Paul Clement (soccer coach)

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Paul Clement
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Paul Clement (2013)
Personnel
birthday January 8, 1972
place of birth ReadingEngland
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2009-2011 Chelsea FC (assistant coach)
2011–2012 Blackburn Rovers (Assistant Coach)
2012-2013 Paris Saint-Germain (assistant coach)
2013-2015 Real Madrid (assistant coach)
2015-2016 Derby County
2016-2017 FC Bayern Munich (assistant coach)
2017 Swansea City
2018 Reading FC
2020– Cercle Bruges

Paul Clement (born January 8, 1972 in Reading ) is an English football coach . He assisted Carlo Ancelotti at Chelsea , Paris Saint-Germain , Real Madrid and Bayern Munich . From January to December 2017, he was the head coach at Swansea City . He holds the UEFA Pro license as a football coach.

Career

Paul Clement comes from a soccer family. His father Dave Clement played 472 times for Queens Park Rangers and five times for the English national football team . His brother Neil played more than 250 games for West Bromwich Albion . However, Paul took a different route. He studied at St Mary's University, Twickenham , before taking a job at London club Wimbledon FC in the mid-1990s .

In the further course of his career he worked part-time at the Chelsea Competence Center , as a physical education teacher and for a short time at Fulham FC . However, since his return to Chelsea in 2007, his rise began. Clement worked his way up through the junior levels before contracting to Guus Hiddink in 2009 and then being promoted to his assistant coach by Carlo Ancelotti. Since then, he and Ancelotti have enjoyed personal friendship as well as professional commitment.

Paul Clement had his first full-time job at Fulham FC. He has also worked with the Blackburn Rovers team and has coached Ireland's U-21s . He was the head coach of Derby County during the 2015-16 season . From July to December 2016 he was Carlo Ancelotti's assistant coach at FC Bayern Munich , before being appointed head coach of the Welsh Premier League club Swansea City in January 2017 .

On Jan. 3, 2017 Paul Clement new team manager was Swansea City in the Premier League . He was given a two and a half year contract until the end of the 2018/19 season. On December 20, 2017, Clement was released early. On March 23, 2018, Clement was introduced as the successor to Jaap Stam at the relegation-threatened second division club Reading FC . Clement successfully kept the club in the non-relegation places until the end of the 2017/18 season , but the start of the following season 2018/19 failed and Clement became on December 6, 2018, after only four wins in the first 20 match days and the club only because of the better goal difference was not on a relegation place, dismissed.

Only in July 2020 did he get a new job as a trainer. Clement signed a three-year contract with the Belgian first division company, Cercle Bruges .

Awards

Premier League : Coach of the Month (January 2017)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Paul Clement . on transfermarkt.de , accessed on January 6, 2017.
  2. David Clement . England Football Online, accessed January 6, 2017.
  3. ^ Center of Excellence. Chelsea FC, archived from the original on July 10, 2016 ; accessed on January 6, 2017 (English).
  4. Bradley Poole: Who Is Paul Clement And Why Is He Linked With The Baggies Job? soccerlens.com, December 17, 2013, accessed January 6, 2017.
  5. ^ Andy Mitten: Paul Clement quietly climbing the ladder . The National (Abu Dhabi) , January 27, 2014, accessed January 6, 2017.
  6. FC Bayern: Paul Clement and Hermann Gerland assist Ancelotti: Bayern's coaching team is complete . Sport1.de , June 21, 2016, accessed on January 6, 2017.
    Gerland will succeed Clement as the first assistant coach at FC Bayern . FC Bayern Munich press release, January 3, 2017, accessed on January 6, 2017.
  7. ^ Clement confirmed as new Swans head coach . Swansea City Press Release , January 3, 2017, accessed January 6, 2017.
  8. ^ Bayern Munich: Ancelotti assistant Paul Clement new manager at Swansea City . SID article at Eurosport , January 3, 2017, accessed January 6, 2017.
  9. bbc.com: Paul Clement: Swansea sack manager after less than a year in charge (Dec. 20, 2017) , accessed March 23, 2018
  10. bbc.com: Reading: Paul Clement named new manager at Championship club (March 23, 2018) , accessed March 23, 2018
  11. bbc.com: Paul Clement: Reading sack manager after less than nine months (December 6, 2018) , accessed December 7, 2018
  12. Welkom Coach. Cercle Bruges, July 3, 2020, accessed July 9, 2020 (Dutch).
  13. tz.de: FC Bayern: Ex-assistant coach Clement receives award article from February 10, 2017