Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 5 February 1966 | ||
Place of birth | Quimper, France | ||
Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||
Position(s) | Forward [1] | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | La Vitréenne (manager) | ||
Youth career | |||
–1984 | La Forêt-Fouesnant | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | ( Gls) |
1984–1986 | Concarneau | ||
1986–1991 | Brest | 91+ [a] | (6+) |
1991–1992 | Châteauroux | 11 | (3) |
1992–1994 | Paris Saint-Germain | 1 | (0) |
1993–1994 | → Valenciennes (loan) | 38 | (0) |
1994–1996 | Guingamp | 36 | (0) |
1996–1997 | Stade Briochin | 23 | (1) |
1997–2002 | Vitré | ||
International career | |||
1988 | Brittany | 1 | (1) |
Managerial career | |||
2000–2011 | Vitré | ||
2011–2013 | Bonchamp | ||
2013–2014 | La Vitréenne | ||
2016–2017 | La Vitréenne | ||
2017–2018 | La Vitréenne (assistant) | ||
2020– | La Vitréenne | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Joël Cloarec (born 5 February 1966) is a French football manager and former player who is the head coach of French club La Vitréenne. [2] As a player, he was a forward. [3]
Cloarec made his first steps as a pro with Concarneau in 1984. He would go on to play for the club until 1986, when he joined fellow Breton club Brest. [3] In 1991, Cloarec left Brest to sign for Châteauroux, where he would spend a season before joining Paris Saint-Germain (PSG). [4] At PSG, he was a victim of tough competition, and he only played one minute the entire season, as he was substituted on for David Ginola during a 2–1 Division 1 victory away to Saint-Étienne on 8 August 1992. [4] He holds the record for the shortest amount of time played for PSG. [3] After the end of the 1992–93 season, Cloarec was sent out on loan to Valenciennes, where he played 38 league games in the Division 2. [2] Following his loan stint, he returned to Paris, but the PSG manager at the time, Artur Jorge, decided not to keep him; therefore, he returned to his native Brittany to play for Guingamp. [4]
In 1996, Cloarec signed for Guingamp's neighbors Stade Briochin. [5] After just a season in Saint-Brieuc, he moved on to Vitré, the club at which he would eventually retire in 2002. [5]
Cloarec played one match for Brittany regional team in 1988. He scored one of the goals in a 6–2 victory over in the United States in an indoor setting. [4]
From 2000 to 2002, Cloarec was a player-manager for Vitré. [5] In 2002, he retired from football to take on the full role of manager at the club, a role in which he would stay in until 2011. Cloarec coached Vitré to two Coupe de France round of 16 appearances – one in 2006 and another in 2009. In 2011, he became the head coach of Bonchamp. [2]
During the 2013–14 season, Cloarec was the manager of La Vitréenne. [4] However, he left that role at the end of the season to become a youth coach for the club. [2] In 2016, after two years as a youth coach, he returned to manage the first team for one season. [2] In the 2017–18 season, Cloarec held the position of assistant manager in the first team of La Vitréenne, while simultaneously being the club's sporting director. [2] In 2018, he stopped being assistant manager in order to be solely the sporting director. [2] In 2020, after two years as sporting director, Cloarec returned to coach La Vitréenne. [2]
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