Pep Clotet

Pep Clotet
Personal information
Full name Josep Clotet Ruiz
Date of birth (1977-04-28) 28 April 1977
Place of birth Barcelona, Spain
Club information
Current team
 Oxford United (manager)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Igualada
Teams managed
2001–2003 Cornellà
2004–2006 Espanyol (youth)
2006 Figueres
2008–2009 Espanyol (youth)
2009 Espanyol B
2010 Malmö FF (assistant)
2011 Halmstad
2012 Viking (coach)
2012−2013 Málaga B
2013–2015 Swansea City (assistant)
2016–2017 Leeds United (assistant)
2017– Oxford United
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

Josep 'Pep' Clotet Ruiz (born 28 April 1977) is a Spanish football coach, currently in charge of English club Oxford United.

In addition of working as assistant at several clubs, he managed Cornellà, Figueres, Espanyol B, Halmstads and Málaga B.

Football career

Early years

Born in Barcelona, Catalonia,[1] Clotet only appeared for local amateurs CF Igualada as a player.[2] Still in his 20s he became a coach, starting with UE Cornellà then moving to RCD Espanyol's youth teams.[3]

Clotet began the 2006–07 season with another side in his native region, UE Figueres, being fired after only nine games as they eventually suffered relegation from Segunda División B.[4] He subsequently returned to his previous club, still in charge of the youths.[3]

Clotet returned to senior football in the 2009–10 campaign, with Espanyol's reserves.[5] He met the same fate as in his previous experience, being sacked following the seventh round and with the team also being relegated from the third level.

Sweden and Norway

Clotet worked in Sweden for two years, starting as an assistant to Roland Nilsson at Malmö FF, who won the 2010 Allsvenskan championship.[3] He then joined fellow league club Halmstads BK as head coach,[6] finishing 16th and last in the 2011 Allsvenskan.

On 20 September 2011, Clotet agreed to join Viking FK as coach in new manager Åge Hareide's backroom staff for the 2012 season.[7] After Hareide was sacked and Kjell Jonevret was appointed as his replacement, he left to look for a new challenge.[8]

Málaga

On 11 July 2012, Clotet was appointed at Málaga CF's reserves in Tercera División, where he helped develop several players that would reach the first team shortly after, a situation mainly aided by the Andalusians' unstable economic situation.[9] He left the club after only one season, not being able to attain promotion.

Swansea City

On 19 November 2013, Clotet was appointed academy consultant at Swansea City as part of Michael Laudrup's coaching staff.[10] In May of the following year, he was promoted to assistant manager under Garry Monk.[3] In November 2015, Clotet was offered the manager's job at Football League Championship side Brentford, but rejected the offer out of loyalty to Monk.[11][12] He left his post at the Welsh club on 9 December of that year alongside first-team coaches James Beattie and Kristian O'Leary, following the sacking of Monk.[13][14]

Leeds United

On 13 June 2016, Clotet joined Monk's staff at Leeds United as assistant head coach.[15] On 25 May 2017, after the pair led the team to the seventh position, the latter resigned.[16][17] On 19 June 2017, after new manager Thomas Christiansen arrived at the club alongside his assistant Julio Bañuelos, Clotet advised director of football Victor Orta that he wanted a new challenge.[18]

Oxford United

On 1 July 2017, Clotet was appointed manager of Oxford United.[1]

Media

Clotet worked as a pundit on Sky Sports' La Liga review, and also wrote a column for daily newspaper Marca.[19]

References

  1. 1 2 "Pep Clotet becomes Oxford United manager". Oxford United F.C. 1 July 2017. Retrieved 1 July 2017.
  2. ↑ Steel, Rory (28 July 2017). "Leeds United v Oxford United - All you need to know about the Whites’ final pre-season friendly". Yorkshire Evening Post. Retrieved 2 August 2017.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Staff profiles". Swansea City A.F.C. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 2 August 2017.
  4. ↑ "Temporada 2006–2007" [2006–2007 season] (in Catalan). UE Figueres. Retrieved 19 November 2015.
  5. ↑ "El RCD Espanyol "B" de Josep Clotet regresa a la actividad" [Josep Clotet's RCD Espanyol "B" returns to active] (in Spanish). Join Futbol. 22 July 2009. Retrieved 13 September 2013.
  6. ↑ "Ny tränare: Josep Clotet Ruiz" [New coach: Josep Clotet Ruiz] (in Swedish). Halmstads BK. 5 December 2010. Retrieved 5 December 2010.
  7. ↑ "Spanjol blir ny Viking-trener" [Viking hires Spaniard as new coach]. Verdens Gang (in Norwegian). 20 September 2011. Retrieved 10 February 2012.
  8. ↑ "Pep lämnar Viking Stavanger" [Pep leaves Viking Stavanger]. Sydsvenskan (in Swedish). 20 June 2012. Retrieved 20 June 2012.
  9. ↑ "Las tres sorpresas del arranque liguero" [The three league surprises so far]. Diario Sur (in Spanish). 21 August 2013. Retrieved 13 September 2013.
  10. ↑ "Swans get a Pep-talk". Swansea City A.F.C. 19 November 2013. Archived from the original on 28 May 2017. Retrieved 2 August 2017.
  11. ↑ "Dean Smith leaves Walsall to take Brentford job". BBC Sport. 30 November 2015. Retrieved 30 November 2015.
  12. ↑ "Pep Clotet rejected offers to be Brentford boss out of loyalty to Garry Monk two weeks before he was sacked as Swansea assistant". Daily Mail. 11 December 2015. Retrieved 11 December 2015.
  13. ↑ "Swansea coaches leave club following departure of manager Garry Monk". The Guardian. 10 December 2015. Retrieved 11 December 2015.
  14. ↑ "Swansea City: Pep Clotet, James Beattie and Kris O'Leary leave club". BBC Sport. 10 December 2015. Retrieved 11 December 2015.
  15. ↑ "Duo join backroom staff". Leeds United F.C. 13 June 2016. Retrieved 13 June 2016.
  16. ↑ "Garry Monk resigns as Leeds United head coach with Aitor Karanka job swap on the cards". The Daily Telegraph. 25 May 2017. Retrieved 3 June 2017.
  17. ↑ "Garry Monk: Leeds United head coach resigns after one season". BBC Sport. 25 May 2017. Retrieved 3 June 2017.
  18. ↑ "Thomas Christiansen | The first press conference". Leeds United F.C. 19 June 2017. Retrieved 19 June 2017.
  19. ↑ "Conte, el 3–4–3 y un ataque para ganar la Premier / Conte's 3–4–3 & his master plan to secure the Premier League crown". Marca (in Spanish). 10 May 2017. Retrieved 3 June 2017.
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