European goal
? in a 2-1 home win against CFR 1907 Cluj.