Josep Clotet Ruiz was born on 28 April 1977 and is a Spanish football coach who is the head coach of Russian Premier League club Torpedo Moscow.
23 Facts About Pep Clotet
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Pep Clotet became a coach while still in his 20s, starting with UE Cornella then moving to RCD Espanyol's youth teams.
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Pep Clotet met the same fate as in his previous experience: he was sacked following the seventh round, and the team were relegated.
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Pep Clotet worked in Sweden for two years, starting as assistant to Roland Nilsson at Malmo FF, who won the 2010 Allsvenskan title.
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Pep Clotet then joined fellow league club Halmstads BK as head coach, finishing 16th and last in the 2011 Allsvenskan.
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On 20 September 2011, Pep Clotet joined Viking FK as coach in new manager Age Hareide's backroom staff for the 2012 Norwegian Premier League season.
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Pep Clotet left the club after only one season, not being able to attain promotion.
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On 19 November 2013, Pep Clotet was appointed academy consultant at Swansea City as part of Michael Laudrup's coaching staff.
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In November 2015, Pep Clotet was offered the manager's job at Championship club Brentford, but rejected the offer out of loyalty to Monk.
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On 13 June 2016, Pep Clotet joined Monk's staff at Leeds United as assistant head coach.
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Pep Clotet was appointed manager of League One club Oxford United on 1 July 2017.
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Pep Clotet was sacked on 22 January 2018, with a record of 12 wins from 36 matches in charge.
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When Monk took over as manager of Championship club Birmingham City on 4 March 2018, Pep Clotet was appointed as his assistant.
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Pep Clotet became caretaker head coach in June 2019 after Monk was sacked; ahead of the November meeting between Birmingham and Monk's new club, Sheffield Wednesday, Monk claimed he had made an "error of judgment" in working with Clotet, suggested he was untrustworthy, and refused to shake his hand.
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On 5 February 2021, Pep Clotet was hired as new head coach of Italian Serie B club Brescia, a club owned by Massimo Cellino, his former chairman at Leeds United.
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Pep Clotet guided Brescia to qualification to the promotion playoffs, where they were eliminated in the first round by Cittadella.
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On 2 July 2021, Pep Clotet was officially unveiled as the new head coach of Italian Serie B club SPAL.
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Pep Clotet was removed from his managerial duties on 5 January 2022, leaving SPAL three points above the relegation zone.
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On 18 June 2022, Pep Clotet agreed to return to Cellino's Brescia, signing a two-year deal with the Rondinelle.
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On 16 January 2023 Pep Clotet was reinstated as head coach with immediate effect, only to be dismissed less than a month later, on 6 February, after he failed to improve the team results.
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Pep Clotet was appointed head coach of Russian Premier League club Torpedo Moscow on 28 March 2023.
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On 16 April 2023, in his third game in charge, against FC Spartak Moscow, Pep Clotet was sent off after gesturing at the referee following Spartak's third penalty kick in the first half.
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Pep Clotet worked as a pundit on Sky Sports' La Liga review, and wrote a column for daily newspaper Marca.