Laurent Croci (born 8 December 1964) is a French

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...

manager and former player, who last managed

FC Mulhouse Football Club de Mulhouse (; commonly referred to as FCM or simply Mulhouse) is a French association football club based in Mulhouse. The club was founded in 1893 and currently play in the Championnat National 3, the fifth level of French footb ...

Playing career

Croci was born in

Montbéliard Montbéliard (; traditional ) is a town in the Doubs Departments of France, department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté Regions of France, region in eastern France, about from the border with Switzerland. It is one of the two Subprefectures in F ...

Doubs Doubs (, ; ; frp, Dubs) is a department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in Eastern France. Named after the river Doubs, it had a population of 543,974 in 2019.Sochaux Sochaux () is a commune in the Doubs department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France. Geography Sochaux lies east of Montbéliard, and southeast of Paris. Population Inhabitants are known as ''Sochaliens''. Economy Soc ...

, featuring for the clubs 'B' team until he turned 18. Croci spent 10 years in the first team, before leaving for

Bordeaux Bordeaux ( , ; Gascon oc, Bordèu ; eu, Bordele; it, Bordò; es, Burdeos) is a port city on the river Garonne in the Gironde department, Southwestern France. It is the capital of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, as well as the prefectur ...

. Whilst at Bordeaux he won the

1995 UEFA Intertoto Cup The 1995 UEFA Intertoto Cup was the first edition of the tournament administered by the UEFA. It saw Strasbourg and Bordeaux win their semi-finals to advance to the UEFA Cup, the latter eventually finishing runners-up. It also saw English repre ...

and played in the

1996 UEFA Cup Final The 1996 UEFA Cup Final was a two-legged association football match contested by Bayern Munich of Germany and Bordeaux of France to determine the winner of the 1995–96 UEFA Cup. This was the only UEFA Cup final during the 1990s to not feature any ...

, and was cautioned in the first leg. After five years with Bordeaux, Croci spent time with Scottish side

Dundee Dundee (; sco, Dundee; gd, Dùn Dè or ) is Scotland's fourth-largest city and the 51st-most-populous built-up area in the United Kingdom. The mid-year population estimate for 2016 was , giving Dundee a population density of 2,478/km2 or ...

, before joining

Carlisle United Carlisle United Football Club ( , ) is a professional association football club based in Carlisle, Cumbria, England. The team compete in , the fourth tier of the English football league system. They have played their home games at Brunton Par ...

. However, he only played one game for each club, before he left for Swiss side Étoile Carouge. He returned to France to finish his career with amateur sides Lormont and Blanquefort, before managing the latter for the 2000–01 season.

External links

*
Profile on Croix de Savoie official site
1964 births Living people Sportspeople from Montbéliard French footballers FC Sochaux-Montbéliard players FC Girondins de Bordeaux players Carlisle United F.C. players Scottish Football League players Dundee F.C. players Ligue 1 players French football managers US Créteil-Lusitanos managers French people of Italian descent Stade Poitevin FC managers Entente SSG managers FC Mulhouse managers Association football defenders Footballers from Bourgogne-Franche-Comté French expatriate sportspeople in England French expatriate sportspeople in Scotland Expatriate footballers in England Expatriate footballers in Scotland French expatriate footballers Expatriate footballers in Switzerland French expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland {{france-footy-defender-1960s-stub