Joël Cloarec

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]

Joël Cloarec
Personal information
Date of birth (1966-02-05) 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
0000–1984 La Forêt-Fouesnant
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1984–1986 Concarneau
1986–1991 Brest 91+[lower-alpha 1] (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

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. Joël Cloarec at FootballDatabase.eu
  3. "Joel CLOAREC". Histoire du PSG (in French). Retrieved 21 August 2021.
  4. "Cloarec Joël". Paris.canal-historique (in French). 12 February 2013. Retrieved 21 August 2021.
  5. "Joël CLOAREC". PSG70 (in French). Retrieved 21 August 2021.
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