Joël Cloarec
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 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.[citation needed] As a player, he was a forward.[2]
Club career
[edit]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.[2] In 1991, Cloarec left Brest to sign for Châteauroux, where he would spend a season before joining Paris Saint-Germain (PSG).[3] 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.[3] He holds the record for the shortest amount of time played for PSG.[2] 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.[citation needed] 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.[3]
In 1996, Cloarec signed for Guingamp's neighbors Stade Briochin.[4] After just a season in Saint-Brieuc, he moved on to Vitré, the club at which he would eventually retire in 2002.[4]
International career
[edit]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.[3]
Post-playing career
[edit]From 2000 to 2002, Cloarec was a player-manager for Vitré.[4] 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.[citation needed]
During the 2013–14 season, Cloarec was the manager of La Vitréenne.[3] However, he left that role at the end of the season to become a youth coach for the club.[citation needed] In 2016, after two years as a youth coach, he returned to manage the first team for one season.[citation needed] 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.[citation needed] In 2018, he stopped being assistant manager in order to be solely the sporting director.[citation needed] In 2020, after two years as sporting director, Cloarec returned to coach La Vitréenne.[citation needed]
Honours
[edit]Manager
[edit]Vitré
Notes
[edit]- ^ Statistics for the 1986–87 season are missing.
References
[edit]- ^ "Joël CLOAREC". PSG1970.net (in French). Retrieved 21 August 2001.
- ^ a b c "Joel CLOAREC". Histoire du PSG (in French). 30 May 2017. Retrieved 21 August 2021.
- ^ a b c d e "Cloarec Joël". Paris.canal-historique (in French). 12 February 2013. Retrieved 21 August 2021.
- ^ a b c "Joël CLOAREC". PSG70 (in French). Retrieved 21 August 2021.
External links
[edit]- Joël Cloarec at WorldFootball.net
- 1966 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Quimper
- Footballers from Finistère
- French men's footballers
- Men's association football forwards
- Brittany men's international footballers
- US Concarneau players
- Stade Brestois 29 players
- LB Châteauroux players
- Paris Saint-Germain FC players
- Valenciennes FC players
- En Avant Guingamp players
- Stade Briochin players
- French Division 4 (1978–1993) players
- French Division 3 (1971–1993) players
- Ligue 1 players
- Ligue 2 players
- Championnat National 3 players
- French football managers
- Men's association football player-managers
- La Vitréenne FC managers
- 20th-century French sportsmen