 Perez retired in 1997 at 34, after two years in the Chinese Super League with Shanghai Shenhua FC.Perez earned the first of his 22 caps for the France national team on 19 November 1988, starting and scoring in a 2–3 away defeat against Yugoslavia for the 1990 FIFA World Cup qualifiers.Selected for the UEFA Euro 1992 finals by coach Michel Platini, he played three incomplete games in an eventual group exit in Sweden.