Joël Cloarec

French football manager and former player
Joël Cloarec
Personal information
Date of birth (1966-02-05) 5 February 1966 (age 58)
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
0000–1984 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]

Club career

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]

International career

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]

Post-playing career

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]

Honours

Manager

Vitré

Notes

  1. ^ Statistics for the 1986–87 season are missing.

References

  1. ^ "Joël CLOAREC". PSG1970.net (in French). Retrieved 21 August 2001.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i Joël Cloarec at FootballDatabase.eu
  3. ^ a b c "Joel CLOAREC". Histoire du PSG (in French). 30 May 2017. Retrieved 21 August 2021.
  4. ^ a b c d e "Cloarec Joël". Paris.canal-historique (in French). 12 February 2013. Retrieved 21 August 2021.
  5. ^ a b c "Joël CLOAREC". PSG70 (in French). Retrieved 21 August 2021.

External links

  • Joël Cloarec at WorldFootball.net