Claude Lowitz (born 29 May 1962) is a French former professional

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player and manager. As a player, he was a defender.

Club career

Lowitz played for ten different clubs during his career. Those included

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Metz Metz ( , , lat, Divodurum Mediomatricorum, then ) is a city in northeast France located at the confluence of the Moselle and the Seille rivers. Metz is the prefecture of the Moselle department and the seat of the parliament of the Grand E ...

Paris Saint-Germain Paris Saint-Germain Football Club (), commonly referred to as Paris Saint-Germain, Paris, Paris SG or simply PSG is a professional football club based in Paris, France. They compete in Ligue 1, the top division of French football. As Fr ...

Marseille Marseille ( , , ; also spelled in English as Marseilles; oc, Marselha ) is the prefecture of the French department of Bouches-du-Rhône and capital of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Situated in the camargue region of southern Franc ...

Montpellier Montpellier (, , ; oc, Montpelhièr ) is a city in southern France near the Mediterranean Sea. One of the largest urban centres in the region of Occitania (administrative region), Occitania, Montpellier is the prefecture of the Departments of ...

Nantes Nantes (, , ; Gallo: or ; ) is a city in Loire-Atlantique on the Loire, from the Atlantic coast. The city is the sixth largest in France, with a population of 314,138 in Nantes proper and a metropolitan area of nearly 1 million inhabita ...

Pau FC Pau Football Club (, Bearnese ), known simply as Pau, is a French professional association football club based in Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, capital of Béarn. They compete in Ligue 2, the second tier of French football. Pau FC were found ...

, Cahors FC,

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, and

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. In 1984 with Metz, he notably featured in a 4–1 win over

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at the

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in the

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first round, eliminating the Spanish side 6–5 on aggregate. During the 1985–86 season with Paris Saint-Germain, he won the Division 1 title.

International career

Lowitz played one match for the

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in 1987.

Post-playing career

Having retired from football five years earlier, Lowitz became the manager of Saint-Pierroise in

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in 2001; however, he left this role in 2002. From January to July 2006, he was the manager of

China League Two The Chinese Football Association Division Two League (Simplified Chinese: 中国足球协会乙级联赛), or China League Two, is the third tier league of the People's Republic of China. The league is under the auspices of the Chinese Football As ...

club Shanghai Dongya. He left that position to work for the youth academy of the club at the

Genbao Football Base Genbao Football Base (Simplified Chinese: 上海根宝足球基地) is the training ground of Shanghai Port F.C. and home to its youth academy. Located in Chongming County, Shanghai, China, the base is named after its founder and owner, Xu Genbao ...

from 2006 to 2008. After leaving his academy role at Shanghai Dongya in 2008, Lowitz worked for a football academy in Réunion.

Honours

Toulouse * Division 2: 1981–82 Paris Saint-Germain * Division 1: 1985–86

References

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