Joël Cloarec

French footballer and manager (born 1966)

Joël CloarecPersonal information

Date of birth|  (1966-02-05) 5 February 1966 (age 59)
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.[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

* Championnat de France Amateur 2: 2004–05 [fr][citation needed]

## Notes

[edit]

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

## References

[edit]

1. ^ "Joël CLOAREC". PSG1970.net (in French). Archived from the original on 21 August 2021. Retrieved 21 August 2001.
2. ^ a b c "Joel CLOAREC". Histoire du PSG (in French). 30 May 2017. Retrieved 21 August 2021.
3. ^ a b c d e "Cloarec Joël". Paris.canal-historique (in French). 12 February 2013. Retrieved 21 August 2021.
4. ^ a b c "Joël CLOAREC". PSG70 (in French). Retrieved 21 August 2021.

## External links

[edit]

* Joël Cloarec at WorldFootball.net

*[Apps]: League appearances
*[Gls]: League goals