 After a loan to FC Girondins de Bordeaux, Martins rejoined Strasbourg until 2004, and closed out his career with Clermont Foot.Martins earned his first cap for France on 27 March 1993, in a 1–0 win against Austria.He represented the nation at UEFA Euro 1996 and made a total of 14 appearances, but his international career was vastly undermined by the emergence of Zinedine Zidane.