Club Career
Lacroix began his career in the junior ranks of Auxerre. In 2003, he signed with Lille OSC and worked his way up through the ranks into the first team, signing a professional contract in 2005. He made his first appearance for the Lille first team, playing in a UEFA Intertoto Cup match against FC Dynamo Minsk in 2004. He was loaned to Championnat National side L'Entente SSG for the 2006-07 season where he made 23 appearances. After a stint in Greece, he tried his adventure in Singapore by signing to Etoile FC the first French and European team to play their trade in Singapore's S. League.
With this club, he won the League Cup and the Singapore championship title in 2010. They set a new record in the league, having been undefeated for 1065 minutes or more than 11 consecutive matches.
In June 2011 he joined top Singapore club Tampines Rovers and with them he won the championship title a second time in Singapore, ending a seven-year title drought for the Rovers. With this new success, he became the first player in the history of S-League to win the league title both with a foreign franchise (Etoile FC 2010) and a local franchise (Tampines Rovers2011).
In January 2012 he signed a 3 year contract with his former team the Etoile FC. A few days before the championship began the franchising in disagreement with the Football federation of Singapore decided to retire from professional championship.He went on to be the under 8 coach of l'AJ Auxerre during one year and he now is a youth coach for Etoile FC.
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